Wilfred Hall, New Zealand
Wilfred Hall commenced raising daffodils in the 1970's when living in the Waikato – Koanga Daffodils territory. He became interested in raising autumn and winter flowering tazettas but changed to trying to raise some that would flower during the show season. Using mainly Matador, Grand Monarque and Avalanche as parents, he soon learnt that these parents were not that easy to hybridise and that seedlings were invariably sterile, but he persisted because so few were being raised world-wide. Wilf has recently paid more attention to raising poets, especially those not having the traditional corona coloring. He is currently using pollen from orange/red corona poets to try and get more colors in the tazetta seedling coronas. When time permits, he is also dabbling in hybridizing Intermediates.
Wilfred was secretary of the National Daffodil Society of N.Z. for 25 years, and is the Secretary / Treasurer of the Central Daffodil Group whose members come from the lower third of the North Island. He composes articles for the N.D.S. Annual on a variety of daffodil related topics, and speaks to many garden clubs, horticultural societies and other groups on growing daffodils in the home garden and hybridizing. Wilf spoke about his tazetta hybridizing at the A.D.S. Board Meeting weekend in Nashville, Tennessee during 2012.
Wilfred is the Registrar of Daffodils for New Zealand, a Life Member of the National Daffodil Society of N.Z. and the Northern Daffodil Club, and a David Bell Medal holder for his hybridizing work. He currently grows daffodils north of Levin, 100km north of the Capitol, Wellington.
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