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
Category: Seeds
Many 2019 seedlings are blooming in 5 years
Over the last 14 years I’ve been trying to perfect my raising of seedlings so I can get flowers in 5 years. Previous years I’ve gotten blooms in typically 6-8 years. I’ve concluded 3 things have helped. Plant seed ASAP…
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…
2024 ADS Virtual Winter Break
Those that missed yesterday’s ADS zoom (Saturday) missed some excellent information from Lawrence’s talk about Australia’s Daffodils to Harold’s talk on hybridizing and making of daffodil seeds. As a hybridizer I enjoyed both very much. As a pollen dabber, I…
The former. . . Hybridizer’s Round Robin
To Becky Fox Mathews, Mike Berringer, Bill Carter, Mitch Carney, Harold Koopowitz, Bob Spots, Mary Lou Gripshover, Janet Hickman and all hybridizers and those that want to be hybridizers: I recently had a email conversation of sorts with Sara Van…
Dry Spring has made a big difference in a sucsessful seed set
I keep good records on crosses and seed set. This year has been a banner year. Past years I’ve made between 30 and 55% of my crosses actually making seed. This year it is at ~80% and the number of…