Category: Fertility

The fertility of species and named daffodils.

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…

winter jonquils

There are a few promising jonquils in flower at the moment, all of them scented and all with the terrific substance that viridiflorus contributes. 18_34MJ 21_11MJ 21_03MJ 18_51MJ with reflex that viridiflorus can produce. 7G-G in my view and not…

WDS Show

Yesterday we had a nice show at the Washington Daffodil Society in Alexandria, Virginia. I can’t give a count of stems, exhibitors, etc., but I can give some pictures. The Gold Ribbon was Millennium Orange 1W-O exhibited by Carla Stanley.…