Category: Historics

Discussion about daffodils registered or known to be in gardens prior to 1940.

Backhouse family – Daffodil ‘Mrs R O Backhouse’

http://www.durhamweb.org.uk/dclhs/Backhouse-family.html   Hope I get this one to work!   For those who want to know more about the family origins of the cultivar ‘Mrs R O Backhouse’   If the link fails Google < backhouse durham > for Durham Local…

Historic daffodils help: Verger

Here are two photos of Verger as I grow it here in Livermore, CA.  The bulbs were bought at the local nursery, Alden Lane, which provides the venue for our first NCDS show each year.  It grows well and multiplies…

Australasian questions

Hi folks, Sorry for posting a question to Australasian growers but daffnet seems the easiest forum to get a wider response. Q1 I inherited some bulbs as ‘Circe’ supposedly a 1W – Y from Alf Chappell. This cultivar is not registered but…