The VERY BEST place to buy your daffodils will be directly from the specialty growers/hybridizers of daffodils! These growers walk all of the rows of their daffodils at all seasons of the year! They are aware of how each variety…
Category: Nematode
Diseases and pest inspections
Dave brings up a good point most people do not know. You can export a diseased daffodil (or plant or fruit) to a country or region of a country that already has that particular pest or disease. Tete-a-tete is the…
Horse-teething – aka going to grass
When digging and lifting seedlings yesterday morning, I encountered an unusual situation. I had planted one or two small bulbs of each of twenty sibling seedlings from the cross ‘Miss Primm’ x N. fernandesii three years ago in a rectangular…
Pest Management
Late this past winter, as daffodil leaves of early varieties emerged, I observed an area in one bed where the leaf shoots were misshapen and some shoots were simply missing. I dug a sample of bulbs and took them to…
Narcissus pest control – Chemical & IPM update from Farwest Show
This update information only applies to the USA. The situation will be different by country. I am NOT an expert in these areas. The information is taken from seminar handouts and hastily scribbled notes. Believed to be fairly accurate but…
Strawberries and daffodils
Both of these like well drained, sandy soils in the southern states. Choose a variety that is fairly short in height growing in and among well spaced out daffodils. By the time you have harvested a years supply of strawberries,…