This was a banner year for 1st year blooms. From 2013 up to 2018 seedlings bloomed for the 1st time. I selected maybe 25 and will post the best. The photos show the 2010 grand parents. They produced many unremarkable…
1st year blooms
Author: Bill Carter
Started breeding in 2009. Carters Daffodils currently selling newly introduced bulbs breed by Nial Watson and Graham Phillips.
Clay Higgins Seedling – Mismarked so I need help
Clay sorry you are under the weather and not able to garden as we all like to. I just had a great Clay Higgins seedling bloom but it is the incorect classification. When sent to me it was marked 14-28…
Identification of a WA state Historic?
It’s raining so I’m stuck inside – Hybridizer Question – How do you keep records??
I know may hybridizers keep a hybridization book to record crosses. Many hybridizers got started before computers were a way of life. I began keeping hardcopy records 12 years ago but also kept an excel spreadsheet on all my bulb…
New 1st year blooms. What you can get from Pacific Rim 2Y-YYR x Magician 2W-R
In 2013 (I was just getting started in hybridizing) I was crossing things that I had. I was not following the “rule of thumb” of crossing similar colored flowers. I now generally cross yellow with yellow and white with white…
Historic Daffodil but I’m not sure what it is?
Dug these at a WA state homestead over 100 years old. It was a bunch of 4-Y-Y most in the bunch were kind of garden quality but one bloom looked quite good. The Perianth is twisted and the cup was…