Hi Everyone. I visited my property at Yass today having not seen it for months due to the lockdown. This year the daffodils “growing wild” had to fend for themselves unseen by me. The kangaroos are a disaster, but for…
Yass 2021
Author: Lawrence Trevanion, Australia
Winter bulbocodiums
Tazettas and the jonquil/viridiflorus hybrids like protection, so for me winter is bulbocodium season. This one may have an intersectional bulbocodium hybrid as a pollen parent. This one is Gold Step x Viriquilla The first of this type of hybrid,…
Rebloom in a paperwhite
A question put on Daffnet from Benjamin Whitacre about repeat flowering daffodils led to an interesting private correspondence. I have tried here to organise and add to my thoughts and observations from that exchange. It is not uncommon for daffodils…
20 years wait
Thanks everyone for the photos and reports and congratulations to John Reed. Way back in 1999 some N. broussonetii seed generously sent to me by Harold Koopowitz was sown. Now, after 20 years waiting, it has finally flowered. Either it…
Autumn tazettas; seed
It is tazetta heaven here at the moment. The autumn has been very warm and very dry but, with the help of hand watering, the tazettas are thriving. Usually I like bright colors but this is my favorite at the…
Summer census
By the end of summer 7 tazetta varieties have flowered: – two 8Y-O, one 8W-Y and four 8W-O. The first, 14_05T is quite nice. It still has a few florets in flower. Six days later 16_01T opened. Two days ago…