I was delighted to learn from Theo that N. b. graellsii is a tetraploid. It is one of my favourite bulbocodiums though quite variable in form and size. Nore recently…
Osprey nest
DaffNetters – Many of you have been to an ADS convention (or two!) in Portland, Oregon and enjoyed a bus tour to the Pacific Coast. Seaside, Oregon was usually the…
Some 7 8 10’s and fertility updates
The highlight of the winter so far has been Graeme Brumley’s pink viridiflorus hybrid Brumley 915 (My Word x N. viridiflorus). It opens green and matures to a clear persistent…
Bambi
We have had a relatively mild, but wet, winter in Christchurch with few frosts. Each year I judge my season by when Bambi opens and take August 10th as normal.…
New Zone 3-7 Daffodil Primer
Good morning! We have a new item in the WebStore. It is a Zone 3-7 Daffodil Primer thanks to the hard work of Suzy Wert, Jim Wilson and Sara Kinne…
Help Please
Hi Folks, Much to my chagrin our Horticultural Society is getting rid of our old Library books. Amongst them I have found a 1914 RHS Daffodil Year Book in reasonable…
2018 June Issue of The Daffodil Journal
Hello all, I am deeply sorry to be announcing another delay in the distribution of another Journal issue, but our graphic designer’s computer crashed during production and our templates and…
Daffodil Digging Time
It’s daffodil digging time again. I’m hard at it, and will have a lot of bulbs to sale, or to dispose of one way or another this fall. If you…
Something is eating Alice’s Daffodil Bulbs.
Hi all I thought this might be a good time to share some stories with Alice who just wrote us about her Daffodil Bulbs being eaten. Alice says: “””My sister…
N. bulbocodium x standard daffodils
I was interested in Theo Sanders piece about tetraploid N. b. graellsii crossing with standard daffodils. I wonder if he means all graellsii are tetra ploid or just the larger…
Can anyone identify this Daffodil?
Hi all We had someone contact us for an identification. I’m afraid I don’t recognize it. This is how Andrea describes this Daffodil “”Does someone at the ADS identify daffodils?…
Crosses of tetraploid standard daffodils with N. bulbocodium graellsii are possible
For many years hybridizers have tried to combine N. bulbocodium with standard daffodils. The success was minimal. Now a solution of the problem has been found: N. bulbocodium graellsii…
‘Liffey Falls’ 5 Y-Y
Please can you help? The cultivar ‘Liffey Falls’ (bred by Geoff Temple-Smith, Australia) was registered in 2003 as 5 Y-Y. The image provided at registration shows yellow in the flowers…
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