The fertility of species and named daffodils.
Gold Step is Alfriston (2Y-R) x bulbocodium. Selfed, presumably, it has produced a number of hybrids with further fertility. 09_09MB is almost fully fertile and has selfed to produce further fertile hybrids similar to itself. 09_14MB has very slight fertility.…
Daffnet is very quiet. Gold Step (Alfriston x bulbocodium) has not started yet but some of its progeny have. Seeds first collected from it in 2006 can now be judged to have been self pollinated because they are markedly different…
I called on Wilf Hall late last week ; we had a few cold days and I wondered how the tazettas and the grower were handling the abrupt arrival of winter .Wilf was out in the bulb patch ,…
The first of the heavy frosts have hit. Fortunately I picked a few tazettas before hand – this is good as they are ever likely to be at this time of year in this climate. The hybrids between Emerald Sea…
Clay Higgins wrote on June 14 that he got seed from the open pollination of Classic Gold. This is a cross of N. bulbocodium conspicuus, which should be hexaploid, and N. rupicola which is diploid. Such a combination normally is unfertile. But some of these XXXY-…
To anyone–both International and USA: If you are interested in tazettas or poetaz I have extra o.p. seeds available FREE of charge! 3 categories: 1) Fertile tetraploid poetaz (bred from tetraploid Klondyke, Yellow Butterfly, Matador, Matador x (Autumn Sol x…