Author: Lawrence Trevanion, Australia

Autumn 17#4

Hi Christiaan, I am delighted by your seedlings, particularly if they are happy in your impossible conditions. The season progresses here with the first viridiflorus hybrid flowering. Bill Welch’s earliest Autumn Colors  (09_13T) is flowering as are a couple of…

Autumn 17#3

Thanks everyone for the show photos. Apologies Jaydee, I don’t know the answers to your questions. The National Daffodil Association of Australia may eventually be a good source of information. http://www.ndaa.org.au/ The ACT/NSW Daffodil Association will be involved. I’m not…

Autumn 17#2

Some more elegans hybrids are flowering. The elegans scent, which I like, is now quite powerful.   My first new seedling for 2017 is the 8W-Y. It is not perfect but it is a step toward the intended goal –…

First florets

My daffodil season began this morning with 3 daffodils flowering. Sometimes tazettas flower here in February. This year they are relatively late, presumably because we have had a long warm summer without strong temperature or moisture signals to initiate the…

Final flower

It has been an idyllic spring here with mild temperatures and regular rain. This has made the last flower very late indeed: – a species poeticus grown from seed from Steve Vinisky. It is very much later that all the…

Final Pick

Last week was the last significant pick of daffodils for the season. Just because it was possible a few of these were put in the Canberra iris show. Typically late flowers do poorly here and many from the N. hemisphere…