Author: Sara Van Beck, Georgia

Help with oddball poet

All, The attached poet is from a old garden with scads of Ornatus, however some of the bulbs look like this What the heck is going on ?? I have images from 2014 of the same phenomenon; I don’t know…

Storage conditions, temperatures

All, Apologies for the late addition to the conversation What temperature, in F*, do folks store their bulbs? In Atlanta temps get into the low to mid 90s outside, and I store on my porch In Florida they stay in…

Research project paper on pollen

All, Was looking for something completely different, came across this: http://www.optics.rochester.edu/workgroups/cml/opt307/spr06/rui/Project%20html%20file1.html Pollens under Microscope, Rochester university (not sure which one) dept of chemical engineering even if yer not interested in hybridizing take a quick spin – the images of pollen…

Public preferences

All, I have found our bulb sales to be a very interesting gauge of public preferences for daffs. Yes, the Dutch figured out some time ago that big bold and brash catches the public’s eye, esp. if you’re buying to…

N. bicolor – commercial source?

All,  Does anyone know of a commercial source for N. bicolor (ever)?  I cannot recollect ever seeing it for sale but that’s just a comment on my memory.  Is it something that comes up on rare occasion, or -?  Thanks…