Just as the very last flowers of the very late poet wither a bulbocodium decides to send up a last flower. With temperatures of 35C what was it thinking? Not surprisingly, most seed pods have ripened.
Last final encore
Category: Seeds
12 Aug Gold Step breeding
Daffnet is very quiet. Gold Step (Alfriston x bulbocodium) has not started yet but some of its progeny have. Seeds first collected from it in 2006 can now be judged to have been self pollinated because they are markedly different…
Seed Giveaway-FREE of charge!
To anyone–both International and USA: If you are interested in tazettas or poetaz I have extra o.p. seeds available FREE of charge! 3 categories: 1) Fertile tetraploid poetaz (bred from tetraploid Klondyke, Yellow Butterfly, Matador, Matador x (Autumn Sol x…
First flower up-over (or down-under)
I’ve been really enjoying the pictures being put up. Keep them coming. I can now boast that I have flowers of my own. 07_04T, a sibling of First Stanza’s, is proving to be reliably the first to flower here, excepting…
In Bloom over the Past Week
The first photo is from seed sent by my friend, the late Delia Bankhead. It is from Mary Lou Gripshover’s [(Northam x O. P.) x O. P.] This is one of my seedlings and one…
Miniature White N. cyclamineus Type Hybrid
I consider this to be an “advanced” Miniature cross that is five generations away from the species. It becomes pristine white at maturity, The seed parent of this flower is the yellow N. cyclamineus hybrid (V94-205-9). …