Category: Intermediates

Discussions and photos about Intermediate size daffodils with a diameter of 50mm up to and including 80 mm.

2015 Show Winners now on DaffTube

Wondering what you were going to do now that daffodils are not much in season?  The collection of photos of 2015 ADS award winning exhibits is now available on DaffTube. Go to DaffTube.org, click on the Shows menu and scroll…

Diamond and gold dust

A few years ago John Hunter posted on Daffnet some comments about gold and silver dusted perianths. https://daffnet.org/gold-and-silver-dusted-perianths/ He referred to a short article in The Daffodil Journal Vol. 48 #4, June 2012 p.308 about what causes diamond dusting, which…

Some blooms this season

Season just about finished, a few poets and late Irish flowers opening.The following pics are what caught my eye in my patch this year.The small white-orange double is just about miniature with terrific form.The 1 Y-Y, I am not 100%…

Breeding down

The project of breeding highly bred modern daffodils towards miniatures is starting to yield promising results. This one started miniature but is now 60mm This little one is completely unexpected. It is a first flower and it is hard to…

Around the Show

Some of the flowers in the Canberra show will warm hearts elsewhere. One of the sensations was a superb smooth specimen of Mesa Verde shown by Chris Ryan. Graham showed some pictures of some of my splits. Champion div.11 was…