For The Bench

A selection of White Pearl by Harold Koopowitz. Very floriferous with up to 20 florets per scape. Polly's Pearl is among a group of tazettas from White Pearl. Polly's Pearl is listed in Daffodils in Florida as satisfactory in USDA zone 8, while White Pearl is not. Polly is a lady of substance and fertile both ways.

A Pompiere is a firefighter, narcissus Pompiere is a three-alarm yellow orange cup with a singular profile, with a narrow and extended colorful snout. This is a bloom that we rely on for daffodil shows: returns as a substantial garden plant, great form, easy to pick a winning bloom. A van der Veek seedling.

There is a back story to "Pops Legacy". It originated in New Zealand but wasn't recognized until it was a seedling in Pennsylvania. The OPS stands for Open Pollinated Seedling. POPs makes a terrific flower that is so easy to show with a substance and readily apparent quality of bloom that really puts it apart from other White / Yellows. For me the real story is that for such a nice cultivar I have shockingly few to offer.

A remarkable pink cup, Precocious is well-named, well-rounded, deeply colored, tall and late. She can be a bit variable in form and color, but always a fabulous bloom. Being 50 years old, Precocious is a bit of a misnomer.

When tulips are fringed, their spiky rims denote them as a Crispin type . But daffodils don't have a cool term like "Crispy" to declare a prickly cup because they didn't need one, until now. Who knows if there are many prickly daffs in our future but Pretty Prickles will certainly be recognized as the first. A rounded white ivory perianth surrounds the mango-colored prickly cup. A strong grower, we previously listed as F129 , not registered.

Rapture is one of the most successful cyclamineus culitivars ever made, one that retains a lot of the pendant and narrow form of the species. Being a Mitsch seedling it is only natural that it is healthy and completely perennial across many growing conditions.Being a cyclamineus it is more shade tolerant than most daffs. It will anchor your rockery and pathways for a lifetime asking little in return.

Dr.Reed's Red Passion is show daff in all ways: color, proportion and rotund silhouette. Small numbers to offer.

Paradigmatic Yellow / Red large cup, Resplendent's cup is deeply colored and short. A tough and strong mid century modern bloom from Grant Mitsch.

There is some debate about whether the end of the "Flat and Round" style in daffodil hybridizing is nigh , but we doubt that it will ever go the way of avocado-colored kitchen appliances.This new van der Veek introduction is certainly flat and round with a bright gilded rim to the cup. Ring Ring is strong grower with show qualities and potential, although not registered at this writing.

Robustian is a well-named pink cup -he does sport an overall robust feeling and throws a bloom of great substance. We think that there is likely no-end to the depth of pink color you may coax from the cup if you can supply cool, cool Northern-Ireland-like nights while Robustian is in bud.

A tiny, greenish yellow triandrus that is so wasp-waisted it looks like one half of an English Christmas cracker. Gets its sweet fragrance from its daddy, the jonquil henriquesii. ADS Miniature from Walter Blom.

Well formed and well mannered White / Orange double daffodil. Rongoiti Gem never has a bad hair day. Bright and rounded from New Zealand.

A Gold Trumpet that is so rounded that you might easily mistake it for a large cup. A show daffodil from Clive Postles by way of Goldfinger,sister to Midas Touch. Tall yet mid blooming.

Copper-colored daffodils ( Orange with Red cups) are a most unusual creature. Sabine Hay is kind of well-known, but no commercial growers grow it. Richly colored and exquisitely detailed you will never forget the first time you see Sabine Hay. A super breeder.

A chatty and vivacious jonquil. Sabrosa is a delicious cross between the two species N.rupicola and N.jonquilla. A star player in the container and rock garden Sabrosa is petite and late, an ADS Miniature.

A trumpet, a red cupped trumpet, a sunproof red cupped trumpet, another fine Navy day, that is Sailor's Choice.

An newer, all-white and vigorous triandrus from the nursery of Brian Duncan. Also a very good and improved candidate for the landscape and for cutting.

If there were ever a narcissus trying to emulate a ranunculus, then Serena Beach is it. A serene beauty, a love child of Dallas and the no longer existent Gay Song, Serena Beach will elevate a May wedding. In the vase or border a wonderful bloom. Quantity Pricing.

The peerless, English. all-white, show daffodil Sheelagh Rowan has been around for quite a while but is new to our list. Sheelagh can make a very large flower of great substance and is fertile both ways.

Blooms out of the leaves, aye. Smithy strength stems hold the 4 inch double blooms well aloft, aye my liege. A bit of orange-yellow in the whorl makes for a two-toned effect. Sherborne hails from the kingdom of Camelot and is a grand garden flower with an imposing presence.

Picasso may have said "Cezanne is the father of us all", whereas most modern pink cupped daffodils can claim "Dailmanach is the father of us all". A large ribbon taking pink cup, Sheskin is named after a place in Northern Ireland.

A yellow / orange Jonquilla is an uncommon thing, finding a deep, contasty, colored Y-O jonquilla in the trade is even more rare. Shirley's Art is daffodil I have wanted to have and to show for a while now . One to three blooms per scape.

A small, not miniature, triandrus, yellow on yellow seedling from Brian S. Duncan. from Hillstar cross species.

If you are looking for Yum-Yum, then its all white, flat, and improved small-cupped daughter Silver Choice from Brian Duncan is your best bet. Yum -Yum has met its demise and is no longer in our nursery. We have good numbers of Silver Choice, despite sounding like a Medicare supplement plan, it throws perfect blooms of good substance.

Smooth Criminal is some kind of hybridizer's triumph in the quest for round, smooth overlapping petals, and a crenelated yet symmetrical corona. A bloom of perfect balance and saturated color. So named as the bloom will likely steal the show I suppose. Sunproof, exhibition bench ready.

Generate some garden wattage with this powerful little trumpet that emulates a wind turbine. All white, fragrant, sunproof, windproof. A big planting will produce a lot of spring electricity. From Walter Blom.

A coy, floriferous, white triandrus from Brian Duncan, recently registered, with a broad and a bit of a shallow cup. Up to seven blooms on a scape,Sol Sisters got to stick together.

Labelled an intermediate and labelled a dwarf I dutifully planted Solera in the miniatures bed. And there it blooms every year like Baby Huey over-taxing the crib, a sixth grader towering over the principal. Makes lots of consistent blooms that develop a lovely color along with a flattened perianth. I see Solera often at shows as a dependable team player, especially in collections. It is more late than mid season blooming for us in Connecticut. From Brian Duncan.