Information about condition and health of bulbs.
A few of these, pretty much identical to each other, have shown up over the years in the seed-grown Autumn Colors. They generally have stigmas and set seed. And have fairly abundant fertile pollen as well. Not bred from Constantinople…
Here on the immediate coast, and hence lacking a truly hot summer baking, Constantinople tends to not be as fully double as it should be, having the doubling generally confined to the region of the corona, while this new seedling,…
There are scientific journals out there that say N. Tazetta ‘Chinese sacred lily’ or ‘Orientalis’ is sterile. This is because the plant is triploid with 30 chromosomes and this causes pollen to not germinate on the stigma and few viable embryos…
Brent Heath will tell you if you want a pot of daffodils to have short foliage and shorter sturdier bloom stalks that you need more bright light. Growing pots indoors in a cool/cold garage under very bright fluorescent or LED…
For your holiday enjoyment: the bulbocodum hybrid, ‘Yuletide’, and Camellia sasanqua ‘Yuletide”— putting on a joint Yuletide seasonal show in my garden, USDA Zone 8b in middle Georgia (southeastern USA). ‘Yuletide’ is a 10 W-W bred by Steve Vinisky and…
I was at a garden club meeting today and they were handing out a paper that said if you added alcohol to the water of paper whites it would keep the paper whites from growing so tall. I don’t grow…