We all accept that daffodils will very occasionally throw sports – different flowers from established , known parents , vegetatively propagated , not seed propagated . Probably the best known …
Titan
Does anyone know anything about the much advertised ‘Titan Pocket Scope’ at $46.95 ? It sounds too good to be true – and we all know about such things !…
Green bulbocodiums
Two seedlings from the cross N. romieuxii x 7G-G seedling are now open and these look promising. The few from this cross that flowered earlier were white, but these two…
2020 World Convention
Hi Folks, It is now only 20 months until the World Daffodil Convention in Canberra and I know that many of you are excited about the trip Down Under. This…
The fertility of seedlings from N. cavanillesii x Emerald Sea, N. cavanillesii x (Ballygowan x N. viridiflorus), and N. x xanthochlorus x (Ballygowan x N. viridiflorus)
Seedlings from the first two crosses have two chromosome sets (CC) from N. cavanillesii, one (V) from N. viridiflorus, and one (N) from a tetraploid standard daffodil. Seedlings of…
Something New
This is the first flower from a new cross now in bloom. A cream colored N. romieuxii was crossed with pollen from a 7G-G seedling. Normally the 7G-G flowers in…
It is fertile!
Earlier on in October I posted a picture of the seedling from N. cavanillesii x Emerald Sea. Brian Duncan suggested pollinating it. While I found this flower intriguing I had…
3847 – full face, 3847 – in profile
What’s the view? Is this seedling – Wow! ? Bah! ? Pretty ? Ugly ? Commercial ? A keeper ? A Discard ? Or shoot the breeder ? 3847 –…
Don Caton?
Don, if you’re on Daffnet, would you please contact me privately at ? I have a package for you and need your address. Thanks.
Recent autumn blooms
Here are the most recent autumn bloomers, most of these are autumn colors. Many thanks to Bill Welch and Bob Spotts who provided bulbs.
About the Fund Raising Campaign
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An Autumn Poetaz.
Four years ago in the autumn I flowered a bulb of ‘Max’s Poet’ that was being turned around from New Zealand. It coincided with the autumn tazetta N. obsoletus in…
smaller quantities of Zerotol
Here is a message from Anne. She is wanting to find smaller quantities of Zerotol to use when planting her bulbs. I wasn’t able to find a source. Does anyone…
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