For The Bench

Grant Mitsch did a lot of cyclamineus breeding, Swift Arrow is an older cross that has nearly oval petals and a rounded cup flare giving it an easy-going form and feeling. Fertile both ways.

A rich gold trumpet, Brian Duncan's Temba with an even saturated color and cylindrical cup is perhaps the current best in this class, a finger or two better than the long reigning Goldfinger ?. Not sure that it is sunproof from the pictures from the UK, as you can see we got no damage to the pronounced cylindrical cup..

There are a lot of gentle souls in Australia breeding a lot of flowers, Chrysanthemums and Daffodils among the genera, mostly men. And sometimes the outback swagger peeks though as with Terminator, a red cup for showing that is perfect on all points except that it doesn't have any points : it's rounded.

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.

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.

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.

Triple Choice 3971

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.

Possessing a quiet symmetry Tru is a well rounded small cup with a gold-rimmed expression of ardor and surprise.

We generally steer clear of flower cultivars with names like frustration, virulent, sickly, rotter, fungal, struggles, profoundly disappointing, and weakling. But Truculent has been around quite a while, enjoyed wide distribution world round and taken many ribbons in many shows over the years , so Truculent must be agreeable enough. Lovely white small cup with a golden ring. Limited quantities.

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.

A really terrific Pink cup, again from Brian Duncan, one of those large cups that would easily be a trumpet if the perianth petals were not so bloody oversized. Version is not only capable of making a perfect bloom, a breathtaking one at that. Again from Chanson.

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.

Vivash A Duncan pink double with structure, organization and profound deep pink color in the corona.

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.

By our reading of the classification we are not sure that Whisky Mac is full-fledged a reverse bi-color. But a spirit still sought after for form and color on the bench.

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

White Tea - Limited Number available.

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.

There is some kind of farm girl beauty in smile of the scrunched-up, pink, and sun-kissed face of You're Beautiful. Not too formal, not ribald nor an exhibitionist , simply a nice pink double from Carlos van der Veek.

A mango-colored large cup that is richly folded and richly colored like a few other recent seedling from Carlos van Der Veek. Substantial flower, strong stem. There is a lot of bulb business conducted on the Belkmerweg, which is a main North/South drag in the municipality of Zype in the Netherlands. (Dutch y = ij). Earlier known as Zypani from the time of the Spanish occupation.