It did my heart good to see that Ice Follies 2W-W has off-spring that has Y and O in the color code. I was laughed at in the GCV show in Richmond yesterday for having an Ice Follies seedling in…
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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…
Hybridizing problems
Some hybridizers give seedling numbers the minute they plant the seeds. I usually keep the seedling under the cross name until they start blooming. Here’s a problem that I get often when I give the seedling a number before they…
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 ADS loses a legend
Yesterday when the mail came, there was an envelope with the name ‘Becky Gould Gibson” on the back, with a Winston-Salem, N.C. address, and I knew “Bill’s gone.” Bill Gould died at age 98, on August 11, and as Becky said, “He had a…
What is flowering now in Canberra
Hi Nothing like a bit of rain and some moisture to speed the season along a bit. A lot of miniatures are flowering but the first of the standards and tazettas have started to flower.