Category: Seedling

Photographs and discussions about seedlings.

2022 Connecticut Daffodil Show-Greenwich, CT Pictures

The 2022 Connecticut Daffodil Show in Greenwich, CT was open to the public on Wed April 20th, and Thursday April 21st. This was the first show in CT in three years. There were more that 1000 blooms at the show…

The future of the ADS

Start them young I say.  Got my granddaughter interested in hybridizing at 3.  Now that she’s 4 she is inspecting her seedlings and helping with pollenating again this season. Has a youth ever won a Carey E. Quinn Award?  …

WDS Show 9-10 April

I’m not the official spokesman for WDS however I was there for the judging yesterday and have some pictures and some winners. It was the first show in three years and it was great to be able to see many…

Black seedhead

Dear All, Most of you will remember the Black seedhead of Brook Ager pollinated by a Bumblebee that I posted last spring. I have attached the picture if you have forgotten. I obtained 14 seeds from it and today I…

Daffodil flag taken down for the year.

I watched the last daffodils melt in the heat this weekend.  Three poets a div 3 and a division 7 were the last open this season.  Seed set was terrible for the early crosses with only two successful in Oakdale…