A question to hybridizers. How do you evaluate your seedlings on a year when they have summer weather in February followed in March by three weeks of extreme cold and storms with 35-40 mph winds whipping them. My daffodils that…
Category: Weather and Temperature
Discussions about weather impact and temperature on daffodils.
First florets
My daffodil season began this morning with 3 daffodils flowering. Sometimes tazettas flower here in February. This year they are relatively late, presumably because we have had a long warm summer without strong temperature or moisture signals to initiate the…
No Refrigerators in Northeast North Carolina
Step out of your warm house and into Nature’s refrigerator. No man-made refrigerators necessary in Northeast North Carolina. After half of my daffodils bloomed in the summer like February weather. Now I am concerned about our Show on March 25…
Updates to the ADS Handbook for Growing, Exhibiting, and Judging Daffodils
There have been many changes made by the ADS Board of Directors to the ADS Judges Manual (officially known as the Handbook for Growing, Exhibiting, and Judging Daffodils) since the Judges Manual was last updated and printed in 2007. There…
Final flower
It has been an idyllic spring here with mild temperatures and regular rain. This has made the last flower very late indeed: – a species poeticus grown from seed from Steve Vinisky. It is very much later that all the…
Final Pick
Last week was the last significant pick of daffodils for the season. Just because it was possible a few of these were put in the Canberra iris show. Typically late flowers do poorly here and many from the N. hemisphere…