This has been one of the coldest winters in the Cincinnati area in years–they say since 1977-78. It’s been so cold that the temperature in my garage has been way below freezing for several days at a time. Well, I…
Winter woes
Author: Mary Lou Gripshover
Happy New Year
This is ‘Yuletide’, opening here about a week late, but close enough. I’m pleased because there are two blooms this year. I’ve tried to grow any number of bulbocodium and cantabricus species/hybrids, and they usually bloom once, and then ever…
5th International Conference on Comparative Biology of Monocotyledons
There was a notice in Cultivated Plant Taxonomy News, July 2013, that there would be a special Symposium on the systematics and population biology of Narcissus at this conference which was held at the New York Botanic Garden. Does anyone…
Blooms from the Northern Hemisphere
I’ve been away for awhile, and returned home yesterday to find blooms on two cultivars which Harold Koopowitz sent me several years ago. One is from ‘Glorious’ x elegans, and one is from N. t. aureus x miniatus (the one…
New addition to Dafflibrary
We’ve just added Roberta Watrous’s handwritten hybridizing records from 1944 to 1984 to www.DaffLibrary.org. You can find them under “Hybridizing, 1951 to 2000” and under “People.” Roberta was the first person in the U.S. who was seriously interested in miniatures and…
Daffodil Registration–a Reminder
Friends, If you live in the U.S, and are planning to register a daffodil name this year, you need to get your registration forms to me by June 15, for forwarding to the RHS by June 30. If you need a…