Category: Fertility

The fertility of species and named daffodils.

IMG_1502.jpg, IMG_1565.jpg Rongotea Show

IMG_1502.jpg IMG_1565.jpg Hi Daffnetters, Wednesday was a small midweek show at Rongotea, a small farming center on a busy cross-road on the very fertile Manawatu river plains.A very prosperous farming area, an excellent venue and great country hospitality. A very…

First tazetta of season

This is dreadful quality but it is always the first of the autumn tazettas to flower, does so reliably in September and is fertile so I have kept it. Harold  

fertile hybrids

Last year a fully fertile bulbocodium/main division hybrid flowered. Unfortunately it is not doing as well as its spectacularly vigorous and floriferous siblings. This year a fully fertile triandrus/main division hybrid has flowered. Strangely single headed and not much like…

Pink double.

Another  early  pink  double ..   J F M  92  – 85        Nina  x  Replete .   I  have  good  stocks  of  this  seedling  —  it,s very  vigorous .. Has  the  same  faults  as  most  of  my  early  pinks  but  was  one  of  the …

Pink Doubles.

Early  pink  doubles  have  been  a work  in  progress  for  many  years ..Two  siblings  here  from Dear  Me  x  Triton                x           sdlg  4 w – p  Pastel  Rose  x  Replete .. 3  blooms  of  deep  colour  in    05 – 35   ,  one  bloom  of  …