A few years ago John Hunter posted on Daffnet some comments about gold and silver dusted perianths. https://daffnet.org/gold-and-silver-dusted-perianths/ He referred to a short article in The Daffodil Journal Vol. 48 #4, June 2012 p.308 about what causes diamond dusting, which…
The project of breeding highly bred modern daffodils towards miniatures is starting to yield promising results. This one started miniature but is now 60mm This little one is completely unexpected. It is a first flower and it is hard to…
Fortescue is my favorite double. Its pollen (almost certainly) onto Nynja gave Iterate I think out of an interest in Seraglio, Kung Fu (2Y-R) was crossed with Decoy (01_236). Florence Joy 2W-W crossed with 01_236 gave 06_213. Iterate is so…
Some of the flowers in the Canberra show will warm hearts elsewhere. One of the sensations was a superb smooth specimen of Mesa Verde shown by Chris Ryan. Graham showed some pictures of some of my splits. Champion div.11 was…
Lot’s of deformities can be seen in daffodils and only very occasionally would one wish to stabilise such features. Yesterday I spotted one that looks quite attractive to my eye. It’s been separated out in the hope that it is…
For me a beautiful pedigree is one that transfers good characteristics to surprising places. In this case it is pink from the world class 2Y-R Redlands Too. Turakina is a David Bell 1W-Y (introduced in 1984, not West and Fell…