A few comments. The orange butterfly weed is a huge spreader in warmer states. It is all over New Mexico and marching east and west. I got a terrier for the moles, he has caught two mice and dug up…
Author: Nancy Wilson, California
Garberville, Calif
N. wilkommii
N. willkommii grows well for me, it gets some summer water and also baking. It has spread to a big patch in a raised bed. We have a northern mediteranean climate with some temperatures in the 25 degree F a…
Cutting Daffodil Foliage
Regarding cutting foliage. Jerry and I were in England looking at RHS? trial beds and they were doing an experiment in mowing daffodil foliage. Each plot was mowed at one week intervals. They found that 6 weeks after blooming was…
N. triandrus triandrus.
Ian, Your triandrus triandrus looks like one that used to be called T. calathinus or loiseleurii, listed in Blanchards book as N. ssp. capax. It was collected in the wild in the French Isles de Glenan off Brittanty so history…
Mr. Tait’s Tete- a -Tete
Well from the horses mouth, Tete-a-Tete was named as a joke. on Mr. Tait. Frank Waley , who was there when it was named, told me It was named by a friend of Mr. Tait. Mr. Tait bred early miniatures…