For The Bench

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.

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.

When offered Magic Charm for sale we jumped at the chance like a leprechaun. A fabulous, older, Haven White / Red large cup. Movie star presence.

Not Black magic, but Pink Irish magic. Substantial Pink Cup for the show bench.

Unlike many split cups Maria Pia's corona face is round, flat, and unfrilly. The overall design of Maria is enough to take a ribbon. If you can coax that deep red face out of her you will certainly take the class.

Martinette is a Tazetta crossed with a species jonquil by Harry Tuggle. It is a vigorous grower and fragrant. Aside from Geranium it is the tazetta that I see most often on the commercial cut flower market.

Mazzard has the truest pink color of any double narcissus we can think of, a full sized bloom on a plant that has a tidy form, every flower is perfect. I think the florists will like it. Perfection from Ron Scamp.

A viridiflorus cross of great substance and poise that has been around a quarter of a century already. So stunning it is more of a specimen than just another bloom.Mesa Verde blooms in early spring and is long lasting and quite cold tolerant. To read more about the genesis in modern narcissus viridiflorus breeding go HERE.

Millennium Orange

Alec Gray-bred daffodils dominate the commercial trade by sheer volume grown. Scores of acres of his highly successful, miniature tazetta Minnow are grown each year, mainly for pot culture. Minnowlet is an unexpected offspring of Minnow, being a small and neat monochromatic split cup. Two and a half inch flowers with concise Star of David petals, well designed collar.

Bill Welch's take on daffodil Avalanche. There is an easily recognized perfection to Miss Meliss blooms, she is genuinely tall, strong, floriferous, and fragrant. A truly great cultivar.

An older cyclamineus registered by Grant Mitch, Mite is a miniature and aside from not being particularly pendant, it retains a lot of cyclamineus spirit. Very fertile, Mite is a good surrogate for the species in breeding as the species cyclamineus are raised from seed. Way adorable and sophisticated, it is hard to not stare. ADS Miniature. ADS Classic.

It is hard to find a description of a bulbocodium that does not use the hackneyed term "whimsical", along with the appellation " Hoop Petticoats" which went out of style like a century before the demise of Poodle Skirts. Two thirds of all bulbocodiums registered have been registered in this century , the 21st.

This family of narcissus have a will to live and bloom against all odds. But their beauty comes also from being something primordial, naÔve and completely impractical in design. For such a small little flower they are full of pathos and joy. Mitimoto was bred in Tasmania and was one of the first products of a new wave in Bulbocodium breeding. A lot of drama in a petite plant. An ADS Miniature.

Montroig

Moon Madness

A perfectly rounded white and yellow small cup from Clive Postles. Cute as a button and promiscuous. Very limited.

We are running out of synonyms for ostentatious to describe Carlo's lovely seedlings. Superfly, fancy, fancy-pants, yes a fancy-pants trumpet, white until the frilly yellow corona's edge. Vigorous grower, not registered, new introduction in 2023.

My Sweetheart's is exemplary of trends in late 20th and early 21st century daffodil breeding: Intense color over size; broad and overlapping petals; overall rounded shape and flat profile. Of all of Dr Reed's colorful seedlings I think this is my favorite: strong and easy to grow.

Hopelessly round with a sizeable pink cup. Easy to get a perfect un-nicked perianth, there is a lot of profound pink potential in the cup. Scant numbers available.

A lovely and bright Clive Postle's bloom, Neon Light for the show bench or the boutonniere.

An abundance of broad, substantial, wavy and white flowers on a scape bring a spirit of opulence to the bed, bench, and bunch. Nickelodeon is a modern poetaz, from Grand Monarque, and from New Zealand too. A remarkable flower that we recommend without a moment's hesitation.

Nightfire

Our selection of Niveth, a historic Henry Backhouse triandrus.

Oh Cindy ! is a broad-shouldered, no nonsense Yellow/Pink cup from the stables of Dr Reed. Rich color and balanced form.