For The Bench

Another spirited miniature from Mr, Duncan arising from a feral mashup of N.cyclamineus and N.assoanus. A joyful and substantive little thing.

A sharp-elbowed miniature trumpet, Sugared Fruit is descended from Gipsy Queen. Crystalline form and confectioner's sugar-white blooms. Delectable. From Walter Blom.

Evenly mellow yellow all over with a flared cup, this Summer Breeze is rounded and cool with out being cold, From Clive Postles.

In a world of hyphenated family names Sun Bronze conventionally would be named "Runaway Cowboy". Kind of fitting I will keep that in mind if come across another blazing hotpoker red orange from Tasmania.

A recent Brian Duncan introduction, a yellow / orange with a more cylindrical cup, for competition.

Another muscular and bright trumpet shaped large cup from the van der Veeks, Sunny Sunday is strong on landscape positive attributes: upright, contrasty in color, sun proof, and blooms out of the leaves. The perianth is not too ribby, some grooming you could exhibit it . Newley registered , we offered this daffodil previously as F69.

A smooth and substantial new pink cup from Brian Duncan. A nick free and flawless show flower.

Everything a cyclamineus should be, sharp, good in numbers, very early. But the Alliance is from Saint Keverne an older and fecund large cup daffodil.

The Baltic

A very dependable pink cupped cyclamineus, The Foxtrot is easily distinguishable by the evenly deep-colored cup. Easy to show and makes a nice clump in the rockery and garden bed.

The Godfather easily produces the largest blooms of any daffodil in the family. Flowers are a full five inches across with a proportionately large softly-colored cup. Strong stemmed and long lasting The Godfather stands out like Gulliver among the Lilliputians. We are kind of proud to have it in our garden - we get to ask visitors if they would like to meet The Dom of Daffs. Recent van der Veek introduction.

Herr Sander's eponymous seedling glows with a depth of color, substance, and vitality that is jaw-dropping, first time, everytime. A new high water mark in terms of daffodil quality, this Intermediate triandrus is a cross of Ice Chimes and Fairy Chimes. Named for the hybridizer by the registrant as encomium for his work in narcissus. You won't believe it at first.

Many breeders are in search of burn-proof small cups. If you have such a delicate and beautiful flower as Three of Diamonds you can avoid all that by plucking it early. An early seedling from Ms. Gripshover.

Toscane Clive Postles

An all white seedling from Brian Duncan where species triandrus pollen is placed on the super breeder jonquilla Hillstar. Triple Choice seems reliably throw three pendant blooms per scape.

From the prolific Brian Duncan we offer three show daffs that are in the vein of the classic lipstick-rimmed small-cupped yellow daffodil Pacific Rim: Burning Ring; Ring Fence ;Triple Crown ;. Although all throw flawless blooms, we personally would wager Triple Crown by a nose except that in the UK they Award the Triple Crown to Rugby players not horse and jockey.

A very broad show daff with a delicate apple blossom pink color gradation to the cup. The cup is not crenulated or toothy, making for few or no nicks to the perianth. From Brian Duncan, a newer seedling.

Miniature Trumpets sometimes struggle with substance, no so with the lovely Trousdale from the late Mr. Blom. Just brushes up against the the size limit as to what can be called a miniature.

If we had a cool name like Vendell we too would be sharp, cool and handsome. Coloration like Queen of the North the petals and cup, yet rounder and made for competition.

One of the last cyclamineus seedlings from Grant Mitsch, Vineland is about as reflexed as a cyclamineus cross can be. Smooth and even color overall.

An older, yet newly registered exhibition quality pink cup from Brian Duncan. Wasteland Pearl is reference to a Japanese kind of pearl jewelry, but some virtue may be lost in the translation. Smooth and orderly with rich color.

When people first meet Waylon they remark about his bright amber color. Waylon is additionally a beefy double on a substantial scape, a good player in the vase mixed with tulips, leucojum and polyganatum. Makes a dramatic bandmate resulting in a very sunny ebullient border. Not sure how he will do in the judge's eye, but he does have great eye catching susbstance in the perianth-corona folds.

A recent competition quality gold trumpet from the workshop of Brian Duncan. Named for the Westerpark in Amterdam, just southwest of the lovely Jordaan neighborhood.

This is from a group of Brian Duncan Gold Trumpet seedlings that were shown in the UK but heretofore never registered. Like its siblings Westerstorm is a Goldfinger x Disquiet cross.

At one time it was said that you couldn't win top prize at a U.K. daffodil show without entering a bloom of Goldfinger. One year the grower of Goldfinger mixed-up the stock with another variety : subsequently the next Spring there was collective panic across the British Isles as the daffodil blooms emerged. Westerwind is from a group of Brian Duncan gold trumpet seedlings heretofore never registered. Like its Westerly named siblings Westerwind is a Goldfinger x Disquiet cross.

An easy and smooth wave of a white small cup, White Spring is an English bred Tall Daff. Extremely Limited.

In a previous incarnation we were not about soft colors, and abhorred even the suggestion of beige. But we fell hard for Wild Honeyon first sight; it throws tall, substantial, consistent and perfect blooms easily. Feels like a reverse bi-color, but is not classified as such. Incredibly long lasting through heat and wind, dare we say, a superior cultivar on many fronts.

Some flowers are always shucking and jiving and waving in the wind, trying to get the attention of any passing pollinators : both the winged and the tweed-wearing types. Winks a bright intermediate from Badbury Rings doesn't have to do much more than, well.. give a wink. ADS Intermediate.