Category: Weather and Temperature

Discussions about weather impact and temperature on daffodils.

Growing tazettas

The name ‘Gramon’, in the series of tazettas I named, is short for Grand Monarch. I assume this series are genetically similar to Grand Monarch. They flower in winter here and benefit from a little frost protection. A shrub (Callistemon)…

Local Drought Over

Friday night we had a local thunder storm come through that was no more then 25 to 30 miles wide and lasted about 1 1/2 hours and gave us 4.0 inches of rain.  Our local drought is over.  I can…

Drought and Water Restrictions

We have drought in New Jersey (USA) this summer and have been put on Water Restrictions.  It only applies to those who use the city water, mine is New Jersey American Water, with a few exceptions. For me, both for…

Daffodils in the snow

As the weatherman predicted, we got about 1-1/2 inches of snow last night.  Temps were in the teens.  The sun is out today, and it is melting the snow.  The photo of the Link seedling was taken when it was…

Daffodil flag taken down for the year.

I watched the last daffodils melt in the heat this weekend.  Three poets a div 3 and a division 7 were the last open this season.  Seed set was terrible for the early crosses with only two successful in Oakdale…