Also a very bright all yellow tazetta seedling — similar to Winter Sun and Kapiti Mayflower but much earlier. We took a minor road heading home to avoid road reconstruction. Stopped to photo this record of the big floods …
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Category: Hybridizer
Information from and about hybridizers around the world.
Keukenhof May 2008
Okay, I have been lurking on daffnet for a few months and enjoy the posts. I do not have much to contribute as I am not a hybridizer and have yet to enter any shows. But as it has been requested that…
Planting depth in nature
It would make sense to cover up the daffodil seeds to keep the sun from drying them out completely and or slugs and snails from eating them and all the other creatures that might like to eat them. In nature…
Flore Pleno
Hi all, I’m on holiday at the moment so haven’t fully followed the discussion on flore pleno. I have a cultivar which I’ve always called N jonquilla flore pleno. It is not recognised as a species but has all the…
Looking at pollen (2)
The same speculations made for fertile NNJ can be done for NNTr, for example Silver Bells, which is fertile and I think in many cases forms NTr-Pollen and egg cells. Equivalent crosses as with NNJ can be made.The result of Silver Bells (NNTr plus one chromosome) crossed with…
Looking at pollen (1)
A warning at the beginning.The following text will be a horror for normal daffodil freaks. It is for younger hybridizers only, perhaps up to an age of 80, because the results of the remarks in form of nice daffodils can be seen…