It looks like I have become the weather reporter for the east coast in 2018. We are facing our 4th storm today and tomorrow. It has left my daffodils devastated and ruined for the year. The only salvation after a…
Weather Report for East Coast of NC
Category: Breeding
Contains information and advice about hybridizing as well as photos of seedlings.
Autumn Flowers
The season has begun here in Canberra with some seedlings with First Stanza in their parentage. And a few days later (11th here) some seedlings with Gold Stanza as pollen parent.
Hybridizing problems
Some hybridizers give seedling numbers the minute they plant the seeds. I usually keep the seedling under the cross name until they start blooming. Here’s a problem that I get often when I give the seedling a number before they…
Daffodil Season in Northeast NC
I went to the garden today and found a lot blooming. However, I found myself interested more in two of my hybrids than all the already named daffodils. The first on is a little cross between Glenbrook Minicycla and N.…
Sent to my Texas Master Gardeners
This was a quickie post I made to our MG group. We have about 83 active members, 12 new students going through 60 hours of training, then 50 hours of volunteer hours. Pretty incredible for me to have only picked…
Tricollet form
I think the form of Tricollet is very attractive and have over the years grown seedlings from it. Although it is technically 11a the form is so distinct that I code them as 11t. Daffseek says that Tricollet is bred…