I kept wondering why my daffodil show season was cut so short this year, now I know. The local weather man was recapping this year’s weather and stated that since April’s two days of over 90’F’ degree weather, our first…
Category: Growing Daffodils
What’s the trick to get Golden Rain to bloom?
All, Golden Rain is an erratic bloomer at best, and I’m not the only one who has fits with it. What’s the trick to get it to bloom? Does it need a long, hot, dry summer? A good hard drenching…
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…
Daffodil Digging Time
It’s time to dig daffodils and I am feeling the pain already. This being my 80th year, digging gets harder each year and I have muscles that I didn’t know about already telling me they don’t want to do it. …
Watering daffodils
Being in Western Washington I’ve never had to water daffodils that were not in pots. It typically rains Jan, Feb, March, April, May, and June enough that I’ve never worried about watering daffodils in the ground. This year has been…
End of season nearing
I just wanted to give a short update: Most Surprising was a season one set of Jonquil/Viridiflorus/standard crosses John Hunter made. These have a heady vanilla scent and start blooming just after the first daffodils opened. These cultivars kept sending…