It's Daffodil Time! Let's share some pics?!

This is the sweetest tiny daff! N. canaliculatus:

'Ice Wings' with 'Pink Impression' tulips:

One of my favorites, 'Geranium' fills the air with it's fragrance.

'Decoy' is one of my favorite pinks. The cup is a nice salmon color.

'Jubilee' is another pink I really like.

'Texas', a big double with primula:

The sun gave a glare, but this is 'Minnow', another little sweetie.

A mystery double:

Another of my favorites, 'Thalia'. Very graceful; looks like butterflies in the breeze, and smells wonderful.

OK, Gem, that's enough!!! I''m dying of garden envy today from your posts! Especially love your plant combination shots--the one of n. canalacalatus with the hosta, for example. But I love them all.

My daffs are about done--I do have some late 'acropolis' and yellow and white 'cheerfulness' in bloom with the azaleas.

A new link for all Narcissus'philes, over 7500 pictures that are searchable!. Have fun looking... :)

http://frodo.tackettblake.com/query/ads-query.php


Bill

Hi, moko--

That is a wonderful daffodil website/data base. Thank you for giving us the link.

I have been on the ADS website often during the past several weeks and haven't seen that particular link there although the ADS is noted as the 'sponsors' on the 'frodo.tackettblake' website address. Is the database link there and I can't see it/find it for some reason? It does seem like the ADS re-arranged or added information to their website, doesn't it?

Whoever was behind it really put in a lot of research and work and thanks very much!

I just saw Marylou Gripshover (president of the American Daffodil Society) at our local Daffodil Society meeting and we talked about the internet and daffodil research/information and how useful her Suite 101 articles were. She said she no longer writes the articles for suite 101. Maybe she has worked on this database, though, or the ADS website. ...

Anyway, thanks again for the great link. t.

Tabasco, something I could'nt capture in a pic that I think you'd appreciate were some fun and unexpected echos of color and form. 'Sound' and N.canaliculaticus are interesting to the eye duplicating the same color combination in giant and mini. And 'Geranium' nearby echos the form of N.canaliculaticus. I don't believe the bloom times will match up next year quite the same though, since some were planted very late.

And to add to the difficult task of planning the timing of bloom combinations, I'm finding other factors this year at play. Not only have I seen big differences in bloom times according to when the bulbs were planted (late planted Muscari,Darwin Hybrid tulips and several daffs have bloomed after the same established varieties were nearly done), but the weather this year has changed it from last year as well. When spring suddenly turned extra warm and stayed that way, all the later blooming things went into overdrive and caught up with others that have normally not been in bloom at the same time. So now that's my excuse for "needing" to try some of every little blue bulb and daff I can to ensure the right colors are in bloom together each spring!

gem-- It's interesting to read your analysis and details of your daff combinations. I was wondering the same about the warm spring and how that may have affected bloom times and combinations. I am going to copy and paste your post and put it in my diary for reference next year.

My favorite website on 'daffodil phenomenology' has 'gone away'--someone recorded all the daffodil bloom times in their Ohio garden over the past 15 years or so from their garden--very helpful for me--but the the site disappeared. Does anyone know where it went?

I have just a few daffs still blooming--'hawera', 'happy moon' and 'acropolis'...

Tabasco,

I first got wind of this site through the SRGC forums and posted it here. Here is the letter with credits that I recieved from Daffnet a day later, And your right, Mary Lou Gripshover was very instramental in this project.


Hi Everyone,

Ben and I want to thank George for sending a quick announcement out about the Photo Database which now available to all Internet users. Since this is an ADS sponsored project, we wanted the ADS Board to receive this news first, as this project has been on their 'radar' for some time now.

This release of the Photo Database will be considered as our baseline version of the program, data, and photos. A number of enhancements are planned including improved fertility data and inclusion of species data and photos. We believe the number of photos will steadily increase.

Just a few statistics as there will be a follow up article in the ADS Journal with the full story: we received over 9,000 photographs and after eliminating duplicate photo submissions we able to insert over 7,500 photos into this first version of the database and with over 16,000 data records.

We would like to thank some very special people that helped make this system First, we want to thank Mary Lou Gripshover for her tireless efforts to provide us accurate data records and a multitude of photos. Mary Lou was also a superb software tester and provided exceptional data/photograph 'QA' (quality assurance) . Thank you Mary Lou...this project would not be where it is today without you!

We would like to thank Kirby Fong for contributing well over 3,000 beautiful photographs from his personal collection. Kirby's delivered the last CD of 1,000 photos just in time for our final load of the database. Thank you Kirby!

We would like to thank Tony James. Tony not only provided a multitude of photographs, but also performed very tedious 'functional' testing. He thoroughly exercised the query capability and provided valuable feedback. Thank you Tony!

We would like to thank Peter and Lesley Ramsay for testing the query system and especially for providing us with invaluable cheerleading! Thank you President and Vice President of our fan club!

Others that provided testing support and important advice are Bob Spotts, Harold Koopowitz,
Beck Fox Matthews, Sally Kington of the RHS, and the attendees of the ADS Fall Pacific Regional Meeting.

We hope you all enjoy using this new system. Please feel free to send Ben and I your ideas and feedback and thank you for complimentary emails.

Ben Blake and Nancy Tackett

moko,

Thanks for all the good background on the new database. Already a wonderful resource and it sounds like it's only going to get better!

It seems that the Northern California Daffodil Society members are a big force in the development.

For those who are interested, the link for the NCDS is http://www.daffodil.org/ I think DG member ladyrowan is a NCDS member and goes to their shows.

Here's a pic of ADS President Marylou Gripshover at the 2006 Midwest Regional Daffodil Show here in Cincinnati this year.