For The Bench

A shorter snouted large cup that is richly colored and rich in substance all over. Canny Choice is very much a show daffodil- there is more orange to coax out of the cup than we show here. Doesn't sunburn. Canny choosers choose Canny Choice.

A reverse bi-color with soft even coloration and nearly oval, overlapping petals. Caribbean Snow is very good on the show bench : we had no problem getting perfect blooms , consistently. Also good in bed : Castle Acre is an offspring.

Very floriferous and very tall yellow and orange Tazetta. A perfect thing, likely a Poetaz , from Bill Pannill. Fantastic imposing plant, olé.

A very substantial reverse bi-color, a daughter of Caribbean Snow, but a full and contrasty trumpet. Besides being stunning this seedling never throws a damaged bloom for us with lovely substance. Good on color, stem and substance. Ribbon winning candidate.

A very small, all golden yellow Bulbocodium from Walter Blom.

Where were you when you first saw Chipper? A meteor shower of vertically pendant blooms with compound color leaving a trail of wavy and reflexed petals. One to start a collection with, one to end with. We hang out together with Chipper a lot in the Spring.

A delicate flower, a cross of Limequilla and species triandrus. Pale relexed petals, rich, pendant, and bulbous, cup. We find Churchfield Bells attractive and memorable in the mixed border, more than other triandrus, for reasons we cannot verbalize.

Sired by Corofin, Clovelly Ayr is a bright and scented late poeticus from Ron Scamp.

A white large cupped daffodil from Clive Postles with a very softly colored yellow cup, for competition.

A large cupped Yellow / Orange with a distinct narrow snout. With his broad perianth Corby is surely suited for competition.

From Trigonometry and Diversity, Cosine is a Brian Duncan Split cup with a broad, and only slightly interrupted, coral-colored corona. Limited quantities.

A slim and colorful jonquil, proving you can never be too slender or too pink. Fragrant, floriferous and vigorous.

Flair, fun, and fansome : Country Roads is like a colorful Ice Follies all dolled up for a trip to town. Not at all dusty but rather tall, straight, and striking in the border. Like all things Van Der Veek, Country Roads gives good stem.

Here is an intensely colored Orange / Red large cup that is fecund. Offspring include Rockin Goose, Cameo Flush and Hot Lava. Creag Dubh is daffodil for the competition and for breeding.

Croila is an English, all-white, show daff that has been winning ribbons for many decades now. New our list, Croila makes a perfect perianth with substance and has many descendents.

A breathtaking small-cup of great restfulness and beauty, Crystal Choice is all white with a wide, wide perianth. A perfect bloom maker, but with some vulnerability. Brian Duncan.

A miniature, rich yellow jonquil, Curlylocks is bright and ruffly - all of the charm and companionship of a lap dog without the shedding. One to three one inch pugnacious blooms on a scape. US bred. Rare. ADS Classic.

Being on the Cutting Edge implies on the vanguard, with a hint of danger. But this Clive Postles orange cupped trumpet easily makes a very large, well rounded bloom with not a knick, a cut or even razor burn. An impressive and dependable full colored bloom.

Broad white petals with a coy green eye. Much Sought after. ADS Historic, ADS Classic. Tall and late, it plays well with others: We put it on the May floral market. A bloom of great beauty and poise that defines elegance : one we cannot imagine living without. A proud parent both ways.

Broad hexagonal white and peach split cup will put a hex on your garden bed. Kind of like dancing the tarantella, but for daffodils. Recent van der Veek introduction.

Colin Crotty has bred numerous daffodils with deep red in the cup rim. We enjoyed growing Deb's Jewel a lot : we got extreme frilliness and rich contrasty color but maybe not the intense red that we have seen from other environs on the bench. Something easy to take to a daffodil show. Deb's Jewel is an exuberant bloom from New Zealand.

If you had a flat face with a broad pink rim perhaps your mother would have named you Dena too. Dena the Daff is so popular we can't keep her in stock. With a face like that we would be just as popular too. From Brian Duncan.

The jonquilla Desert Bells makes two or four tidy and flattened white flowers per scape. Cup mellows to a light lemon. A late blooming dwarf that is at ease in the rock garden, in the pot or on the bench. Show winner. By Grant Mitsch.

A floriferous and feral thing, Diamond Gold is a newer, open pollinated Jonquil from Walter Blom.

A New Zealand bred stout and sturdy bi-colored trumpet. Doctor Bill is a descendant of the substantive POPS legacy.

If this is what histrionic behavior in a flower looks like then bring it on. Remarkable color and form in Brian Duncan's split-cupped Drama Queen. Limited.

A formidable all-white small cup Draycote Water is descended from Princess Zaide who is disappearing from the commercial trade. Like its father Draycote excels in the landscape and on the show bench. Maybe a bit better at both if you are looking for a white small cup, that is.

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