A warm congratulations to Harold Koopowitz on being awarded the Peter Barr Memorial Cup. Thanks to everyone posting photos. The season is well under way here with a variety of elegans hybrids in flower. There are some nice new things.…
Tazquils
Category: Fertility
The fertility of species and named daffodils.
Gloucester Daffodil Show Sat March 24th
Hi, My last post said I was going to the Gloucester, VA show with little to show. That was today. Never listen to me when I say I have nothing to show. I went with 23 miniatures and 23 Standards…
Double Autumn Colors seedling
A few of these, pretty much identical to each other, have shown up over the years in the seed-grown Autumn Colors. They generally have stigmas and set seed. And have fairly abundant fertile pollen as well. Not bred from Constantinople…
Single Chinese not sterile after all?
There are scientific journals out there that say N. Tazetta ‘Chinese sacred lily’ or ‘Orientalis’ is sterile. This is because the plant is triploid with 30 chromosomes and this causes pollen to not germinate on the stigma and few viable embryos…
The inheritance of recessive and dominant mutations in daffodil cultivars
This is the title of an article from Peter Brandham in the “Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook 2017, pages 26-32”. Essential statements in this paper are: Pitfalls often occur, one of the more disappointing being the mysterious disappearance of some…
Winter 2017
As Graham has remarked it’s been a dry frosty winter here in Canberra. End of winter is in sight with the first pseudonarcissus and jonquilla in flower. There are some nice tazettas that have survived the frost. As always…