Information from and about hybridizers around the world.
Thanks everyone for the photos and reports and congratulations to John Reed. Way back in 1999 some N. broussonetii seed generously sent to me by Harold Koopowitz was sown. Now, after 20 years waiting, it has finally flowered. Either it…
Don Kimlin sent me the bulb to see if the color is better when grown in the PNW. Is it? Its got a great deep orange color in the perianth and with a little grooming could be a show flower. …
As a followup to my previous question about the ADS Approved Minis list cultivar ‘Haiku’— I have looked briefly through the index of all Cherry Creek Daffodil catalogs on DaffLibrary (thank you, Mary Lou Gripshover–for your vision and untold hours…
I wanted to share the many wonderful tazettas supplied by Bill Welch in California, like him my favorite division is 8 and the division I mostly hybridize in. I have many unusual crosses in the works but only time will…
A “tradition” of the Kyneton Daffodil Show, a “must-see” for those with a hunger for innovative breeding was a display, usually of five vases of Fred Silcock’s seedlings. Here are five vases from those shows, for a wider audience to…
I produced the first ever batch of Single Chinese Sacred Lily seeds about 10 years ago using pollen from various true tazettas. Many excellent big vigorous polyploid plants resulted, including this one which is ridiculously fertile! It closely resembles and…