Author: Mary Lou Gripshover

more diseases

Hi, Since we’re talking diseases, here’s a photo of a leaf problem I have on a couple seedlings.  Is it smoulder?  Or something else?  If smoulder, will soaking in a fungicide cure it? Mary Lou

about Phyllis Hess

Friends, Phyllis Hess has been in the hospital with pneumonia.  I talked to her husband, Dave, this morning and he expects she will be coming home later today.  If you want to send a note of cheer, you can email Phyllis privately…

the man behind the camera

Friends, I thoroughly enjoy all the photos that are posted on Daffnet, and I thank the photographers for all their hard work so that we can see daffodils from around the world.  Here’s our man, Tom Stettner, taking photos at the…

weather

Hope the tornadoes that went across the southern part of the country hasn’t affected anyone.  I know Murphreesboro is pretty close to Nashville.  Hope everyone is ok. Mary Lou

identifying cultivars and species

  Dave made some very good comments.  Not only about species, but also historic daffodils.  Can you ID the flower in the attached photo?  It looks like it could be historic.  But it’s from a cross I made in my…

ok,it’s not daffodils

Quite a few of these erythroniums (presumably E. americanum) are blooming today in an area that doesn’t grow daffodils.  There have always been a few, but it seems that without the daffodil foliage, there are more of them.  If I had…