Author: Clay E. Higgins

Raised on a south central Arkansas family farm in Drew County, where our main cash crop was cotton and tomates. Graduated from Drew Central High School. Degrees: Undergraduate at Boston University, Boston. Graduate: Northeastern University, Boston. Retired LTC U.S. Army. Consultant and "Contractor" Army Program Manager until retired Dec 2011. Currently growing my daffodils and enjoying life. Trying my hand at hybridizing. I am a Master Gardener

2024 ADS Virtual Winter Break

Those that missed yesterday’s ADS zoom (Saturday) missed some excellent information from Lawrence’s talk about Australia’s Daffodils to Harold’s talk on hybridizing and making of daffodil seeds. As a hybridizer I enjoyed both very much.  As a pollen dabber, I…

SCAM

I received an email from a scammer this morning wanting me to go to Amazon and buy a gift card for a dying friend of theirs and they were going to reimburse me later. That is a scam.  It used…

Ready for Winter

I’ve finished my daffodil planting this year. I don’t know if it fortunate or unfortunate that bulbs divide. This year I gave away packages of bulbs that I distributed across the east coast and still had to naturalize a fair…

Nancy Kandel

Early this morning Susan, Nancy Kandel’s daughter reported that long time member of ADS and Marie Bozievich’s second daughter Nancy Kandel when to her reward after a long sickness in a hospice near Denver Colorado. She was 86 years old. …

Funny story on Hybridizing

My first attempts at making crosses were a disaster, it was spring 1997 after we had moved into the house with Fran’s mother, Marie Bozievich, to take care of her as she was 90 years old, fragile but ambulatory.  I…