For those of us who are mostly gardeners and don’t breed or show their daffodils, I’m wondering if feedback on geographical locations and increase/decline of specific introductions might be of any use to those who are breeding and selling new…
Author: Debbie Green, North Carolina
Amaryllis belladonna
The naked ladies I know in the United States are Lycoris squamigera; in the Amaryllidaceae family, but not the genus Amaryllis. According to Scott Ogden in his book, “Garden Bulbs for the South,” they hail from Japan and the genus is…
Fw: New Zealand Monarchs WAS Monarch Butterfly Larvae.
There is a New Zealand Monarch website at: http://www.monarch.org.nz/monarch/ It includes this article; if you start at page 3 it gives a lot of history about Monarchs in NZ: http://www.monarch.org.nz/monarch/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/butterfly-bay-report.pdf Ain’t the internet grand? Debbie in Western North Carolina
Daffodil companion plants
As one whose interest is in gardening with daffs, rather than breeding or showing, I was thrilled to see this list of companion plants: http://www.hort.cornell.edu/combos/FeaturedCombos/OtherSuggestedCombos/All%20Narcissus%20Combos/NarcissusCombos.htm Enjoy! Debbie in western NC
Daffodils in poetry
Thought many would enjoy this info on Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac” about Wordsworth’s inspiration for “I Wander’d Lonely as a Cloud,” his famous daffodil poem: It was on this day in 1802 that William Wordsworth was walking home with his sister, Dorothy, and…
Pink in the garden
I know many of you are running full-tilt with shows, etc., but I have a question about growing pink daffodils, which many find disappointing as garden flowers. I remember Brent Heath talking about how many bulb purveyors’ catalog photos of…