Discussions about weather impact and temperature on daffodils.
Not many 11b’s have been registered this century. To my eye, judging from the photos in Daffseek, the most attractive of these is Brian Duncan’s ‘Jodi’. Until convinced otherwise, I think a good 11b is not just split, it features…
One question I get regularly is what daffodils will grow in Sydney. Now in the CBD would be a challenge and most would be more like annuals as the temperatures rarely fall below 10 degrees Celsius. But out in the…
Spring has come early by a couple of weeks for some varieties. The flower not yet registered as Yazjoy opened in July. Unfortunately is is 1-2 mm short of being a 1W-W. A miraculously nice (for me) miniature white…
Different paperwhites flower here in Canberra from about April to September. Flowering time is influenced by both rainfall and temperature. A couple more paperwhite N. broussonetii seedlings have flowered here and these too have, at best, only slight fertility. The autumn…
Mid January and winter finally shows up and brings the first hard frost and temps as low as 24 degrees none of this seems to bother Diamond Ring the second Bulbocodium to bloom so far. The vivid yellow shines out…
I complained about no winter. Northeast North Carolina is the only place where one can get a sunburn and a frostbite in the same 7 day period. A little snow on the ground on the OuterBanks of NC, and a…