It was -4C last night but the frost eventually thawed and the sun came out.
Category: Growing Daffodils
Selecting bulbs to chip, guidance
All, I plan on chipping bulbs this season and understand that single nosed, round bulbs are what to use. However there are some varieties where the only single-nose bulbs are newly separated off-sets that are definitely *not* round. But, they…
Breeding that does not come true
To the hybridizers out there. I you cross two daffodils and the resulting seedling bloom so that they don’t favor any of the supposed parents, do you still show them using the cross that you registered. e.g. you cross a…
N. bulbocodium
Hi everyone, I am overcome by my N. bulbocodiums this year. There was a time when I was trying to breed them but my experience is that if you cross a yellow bulbocodium with anything, you get a yellow bulbocodium.…
Daffodil ‘Early Louisiana’ which is a N. jonquilla
I know it the 4th of July. I’ll get to the celebration later. it’s only 8:00am here. However, back in the spring someone posted that they were looking for a source to obtain the jonquil called ‘Early Louisiana’. At…
Bubs dug
I’ve now dug all the bulbs that I will be digging this year. After a couple of weeks drying I will be the cleaning and sorting. The sorting will be difficult this year as I am bound and determined to…