These pictures were made yesterday near Conil de la Frontera (Southern Spain). The soil is extremely dry. I needed a big hammer and a bit to dig out the bulbs.…
Tazettas by Bill Welch
I wanted to share the many wonderful tazettas supplied by Bill Welch in California, like him my favorite division is 8 and the division I mostly hybridize in. I have…
Summer census
By the end of summer 7 tazetta varieties have flowered: – two 8Y-O, one 8W-Y and four 8W-O. The first, 14_05T is quite nice. It still has a few florets…
Brook’s Bears; 8Y-O
Thank you Bob Spotts! It blooms with abandonment for me. Bob always said the cup color reminded him of my daughter, Brooke’s hair color. She came with me for an…
Fred Silcock’s Pride and Glory
A “tradition” of the Kyneton Daffodil Show, a “must-see” for those with a hunger for innovative breeding was a display, usually of five vases of Fred Silcock’s seedlings. Here are…
N. italicus Blooming in GA
Prior to the late John Lipscomb’s property being sold, Georgia Daffodil Society members were invited to come dig. And we did! This clump of N. italicus sat for 3 years,…
Daffodils around homesteads
Good morning all This question sounded like something many of you would want to discuss. frank From: Laura Smith Subject: Daffodils at Chickamauga Battlefield Message Body: I visited Chickamauga Battlefield…
Chinese Sacred Lily highly fertile offspring
I produced the first ever batch of Single Chinese Sacred Lily seeds about 10 years ago using pollen from various true tazettas. Many excellent big vigorous polyploid plants resulted, including…
Interesting Viridiflorus seedling
This seedling is Fascination Waltz (an intermediate trumpet) x Dubose J11-2, (Evenlode x viridiflorus) Used Fascination Waltz hoping to increase the length of the corona and hoping for green color…
Fred Silcock Has Died
Fred Silcock, one of the world’s finest daffodil hybridizers, left this earth on February 7, 2019 after a short illness. Fred’s magnificent seedlings were not widely known because he avoided…
Optimum temperature for pollination
Dear All, Having never had any success with early pollination, last year my crosses were all blown away by the Beast from the East! So this year I have two…
First Flowers Downunder
This year most of the tazettas were planted early, shaded, and watered. In spite of high temperatures one seedling 14_05T has flowered earlier than any daffodil has flowered here. It…
Margaret Ford
Dear ADS friends: I just learn Margaret Ford, wife of Skip Ford, passed today. She was an ADS judge, avid daffodil grower and shower here in my home state of…
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