Here’s my first memory – Rebecca Brown in the boutique with her wonderful daffodil drawings. In Gloucester, walking from the bus along the street toward the Daffodil Festival, we met a resident selling daffodils cut from his garden behind his…
It’s been an extremely early Spring here in California, and it looked as though exhibitors would have but few blooms for the mid-season Murphys Show. So, during the two weeks before that show, I picked and refrigerated every decent seedling…
Some of my viridiflorus second-generation progeny might have future value as additions to Division 7 cultivars. Here’s a collection of five jonquil seedlings from the Livermore Show on March 7-8. My opinion is that this was my best five-stem collection.…
One of the features of the ADS National Show is the Little England/Larry Mains Trophy class requiring three stems each of nine different Division 3 cultivars. Needless to say, this is a difficult class to enter. From Mary Lou Gripshover:…
Comprehensive information on all daffodil shows held during the 2014 season has been compiled from the Show Reports submitted by Show Chairmen. This information includes blooms in, and exhibitors of, entries winning ADS Awards. It also includes information about the…
Daffodil Friends, Sadly, John Reed just called to tell me that his wife, Sandy, passed away this afternoon at their home in Niles. She was able to come home from the hospice to spend her last hours. More information will…