Category: Breeding

Contains information and advice about hybridizing as well as photos of seedlings.

summer tazettas

This summer has been mild and wet in Canberra. The result is that tazettas started flowering in late January and quite a few are flowering a month later, which is still very early by usual standards. 19_67T is a standard…

2024 ADS Virtual Winter Break

Those that missed yesterday’s ADS zoom (Saturday) missed some excellent information from Lawrence’s talk about Australia’s Daffodils to Harold’s talk on hybridizing and making of daffodil seeds. As a hybridizer I enjoyed both very much.  As a pollen dabber, I…

Funny story on Hybridizing

My first attempts at making crosses were a disaster, it was spring 1997 after we had moved into the house with Fran’s mother, Marie Bozievich, to take care of her as she was 90 years old, fragile but ambulatory.  I…

Daffodil Questions

I was recently asked by Email 5 questions about planting from an ADS member.  I’m posting the questions and my answers below.  It’s hard to answer these questions directly, therefore, I had to sort of explain my method as well…