The ADS Gold and Silver Medals were awarded at the Annual Meeting. The Gold Medal, for service to daffodils, went to Bob Spotts. Bob has been an ambassador for the daffodil, and his innovative hybridizing using N. viridiflorus has led…
Author: Mary Lou Gripshover
New Daffodil Grower
I recently received a catalog/list from a new supplier of daffodil bulbs. Jon Kawaguchi, while not new to daffodil growing, is now offering Walter Blom’s bulbs, and others, formerly offered by Nancy Wilson. After 40 years, Nancy has decided to retire. You can…
Convention airport transport
Is anyone arriving at the Newport News airport around 3:15 on Thursday? We might get cheaper rates with the airport shuttle with more than one person travelling. Mary Lou
Daffodil Flag Flying in Ohio
I’ve had a few daffodils blooming in pots (very few), but today I have the first daffodil bloom in the open ground. It’s a little yellow trumpet bred from ‘Wee Bee’ x ‘Lilliput’ way back in 1973. It doesn’t increase,…
Blooming in Ohio
Winter has not been kind, though other parts of the country have had it worse than we have, here in Cincinnati. The extreme cold, with temps near and below zero, has not been good for growing bulbs in pots in…
N. poeticus in Austria
Has anyone searched for N. poeticus in Austria lately? Matthew Zandbergen wrote, in the 1971 March Daffodil Journal, about great fields of them. There is a Narzissenfest in Bad Aussee each year in May. If you Google narcissus in Austria,…