If you cross standard daffodils with tazettas you get sometimes flowers like the monsters in the pictures. The first three plants died during a severe frost period; the last two…
Lewisboro Daffodils
Good morning I found an interesting article about the Lewisboro Garden Club and their project of planting Daffodils along their streets in the recent Country Gardens magazine. Lewisboro is north…
Oakwood Daffodils
Good afternoon I had a wonderful conversation with Dr Reed this afternoon. He is looking forward to spring. He is planning his 37th Oakwood Daffodils Catalog. Dr Reed wants everyone…
Tax Credit Letters
Good morning. I’ve been working non stop for the past several days trying to collect information about monies you may have donated to ADS in 2019 that are probably tax…
Possibility of intergeneric hybrids.
Reading about ×Howardara (a complex trigeneric hybrid involving species from Hippeastrum, Sprekelia, and Zephyranthes), as well as other intergeneric hybrids from the Amaryllidaceae, such as ×Amarcrinum, I was wondering about the…
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St Patricks Day 2006 – Happy people in front of a population of N. assoanus var praelongus near El Burgo, Spain. IMG_2195.jpg
Some breeding/fertility questions
I have a lot of tazettas blooming now and was looking through the pollen I collected last year to see what I might use for breeding. ‘Aspasia’ is my latest-blooming…
The fertility of NNNX daffodil varieties
The existing NNNX varieties you find in the table of the pdf file The fertility of nnnx daffodil varieties .More should be generated by hybridizers. Many of these plants are…
First daffodils of the year in the grocery store here
The first daffodils of the year have appeared in the grocery store. The ubiquitous ‘Tete-a-Tete’ and a yellow/red I can’t identify. Can anyone supply a name?
Basal rot treatment
A few prized tetraploid tazettas became infected with basal rot. I invented a treatment that successfully cured them. I am not scientist but a gardener and breeder of Narcissus who…
Australian fires
Any idea if daff folks are affected by the catastrophic fires?
Just an idea
Inspired by the insect Xylocopa violacea, I have had the idea of makeing a little window in the perianth tube to access the stigma without touching the anthers or cuttig…
Tazettas blooming December 26
Warm weather on Christmas Day opened a few tazettas for me. Here are potted ‘Nir’, one of the Autumn Colors group, and ‘Autumn Pearl’ side-by-side. The ‘Autumn Pearl’ is in…
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