Sid Dubose’s charming intermediate, N. ‘Brooke Ager’ usually has a faint hint of pink in its perianth when grown under my conditions. So it should not be too surprising that…
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Pink Perianths
Pink perianths are still as rare as hen’s teeth. John Reed has made a few standard P-P daffodils and Brian Duncan made Pink Perry although outside of N.Ireland it usually…
Double Minis
The original miniature doubles seem to have been found by happenstance and until recently there was almost no deliberate effort to breed them. Good doubles are slow in coming as…
Some red-cupped minis
This year has been useful because it has allowed me to assess several new directions in breeding miniatures. When I started to work on miniatures some 15 years ago I…
Very Early Daffodil Show
Roger’s Gardens in Corona Del Mar, in California, is one of the premier garden centers in the USA. They approached us to help put on a daffodil show February 22nd…
Some new and one old mini.
It has always been difficult getting strong orange-red color into miniatures but some of the new ones this season are showing the way. The key seems to be to use…
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