After 20 + years of showing daffodils, I have found that some old time daffodil people think me a fraud because they think I simply took over Marie Bozievich’s show…
The inheritance of recessive and dominant mutations in daffodil cultivars
This is the title of an article from Peter Brandham in the “Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook 2017, pages 26-32”. Essential statements in this paper are: Pitfalls often occur, one…
Tour
Hi Folks, Our news tells us that Minnesota is very cold with deep snow. It seems hard to believe that the Northern Hemisphere show season is only a few weeks…
Paper Whites & Alcohol
Brent Heath will tell you if you want a pot of daffodils to have short foliage and shorter sturdier bloom stalks that you need more bright light. Growing pots indoors…
‘Yuletide" greetings of the Season
For your holiday enjoyment: the bulbocodum hybrid, ‘Yuletide’, and Camellia sasanqua ‘Yuletide”— putting on a joint Yuletide seasonal show in my garden, USDA Zone 8b in middle Georgia (southeastern USA).…
Paper Whites & Alcohol
I was at a garden club meeting today and they were handing out a paper that said if you added alcohol to the water of paper whites it would keep…
Daffodil Bulbs – Thanks
Today is Pearl Harbor Day. A day to remember. I want to thank all the daffodil societies that took my excess bulbs this fall, with special mention to Dallas, Louisiana,…
‘Verdant Sparks’
My stocks of ‘Verdant Sparks’ have multiplied satisfactorily. It was down to only a couple of bulbs a few years ago. Here is the row today with masses of the…
Special day for John Hunter
Happy Birthday to my “down under” twin; we were born on the same day in the same year and nearly the same time. John, I hope you have a wonderful…
New generation Autumn Colors
I had the pleasure of receiving the latest generation of Autumn Colors by Bill Welch this season. I spoke to him over the phone and he informed me that he…
Cyclamineus x viridiflorus
Here is a photo of a cyclamineus x viridiflorus cross that bloomed a few days ago. Of course, was hoping to get more green in the flower and a longer…
Pennings trip to China
Last week we were in China on invitation of the Daffodil growers. We had a very good time.We saw Daffodil planting But also in flower on a big show. At…
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