My Garden, April 30th, 2001
Just for Brian Duncan's information, 'Fresno' his late 3W-R is being itself again this year and is still in bud. I've only gotten it to open early enough for one show in the past five years, and it was in a winning collection.
Here is my best-in-show for the week, Moon Rythym 3Y-O. It's a soft orange and this picture is the same color as it is in the "flesh."
The division 3s in my garden are doing there wonderful interpretation of beauty again, and I just love them for that. I started out with a strong collection of division 3 daffodils from the late Marie Bozievich, and I have continued that tradition of maintaining a superior collection of division three short cupped daffodils.
However, another late division 3 daffodil that is always a show winner is 'Spindletop' 2W-Y, when it blooms early enough to get it into a show. It's another beautiful one hybridized by Virginia's own, Bill Pannill. It seems that every daffodil I have has a story behind it. I will always remember 'Spindletop' as the daffodil that I labeled as 3W-GYY in a tense moment at a show in Richmond, because it has a green center. It's correct labeling is 3W-Y, which was all important to the judges and someone else got the blue ribbon.
'Spindletop' has a neck that's quoted as being too long, but just keeps on winning blue ribbons at the shows. When you are really good, you can win, just ask 'Spindletop'.
At one time the poeticus daffodils were called the "real" daffodils and all other were considered to be of minor origin. However, we now know that all daffodils are in the same narcissus family of plants.
My poets opened under a strong eighties sun and "sunburned" as they were opening. 'Poet's Way' is one of the numerous division 9 poeticus daffodils that are just coming into bloom. Others division 9 poeticus include 'Hexameter' 9w-gyr, 'Array' 9w-gyr, and 'Angel Eyes' 9w-gyo. 'Killearnan', my best division 9 is a little earlier and "way" past it's prime.
Divisions 7, 3, and 9 does not include all the late daffodils, in the garden, however, they are other representative of the late daffodil garden. Below is an example of the Split Corona daffodils, and a division 5 triandrus daffodils. As a grower of all thirteen divisions of daffodils, these two divisions represent important sections of my show
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