A nice companion to the 8Y-O a week or two ago is this 8W-O. It is Autumn Colors 8W-O crossed with a First Stanza seedling (09/21T x 09/02T). It has the size and robustness of Autumn Colors combined with earliness…
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Category: Weather and Temperature
Discussions about weather impact and temperature on daffodils.
First Flower in Canberra
Hi All, The daffodil season has started here absurdly early. This new seedling is 98_22T x (Gold Stanza x First Stanza). These parents are all pictured in my latest online catalog (and there are crosses like it available as seed).…
Journal
Hi all, The December Journal arrived in Christchurch yesterday. Thanks Greg for a good read and wonderful photographs. Digging has started here where we are in a state of very dry weather. The last three days have been over 30*C.…
Last final encore
Just as the very last flowers of the very late poet wither a bulbocodium decides to send up a last flower. With temperatures of 35C what was it thinking? Not surprisingly, most seed pods have ripened.
last flower
A couple of weeks after the last daffodils this late poet, grown from seed from Steve Vinisky, flowers. Late flowers tend not to do well here, presumably because there is not much remaining growing season, but this one seems to…
How tall does your daffodil grow?
Nancy Tackett forwarded a query about growing tall daffodils in Chicago, and as I just responded it occurred to me that answers form others about their local climes may be of interest to us all. The desire was for a…