Hi all, Our first daffodil seedling, No. 25/95G, for 2012 is in flower at present in our open ground beds. It came into flower about ten days ago. The breeding is {(Cascade x [Lingering Light x Gisela]) x Audubon} x Emerald Sea. It is quite…
Author: John Hunter, New Zealand
unusual seedling
Hello all, I have had a very unusual seedling flower for the past three years. This September the bulb produced three flower stems, what makes it unusual is that it appears to be a 2W-W with a with a half…
Poeticus
Hello all, A late season observation. I have only one clump of ‘Cantabile’ Guy L. Wilson, 1932 growing here, it has three flower stems – two flowers have unequal pollen anthers and the other one has subequal pollen anthers. These…
re Poeticus
Hello all, It would appear a lot of the debate on daffnet over the last five or six years maybe due to a change I suggested to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Daffodil and Tulip Committee on Poeticus classification in the…
Poeticus
Hello all, The great Poeticus debate is starting again!!!! One tires of the term “3 up and 3 down” when referring to Poeticus pollen anthers. H.W. Pugsley’s exhaustive paper ‘Narcissus poeticus and its Allies’ was published in the Journal of…
Emailing: daffodils 2
Looking across a daffodil bed showing a very tall stemmed large yellow double seedling in the centre of photo. Cheers, John