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

Local Drought Over

Friday night we had a local thunder storm come through that was no more then 25 to 30 miles wide and lasted about 1 1/2 hours and gave us 4.0 inches of rain.  Our local drought is over.  I can…

Drought and Water Restrictions

We have drought in New Jersey (USA) this summer and have been put on Water Restrictions.  It only applies to those who use the city water, mine is New Jersey American Water, with a few exceptions. For me, both for…

daff net

I have been posting information on daffnet mostly to try and get people to talk about daffodils. However, it seems to have dried up again, sort of like the drought we are having along with the extreme heat.  The weather…

Miniature Name

A few years ago, before COVID-19, I had a collection of five miniature not judged.  When I asked the Captain of the team why was it not judged and I was told that the ‘Yellow Minnow’ 8Y-Y in my collection…

Species Daffodils

I’m still using the 2011 ADS Daffodils to Show and Grow for names and classification of species daffodils.  It has a very good list to include the natural Interectional hybrids listed with an x in front of the name.  I…

Breeding that does not come true

To the hybridizers out there.  I you cross two daffodils and the resulting seedling bloom so that they don’t favor any of the supposed parents, do you still show them using the cross that you registered. e.g. you cross a…