At long, long last, the 2020 PHS Daffodils web shop is open! We thank each of you for your emails, eagerness, and patience—and as importantly, for your overwhelming interest in our specialty product and business, now in its 17th year. …
Category: Diseases and Pests
Discussions about a wide variety of elements that can harm daffodils.
Bulb Flies
Good morning I haven’t seen much talk this spring about Bulb Flies. I hope some of you have some advice for Keqin Xu. Keqin is not yet a member though I hope your hospitality will convince him otherwise :-) frank…
Trumpet major or Lent Lily
Photo taken February 2019 Ware Church Cemetery, gloucester, virginia these are growing under ivy in a ravine area to the woods for decades and possibly centuries as Ware Church parish dates to 1690. So many of the fields here in Gloucester…
Basal rot treatment
A few prized tetraploid tazettas became infected with basal rot. I invented a treatment that successfully cured them. I am not scientist but a gardener and breeder of Narcissus who likes to try new things and experiment. In the…
Sous Vide for hot water treatment
Anyone wanting to hot water treat their bulbs on a small hobbyist level might want to consider a sous vide machine like this one: https://anovaculinary.com/. I’ve used the Precision Cooker one for 2 years now and am very pleased with…
Storage humidity of Onions
In Texas, Onions are the #1 farm commodity sold as far as total gross $ sales. Onions require ideal growing conditions as far as soil moisture, soil quality and soil nutrition very similar to what daffodils need. Onions require full…