Hi It always comes in handy to have something small when it comes to hybridizing miniatures. So I was quite delighted to find a tiny (about 6 inches tall) 1W-P in our garden bed. I was even more delighted to…
Flowering now in Canberra
Category: Winter Blooming Daffodils
Improved small intermediates and a bulbocodium that is the same size as the intermediates
Hi We have been breeding down with the aim of eventually getting miniatures that have the same qualities as standards. As the photos show we have a couple of seedlings that are just short of miniature in terms of flower…
Flowering now at Nullawarre
G’day people, here are a few minis and intermediates flowering in the last week or so.I haven’t posted any pictures for many years, but have a few seedlings to keep me interested.Nothing earth-shattering.
N. lagoi
The first pseudonarcissus species for the season is tiny N. lagoi. Put into a head of frost bitten Gramonella gives a better idea of its scale. One of the tazettas, sad though it is, is very interesting. Cyclamineus x…
Winter bulbocodiums
It has been a cold frosty winter here and many flowers are later than usual. The tazettas in the field are miserable. The paperwhites are miserable too but they seem a little more hardy. The viridiflorus hybrids in the field…
In Flower This Week
The pot of romieuxii has probably reached it’s best. The earliest blooms have lasted nearly two weeks. The colour is most accurate in this photo Wilfred Hall’s ‘Beesknees’ is a lovely miniature tazetta. Sadly it flowers too early for our…