Hi Folks It is with sadness that I report the death of June Chappell on October 25th. A private funeral has been held. David Adams
Author: David Adams
Season
On Monday I picked the last of our daffodil flowers for the season. When you consider that our peak season is usually the last week of September this is absurd. There is new snow on the mountains and a frost…
Rose of Sharon
Hi Folks, I have a request for information on a tazetta supposedly native to Israel and may be commonly known as the Rose of Sharon. I have searched many areas of Google, consulted the RHS Register, gone through John Blanchard’s…
Honour
Hi Folks, At the recent AGM of the Canterbury Horticultural Society I was honoured to receive one of their highest awards for my work with daffodils. This has only come about from the support and advice from all you people…
Perception
Hi Folks, At all local shows we mount a trade stand for selling bulbs from our catalogue. As the season is very late we had few named, exhibition cultivars available for our stand in Christchurch last weekend so we collected…
The Dream and the Reality
Two of my daffodil fields today. First year down planting closest to the camera. Season is about three weeks behind normal Hi Folks, Each year we show our flowers and determine that next year we will win every class. We…