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

Refrigeration of Daffodils – ADS Convention

I just got my ADS The Daffodil Journal, March 2022.  There is an excellent article in this journal on how to refrigerate daffodils for a couple of weeks that can be used to get daffodils to our late ADS National…

‘Winter Waltz’ 6W-P

To my surprise on March 16th I found that I had Winter Waltz blooming in my daffodil beds all by themselves.  No other show daffodils was even close to blooming, RES is the exception.  I noted that Winter Waltz in…

Naturalized Daffodils or Not

I learned a hard lesson this morning.  I had planted a sizable naturalized daffodils bed in my front area near a large oak tree that was 4 feet from the street in front of my house. No curb. At 7:00am…

Fall Daffodil Planting

This fall I gave away boxes of bulbs to four different daffodil societies trying to cut back on my bulbs. Some I gave away entire blocks of cultivars so that I would not have that cultivar any more.  I thought…