Hi All, Its not a daffodil but this shrub on our roadside border creates considerable interest from passers by. It is not common in New Zealand. I wonder if any of you can tell us something about the shrub. Dave
Shrub
Author: David Adams
keukenhof
Hello Everyone, The Canterbury Horticultural Society has an extensive tour programme which earns around $30 000 profit each year. A recent tour included a visit to Keukenhof. The group were met at the gate by Jan Pennings who hosted them…
Showing flowers
Hi all, I used to be unpopular for being late to get my flowers staged and for entering lesser quality flowers. That is because I enter as many classes as I can. Some of our New Zealand exhibitors will only…
Plunging Bulbs
Hello Everyone, Last weekend I attended an Alpine GS study weekend. It was interesting in a talk on trilliums of America’s West Coast the speaker noted that many trilliums didn’t appear this year. I must say that as Leitha and…
Poppies
Golly Brian, those large poppies look awfully like the ones we had. The seed pods are evidently much desired. Maybe those who have a use for them can’t see them from the road as they could at our place. Dave
Preparing flowers for exhibition
Thanks to Nancy I can now send with this photo. I missed it on my posting yesterday. Be assured I am very competitive and would do the same in order to win a class I was keen to win. …