For a change one of the other divisions ‘Miss Lizzy’, a soon to be registered 5Y-Y which was Champion Bloom division 5 shown by Barbara Fox. James Akers
Harrogate Show 2
Author: James Akers, England
Harrogate Flower
Harrogate Flower show began today. Here is the Grand Champion Bloom, ‘Midas Touch’ a relatively old cultivar Tom Bloomer raised, 1977 but very smooth and graceful. It was one of a vase of three shown by Barry Hogg, picture attached.…
RHS Main Show
This show at Wisley starts tomorrow, but here are two photographs at staging time. The gentleman is Brian Duncan, but who is the lady? The flowers are Chris Yates entry in the Bowles Cup, fifteen vases of three…
New Northern Group website
The Northern Group of the Daffodil Society has today launched its new web site with up-to-date reports and pictures of shows in the north of the UK. The link is:- www.thenortherngroup.co.uk To see show information place your…
RHS Early Daffodil Competition
At the awards ceremony of the Royal Horticultural Society at Vincent Square, London yesterday a very elegant lady (see picture), who some of you may recognise, received the Peter Barr Trophy for services to Daffodils, 100 years after its first…
narcissus pseudonarcissus too
Yesterday I visited Wordsworth Point on the side of Ullswater whose daffodils the poet Wordsworth described in his famous poem. I have attached a photograph together with one taken in Brigsteer Woods near Windermere where there are hundreds of thousands…