To Becky Fox Mathews, Mike Berringer, Bill Carter, Mitch Carney, Harold Koopowitz, Bob Spots, Mary Lou Gripshover, Janet Hickman and all hybridizers and those that want to be hybridizers: I recently had a email conversation of sorts with Sara Van…
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bulbocodium season
Dry Spring has made a big difference in a sucsessful seed set
I keep good records on crosses and seed set. This year has been a banner year. Past years I’ve made between 30 and 55% of my crosses actually making seed. This year it is at ~80% and the number of…
Daffodil Show by the Little Garden Club of Rye, NY
I just came back from the exciting little show at Rye. It was a small show as it should be. I feel I should apologize for winning more than I should have. The hostess’s and the judges, including students judges,…
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.…
‘Windeler’ 2W-WWY
Hi, Last fall I sent out a lot of ‘Windeler’ 2W-WWY to various daffodil groups in the middle Atlantic States, the Northeast Region, and to the area that used to be called New England. At the time there was no…