Thanks to all for the suggestions about growing daffodils in Arizona. Bob Spotts commented that he was familiar with the part of the state in which my friend is living and confirms that daffodils won’t make it there. So I’m…
Author: Bill Lee, Ohio
Daffodils in Arizona?
I promised to send some daffodil bulbs to a friend who has just bought his first house. He said he was in Peoria. When he sent me the address, I found it was Peoria, Arizona. Is it possible to grow…
Golden Rice and Daffodils–but don’t eat them!
In a message dated 8/8/2010 6:28:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, writes: Vitamin A and Alzheimers medicine . . .and we thought they were just pretty yellow flowers. This should not be taken as a recommendation to add daffodils to your…
Daffodil genes and rice
The current issue of Smithsonian magazine has a brief mention of daffodil genes inserted into rice to create a strain enriched with beta carotene, a source of vitamin A. Health experts say millions of malnourished children worldwide could avoid blindness…
Welcome to all new Daffnet members
Lately there have been postings from some new Daffnet members and it’s great to see the list being used by new people. But a bunch of us were sitting around the other day talking about this and we wished we…
Taking too many flowers to a show
Chriss Rainey wrote that it might not always be a good idea to take large numbers of flowers to a show. I do know of one or two cases where a local group was so unhappy about visitors winning all…