Author: Harold Koopowitz, California

Southern Calif

Another Pink Perianth

Sid Dubose’s charming intermediate, N. ‘Brooke Ager’ usually has a faint hint of pink in its perianth when grown under my conditions.  So it should not be too surprising that when it was crossed with N. gaditanus that it yielded…

Pink Perianths

Pink perianths are still as rare as hen’s teeth. John Reed has made a few standard P-P daffodils and Brian Duncan made Pink Perry although outside of N.Ireland it usually comes with a yellow perianth. Both Bob Spott’s and I…

Double Minis

The original miniature doubles seem to have been found by happenstance and until recently there was almost no deliberate effort to breed them. Good doubles are slow in coming as one needs to rely on standard doubles with stigmas to…

Some red-cupped minis

This year has been useful because it has allowed me to assess several new directions in breeding miniatures. When I started to work on miniatures some 15 years ago I had two major goals. These were to increase the color…