but I really think I saw some light yellow ones blooming the other day in front of a house. they were smaller and looked like the double ones that bloom here in the spring. Could you maybe get a pic or ask the neighbor what they are? I did a search for thos fall blooming daffodils, could not find any offered for sale in the US. All the sites offering them were in the UK. If anybody knows of any, it would be helpful to post it. Ok, I found an article covering several of them. They are not very hardy...writer is in Ohio and says the winters are too cold to grow them outdoors unprotected. Here is the article Fall and Winter Blooming Daffodils. Page 2 of the article lists sources. It lists the site below as having some fall bloomers available. Sue Here is a link that might be useful: Nancy R. Wilson SPECIES & MINIATURE NARCISSUS

Just updating this old thread because I used the info. here to deal with an infestation of borers in my plants, and wanted to add that if you are going to do the soaking treatment, definitely soak 24 hours as stated above - don't cheat! I soaked about 30 rhizomes in a 10% bleach solution for 12 hours. After a short time in the water, two fat borers came out of two plants. over the course of a couple of hours, a couple more came out, then no more. I knew there were borers in the other plants, because I could see their holes. I left them soaking over night and figured after 12 hours, any that were still in there were surely drowned. So, I took them out and laid them out to dry. The next morning I came out to check on them, and there were two borers poking their ugly heads out, still alive. They didn't seem well, but they were most certainly not dead. So, a word of warning - 12 hours in bleach is not enough to kill these persistent buggers!

Whitegarden, send me an email about winter sowing anytime. All those seedlings, including the tomato seedlings, you've brought home from my plant swap, the past 2 years are all wintersown seedlings. Just think about all those containers, inside my fenced in yard in the back and those are all wintersown seedlings. Though, the term winter sowing implies that you "must do" this during the winter months, it really is a misnomer to think that. Unless you are sowing seeds that truly need a long cold stratification, you don't really have to start sowing seeds, even perennials until April, if you don't want to. I've been wintersowing for 8 years, year 9 is coming up this year and I've found that the overall germination of the seeds doesn't change much. That is to say, depending on the seeds, they will germinate at the same time each year, regardless of when you sow them. Seeds sown in January, February, March, even starting in early April, will germinate when the time is right for them and the conditions are right for them to germinate. So if the seeds would normally germinate around the second week in April, getting them out in January vs April 1st will not make a difference, they will germinate around the same time each year. Some seeds germinate earlier than others, and nothing but mother nature will change that. All of the seedlings that I had for the swap, the ones in my back yard that where not for the swap, all where sown from April 8th on. Just lots and lots of things well out of my control prevented me from doing any Winter sowing before April 8th, and the results where no different than if I had started in January or February. ONe other thing, the containers for WS must be outside in the open to get the snow/rain, etc directly on them. inside will not work, such as a barn, covered porch etc. Fran

Total newbie here!! Never ever germinated a thing and now I’m trying rainbow rose bushes and iris seedlings! Any tips/pointers/ideas for iris’s? My car killed off all my previous ones and/or they no longer bloom and I want a million beautiful and different colored blooms and gorgeous styles!!! I live in south Texas, San Antonio, so we have like one week tops of winter weather!! I’m trying to find great advice, preferably step by step for this blonde, or a great website that can help guide me! I want to do it all perfectly so if it’s a total failure... I know never to try again. If there are any experts out there who have had great success in seedlings all the way to gorgeous seasonal blooms, please share? I super duper appreciate it!!