For The Bench

Dunstan's Fire is a very orderly and color-contrasty yellow/orange trumpet. With a rounded perianth and notched and crenated cup Dunstan is a very good show daffodil and would be thrilling in the landscape. Except that we have only a few, not even enough to fill a window box. Now you know what to do.

Eden Song is a pink cup descended from Chanson, but is a large cup not a trumpet.

Englander is a cyclamineus seedling that retains just a bit of wildness tempered with high sophistication. Sporting a real long schnoz and slim reflexed petals. Like most Brits, Englander, being a cyclamineus, is not well suited for a afternoon siesta in the blazing sun. An ADS miniature . Fab in the pot and the rockery -- Don't be shy, we grew a lot of Englander.

A millennial, well read, well bred and well fed reverse bi-color trumpet, but with a ring of lemon curd around the snout.

Late blooming all white large cup. Very small stock. Eve Robertson

Evesham. Very few bulbs available.

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Unusual, unmistakeable and unforgettable Fencourt Jewel is a unique 21st century pink cupped tazetta. Floriferous : beauty and bounty from New Zealand. A truly grand flower. For us in zone 6b it is wonderfully persistent year over year. Worth every penny.

Fineshade is new to us : We are so looking forward to seeing this Yellow/Orange Trumpet on the competition bench. Only a few bulbs on offer.

Firebright

Reverse bi-colors are a bit rare, even more is the cyclaminius subset. Flight Path makes a beautiful bloom and is pollen fertile.

A reverse bi color that is strong on all points, weak on none. Consistent, rounded, dandy and neat with strong contrasting color, we find Flor d'Luna to be easily best in class. From Clive Postle in his salad days.

Shallow bowl shaped yellow to red small cup in a blunt white perianth. Very tall, very late and colorful. From New Zealand.

A Dr John Reed White / Pink large cup. Just a handful available.

When we get to your Garden Party will there be substance and color to be found there ? Will it be refreshing without sharp corners? Count us in. We may wander off the pathways and lean in to sniff the flowers. Maybe even pull a few weeds.

A child of the longstanding champion Goldfinger, Gentleman's Choice is only available in limited quantity.

A tiny all-white trumpet from Brian Duncan, Gipsy Vale is a cross ofObvallaris and Gipsy Queen. Coy, pugnacious and perfectly formed Gipsy Vale is a very good variety for competition.

You won't get a good enough seat in the Dress Circle to see Golden Symphony: she is poised, petite, pendant and perfumed. Part jonquilla thus the fragrance. From the prince of pizzicato Walter Blom. We assume that you can put this on the bench as a miniature. Will sell with allegro con brio.

I think that I will alway grow Greetham. It makes such a handsome an perfect bloom everytime that it allays my gardener's inferiority complex and bolsters confidence at show time. It has ribs, but in a strengthening positive way. Fabulous color.

A powerful double Habari's pink corona, often variable and changing , is always fetching and singular.

For being a bit obscure we have moderate numbers of Habit, a golden trumpet of great substance. Habit has notable children, mostly Californian, each with fit and crisply-shaped petals.

Just fills you with envy doesn't it ? Powerful contender for best in any show, no? Ovate and mucronate spinnaker-white petals as perfect as the compact red suction cupped-cup. Hartlebury is just unbeatable. Late 20th Century English narcissiculture.

Large and sunny, Hello Sunshine is a soft lemon colored behemoth of a trumpet from Carlos van der Veek. Perianth is ovate, shouldered and mucronate, the funnel-shaped cup is frilled and crenate. New Introduction, good supply available.

A mellow yellow small cup that just screams perfection. If I was packing for a daffodil show with grand and smooth aspirations I would pack Hollowbridge along with Abstruse.

Holme Fen

Wide white and yellow funnel-shaped small cup from Clive Postles. Fertile both ways.

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