On Friday 16th April 2021, John Hunter will be presented with the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture Raisers’ (Breeders’) Award, to add to the many awards he has already received. The Award will be made at a ceremony in…
Category: Breeding
Contains information and advice about hybridizing as well as photos of seedlings.
Clay Higgins Seedling – Mismarked so I need help
Clay sorry you are under the weather and not able to garden as we all like to. I just had a great Clay Higgins seedling bloom but it is the incorect classification. When sent to me it was marked 14-28…
Lawrence Trevanion’s program on “BREEDING ADVANCES IN DIVISIONS 5, 6, 7, 8 AND 10 IN AUSTRALIA”
For those of you who were in on Lawrence Trevanion’s excellent presentation last Wednesday night, March 31, we’re happy to report that he was able to send us his PowerPoint with the live links to all of the discussions he…
New 1st year blooms. What you can get from Pacific Rim 2Y-YYR x Magician 2W-R
In 2013 (I was just getting started in hybridizing) I was crossing things that I had. I was not following the “rule of thumb” of crossing similar colored flowers. I now generally cross yellow with yellow and white with white…
A Question for Hybridizers.
Here is a question that I have never seen discussed. We know that some species are self-infertile but others are self fertile. What is the situation in hybrids? Selfing is a standard practice in other plant groups to explore recombination…
Oakwood Daffodils
Dear friends, Dr. John Reed’s former assistant and the new owner of Oakwood Daffodils, Julie Martin, has updated the contact information for Oakwood Daffodils. The new email address is . Additionally, Oakwood Daffodils’s bulbs will be available on…