Does anyone know of a source for bulbs of Chamber Music? Thanks Harold
Author: Harold Koopowitz, California
Southern Calif
Pink and Orange Perianths.
Getting color into the perianths of the miniature daffodils is as difficult as getting color into the perianths of standard flowers, but it is not impossible. It turns out that using the smaller jonquil species is the magic key to…
Comments on Livermore Show 2019
As Bob Spots pointed out our daffodil Season was close to its peak for the early Livermore show. Often in January we have a hot spell but that was not the case this year. We had lots of frost –…
Another bulbocodium hybrid.
Lawrence Trevanian made ‘Gold Step’ a cross of ‘Alfriston, 2Y-R, by N. bulbocodium. This cross is fertile. I think Lawrence once told be that he had doubled the number of chromosomes to restore fertility. I made the first hybrids with…
Ultra rapid seedlings in flower
At the Sacramento Convention in 2017, Steve Hampson had a lovely pot filled with the bulbocodium ‘Julia Jane’ in full bloom. Also at the convention were a few cut flowers of John Reed’s ‘Red Envy’ one of the reddest cupped…
An interesting volunteer.
I have had a pot labelled N. patula for a very long time. N. patula is a small 8W-Y. In 2004 I put the tazetta’s pollen onto ‘Emerald Sea’ and got a few seeds that were planted and then forgotten…