For The Bench

An older all-golden show flower Nial Watson's Janet's Gold is always poised to perform in competition : form, color, substance. New to us this year.

Jenna, a small cup Yellow/Red is a show-worthy daff from Clive Postles. Small numbers available.

Everyone wants a date with Jodi when they see her, few will get her number. If she looks delicate and retiring it is because she is. A delicate pink split cup from the Cupid's arrow of Brian Duncan. We have just a few to offer again this year. Limit two per order please.

When the laundress sees the red lipstick on the collar of your starched white button-down she will know that you too have been Juliet's Choice. Just a handful of bulbs available.

A remarkable, floriferous, and joyous jonquil that has all but disappeared from the commercial trade. Strength in numbers. Named for the Anasazi god of fertility by breeder Bob Spotts.

All white La Delicatesse is a well-named large cup. Refined and elegant the frilled trumpet makes you look twice, and then again. A balance of detail and form, a superior cultivar all around. La DÈlicatesse is a proven winner on the show bench. Four inch flowers bloom above the foliage. the leaves.

Smooth and rounded swell pink large cup. Ladymeade's intense color comes from her being a part of the Dailmanach Dynasty.

The much sought after Lavender Hope is back again this year, in slightly larger numbers. Another member of the house of Dailmanach, this time via Dr. John Reed.

The thing the most unlike an all-yellow trumpet daffodil is an all-yellow small cupped daffodil. Somehow it is in the color -- think Arona, Hollowbridge, Lemon Choice. Not a sour choice at all.

Pucker up for this unusual split cup. White with a wild and wavy lobed pink corona. Recent introduction from Carlos van der Veek.

When you need a substantial reverse bi-color trumpet this one stands out. Lighthouse Reef is as contrasty, smooth and substantial as it gets. Ovate petals with a smooth substance overall. Perhaps we repeated ourselves but still not an overstatement.

Inheriting floriferousness from her mother and green color from her father Lima's Green Goddess is a fall blooming viridiflorus cross. These daffodils like to be high and dry in summer dormancy and will awake around October first. They go dormant in the late spring, and are somewhat cold hardy, but there are limits.

To read more about the genesis in modern narcissus viridiflorus breeding go HERE.

It is not often that a yellow trumpet is found adjacent to the term Intermediate . But Little Alfred sports all of the trumpet flanged and notched cupped bling that you want, but with a "seen not heard" modesty that you like. Lovely color, form and detail. Increases. We think Little Alfred is a candidate for pot culture. ADS Intermediate.

We are pleased to list this miniature white pink cupped tazetta by Harold Koopowitz. Little Dianne is unique and feminine, full of color, fine form, detail and fragrance. Makes you loath to leave the ranch in springtime. Limited stock

Little Rusky is a really, really little Jonquil. Like the other bigger Ruskies we know, he is intense and rewards with painstaking attention to detail. When you catch a flash of the green eye, you too will understand. Handsome as the Tsar in form and color.

Miniatures can have a reputation of going AWOL after a season or two. Little Rusky has returned for duty, increasing, over the years for us with little care at all. The scape pushes the long lasting blooms higher and higher as the late season progresses. ADS Miniature.

A remarkably bright performer of the pseudo narcissus type. On first glance Little Spell might be mistaken for Gipsy Queen. Lovely little thing. Registered as a Yellow-Yellow, but how is this not a reverse bi-color ?

We are very enamored with Little Spring King, he is one of Carlo's smaller-sized seedlings.Consistently cute as Prince Harry : royal good posture, radiates confidence and blooms well out of the leaves. A triple threat : good for pot culture, good for the rockery, good for exhibition.

Little Surprise is recent small, yellow cyclamineus from Brian Duncan. Species cyclamineus x species poeticus. Even colored, reflexed with a little, wrinkled, pug-nosed cup.

When the fees from the streaming service for viewing Love Actually start to show up on my charge card I know that Christmas time has arrived at our house. As much as we too like to see Hugh Grant prance and flirt, when this all white large cup from Carlos van der Veek starts throwing blooms likewise we know that Spring and daffodil show time has arrived. Showing up at a daffodil show with this affordable daff is like arriving anywhere with a rom-com movie star on your arm. Great form and geometry, easy to find a winning stem. Registered in 2026.

The classification Jonquils: yellow with pink cups is the most rarefied class. ( I checked the numbers) . Aside from the successful Blushing Lady, Brian Duncan's Love Me Tender is one of the rare examples in commerce. Elvis may have left the building but Love Me Tender is just getting started.

We just did a check and we have at one time or another listed a lot of John Gibson's Daffodils, maybe half of his lifetime registrations. Love to Dream a large all white trumpet with a certain amount of blingy attitude is very much in the vein of impressive English show flowers. Registered in 2026.

Love You More ! You Bethca ! A shapely and robust large cupped trumpet from Carlos van der Veek. Lovely ivory white color with fabulous substance. While the perianth may be a bit ribby for the Judges, the overall form of this flower is impressive -- with a little primping I think it has ribbon winning potential. Pricing allows for landscape planting.

Yellow Pink doubles are unicorns, Lowena has the deepest yellow and pink colors of the breed. From New Zealand.

Lucifer waves, winks, and beckons in the landscape. Star shaped with a rich colored cup that is variable with age. Angelic and demonic, a truly great landscape daffodil. ADS Historic. Limited.

Please contact me if your club would like to make a mass public planting of historics.

Another show quality, soft yellow on yellow small cup from Brian Duncan.

Abbra-narcissus-cadabra. When offered Magic Charm for sale we jumped at the chance like a leprechaun. A worthy descendant of the legendary Magician which you likely will not find, and certainly not at this price. A fabulous, older, Haven White / Red large cup.

Not Black magic, but Pink Irish magic. Magician's Choice is Brian Duncan's take on the legendary daffodil Magician. A s ubstantial Pink Cup for the show bench.

Prim and proper and a contender for the show bench. A head to head competitor Majestic Gold is a deep and evenly colored gold trumpet. A straightforward and balanced bloom.