Am enjoying an autumn full of daffodils. The tazettas started in summer and the first seed was collected on the 1st of March. Quite a few are flowering right now. The first viridiflorus hybrid flowered early April, which…
Autumn 2024
Author: Lawrence Trevanion, Australia
summer tazettas
This summer has been mild and wet in Canberra. The result is that tazettas started flowering in late January and quite a few are flowering a month later, which is still very early by usual standards. 19_67T is a standard…
Vale Graeme Brumley
I have been informed that Graeme Brumley passed away last Saturday. He turned 90 this year. Graeme was from a daffodil family and had a long standing involvement with daffodils and the Victorian Daffodil Society. His main breeding interest was…
pinwheel form
The breeding tradition has gone to a lot of trouble to eliminate the pinwheel form that is natural to some daffodils. It can be a very attractive form but developing it in daffodils with good substance texture and color won’t…
winter tazettas
Thanks John for the photos and reports. Wilf was very proud of Avalex and justifiably so. Canberra winters are not kind to tazettas. All considered my Gramon series do pretty well with some protection. Gramoneed. Gramonora. This year one stem…
winter pseudonarcissus
This year, for the first time, I had a pseudonarcissus flower before the winter solstice. It is a Cedric Morris seedling that opened on the 18th of June. The flower finally collapsed a couple of days ago. The first big…