Early this morning Susan, Nancy Kandel’s daughter reported that long time member of ADS and Marie Bozievich’s second daughter Nancy Kandel when to her reward after a long sickness in a hospice near Denver Colorado. She was 86 years old. …
Category: Societies and groups
Information and photos of local and regional daffodil groups.
Funny story on Hybridizing
My first attempts at making crosses were a disaster, it was spring 1997 after we had moved into the house with Fran’s mother, Marie Bozievich, to take care of her as she was 90 years old, fragile but ambulatory. I…
The former. . . Hybridizer’s Round Robin
To Becky Fox Mathews, Mike Berringer, Bill Carter, Mitch Carney, Harold Koopowitz, Bob Spots, Mary Lou Gripshover, Janet Hickman and all hybridizers and those that want to be hybridizers: I recently had a email conversation of sorts with Sara Van…
A Cold and Warn Daffodil Year
During the daffodil show season in April we had 80 degree (F) weather that burned out my daffodils, than in the month of May and June we had cooler than normal weather. I wore long pants until yesterday because it…
N. jonquilla Crosses
I have made a lot of N. jonquil crosses over the years and kept the crosses hoping beyond hope that one of them will turn out a winner. I just about run myself out of planting space by having so…
Seven States Daffodil Show, Boylston, MA
Set up for the show started Friday and continued until judging on Saturday morning at the Seven States Daffodil Show at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, Massachusetts. Peter Timms was the host and had everything running…