Keira Bulbs has quite a few nice miniatures and a small number of intermediates flowering at the moment. They would be described as very very early flowering. We have had one of our coldest winters in years but it has…
Hi We have had a ‘big’ year in terms of new giant bulbocodiums flowering. The other thing that has occurred is bulbocodiums growing on quite tall stems. Nothing miniature about either. Ironically, we have a few feral N. tenuifolius but…
Hi I was a little taken aback when I found this miniature semi-double flowering in our daffodil paddock. It is one of Rod Barwick’s seedlings (Pink China x Swagger). The breeding makes me wonder where the doubling comes from.
by Graham Fleming, Australia • • Comments Off on A visit to Tony Davis’s home and daffodil patch at Quindalup Farm
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Hi A few members of the Daffodil Association of NSW and the ACT were fortunate enough to visit Tony Davis and Maureen Purtel’s home in Bowral and Tony’s daffodil patch at Quindalup Farm. I gather there is a third site…
Miniatures are hotly contested at the Canberra Show because there are two major miniature hybridisers in the area. Keira Bulbs and Lawrence Trevanion. Lawrence prevailed in the Glenbrook Bulb Farm Prize for Miniatures this year. Keira picked up the Champion…