Mid Bloomers

Triandrus and Jonquils have an affinity for each other, when they cross it doesn't get much better than this. Dainty Monique is spellbinding and petite. From New Zealand. an ADS miniature.

Broad hexagonal white and peach split cup will put a hex on your garden bed. Kind of like dancing the tarantella, but for daffodils. Recent van der Veek introduction.

This new Large cupped bi-color Veek seedling is not yet registered..

A cup so broad, pink, and unbroken that it eclipses the perianth behind it, Diversity is a poster child for showy split cupped daffodils. A good competitor on the bench, as our stocks increase I expect diversity to attract the attention of cut flower growers. Parent to the split cup Cosine.

If this is what histrionic behavior in a flower looks like then bring it on. Remarkable color and form in Brian Duncan's split-cupped Drama Queen. Limited.

A formidable all-white small cup Draycote Water is descended from Princess Zaide who is disappearing from the commercial trade. Like its father Draycote excels in the landscape and on the show bench. Maybe a bit better at both if you are looking for a white small cup, that is.

Dunchurch

A frill-cup that is also a thrill-cup, ever ready for coronation in the garden. Substantial, trumpet like blooms with a lot of regal pomp and presence. Recent introduction.

An impressive upright and look-at-me split cup Electrus is an older seedling from Mr Duncan, Impressive both in the garden and in the vase.

Elizabeth Ann is a feminine white and rose-pink cyclamineus daffodil from Brian Duncan. Betty will gently awaken up any cottage or close up garden situation. Try her in a pot of mixed with sky-blue muscari. Dwarf.

This vigorous Jonquil is a selection, by Walter Blom, of the species N.rupicola (section Apodanthi). Registered twenty years ago we can only assume it was a parent for many of the descendants of his breeding programs. As a selection we assume that this bulbs is fertile both ways. An ADS Miniature.

Here's a case of cross cultural pollination : two American seedlings crossed by an Irishman. A tridandrus with an unusually deep yellow color and substance. From Hillstar, recently registered. ADS Miniature.

This idiosyncratic caffeinated jonquil is floriferous, reflexed, colorful and boldly spirited. Espresso is a novel van der Veek mashup that defies easy classification. We suspect that Espresso will find a place in the garden and in competition.

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.

Watching a planting of Firebrand in bloom blow in the breeze on a sunny spring day is an encounter that may never let slip from memory. A poster child for the greatness of historic, small-cupped daffodils : bred mostly by tweed wearing clerics and the landed gentry. A handsome devil, much like Lucifer . Increases with a little care.

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.

A newly registered bodacious orange cupped seedling from Dr. John Reed. As bold and mellifluous as the Flügelhorn of Chuck Mangione.

Fragrant Spring is a luxurious double Dutch Double - She gets her powerful perfume from her mother and her double form from her father, Acropolis. We are listing it because we think it so belongs in the vase.

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

Normally we superlatives but we are quite okay with calling Gay Kybo one of the most beautiful narcissus blooms ever. Deep and lush white petals evenly articulated with deep orange corona bits. Stunning in any garden and a big beauty on the show bench.

Gay has had a dramatic life, she has gone from rare , to huge productions, to infirmity and back again : today she ie again very rare. Gay Kybo is part of a larger series : Gay Challenger, Gay Time, Gay Song, Gay Tabor that are all beautiful and now mostly gone from the trade. If you are able to find any of the Gays, you should acquire them for your garden. Gay Kybo is rumored to be a rescued discard and named after a (winning) race horse, or something more scatalogical.

A new small-cupped bi-color, a descendant of Moon Madness, Ginto makes round and flat breezy and easy. Brian Duncan.

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.

Grand Monarque is an old and important Tazetta, once grown in great numbers for the cut flower market, both in the US and the Netherlands. It has produced some remarkable seedlings establishing its reputation as a super parent. Plainly colored, Floriferous and fragrant. From the species N. tazetta subsp. lacticolor.

A well-known and well-regarded dependable pink cup from John Reed. Mid-west sensible, mid-west nice. If you have some skill you can upend a daffodil show with Great Joy.

Van Der Veek seedlings tend to be large flowered on strong stems: bred to grow vigorously and stand out in the landscape. This gringo is really free spirited and corpulent, a fruity color that is not sulfury at all.

A stellar, but older, just-registered, bi-colored large cupped seedling from Brian Duncan. As for the name, "Hard to Beat" may be accurate: in Ireland may be a bit "cheeky", but in New York that's just plain old chutzpeh. Coming to a daffodil show near you soon.

Cross of Fiona Mc Killiop x Queen'­s Guard.

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.