Author: Rod Armstrong

Book For Southern Gardeners

My first cousin Betty Montgomery, a life member of the ADS and mentored by my mother Frances Armstrong, has written a beautiful book titled “A Four-Season Southern Garden”. Betty shares her gardening experience from forty years of love and labor…

Texas Daffodil Show

The Texas Daffodil Society led by its tireless President, Karla McKenzie, hosted at the Dallas Arboretum Saturday one of the best Dallas shows ever. In addition to the horticultural show that included a photography section, there was also a NGC…

Welsh Rugby Union

In 2008 Ron Scamp registered a 1Y-Y called Welsh Rugby Union sometimes called Grand Slam. Thus, we have a sport and “grand slam” legitimately introduced into the restrictions of daffodil discussions only. Therefore I can legitimately extend this discussion to…

March Texas Snow

Yesterday was the ADS Southern Region Show in Conway, Arkansas about 335 miles to the northeast of my home in Plano, TX,   I left the show to return home about 2 pm yesterday afternoon with the temperature in the…

2010 Texas Show

This last Friday and Saturday the Texas Daffodil Society hosted it’s annual State Daffodil show at the Dallas Arboretum despite the fact that our season had barely started. We’ve had en extremely cool and extended winter. Our February high temperatures…

ADS Southern Regional Show

This past weekend the Texas Daffodil Society hosted the ADS Southern Regional Show at the Dallas Arboretum in Dallas, Texas. This was the opening weekend for their 25th annual Dallas Blooms Classic – the most stunning spring floral display in…