Australia

An ivory and red small cup, Abstruse makes consistent and charismatic blooms, with great color and great substance in the petals. Doesn't makes mittens as the petals seldom catch unfolding from the cup. An easy win on the bench : I find the neck a little brittle so use your lady fingers when finishing. Originally from down under.

Here's a pedigreed child: poppy is a species jonquil and mumsy a species triandrus. Angel's Breath is a vigorous grower and should be widely adaptable. We also list her sister, Angel's Whisper, who is similar. About 20 years old, Tasmanian bred. Small and robust. ADS Miniature.

Angel's Whisper : An equally robust sister to Angel's Breath. Both are a species Jonquil x species triandrus cross. From Tasmania.

Bionic is an intensely colored yellow orange large cup bred in Tasmania. Full of modern contrast, Bionic has a well-rounded, perfectly layered perianth and a distinct deep cylindrical cup. A six million dollar bloom on the bench. A champion.

Brindabella is not named after a roller derby jammer as we thought on first sight, but rather an imposing Australian mountain range. Certainly a striking and corpulent two toned Yellow double competitor from David Jackson.

For being a bit obscure we have moderate numbers of Habit, a golden trumpet of great substance. Habit has notable children, mostly Californian, each with fit and crisply-shaped petals.

A substantial Australian Tazetta from the golden age of tazetta breeding. A cross of Grand Monarque and pseudo-narcissi, Killara is an ADS Historic.

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.

The term IP used to to be an acronym solely for Internet Protocol, then expanded to include Intellectual Property and then In Progress and Instagram Post. The letters OP in horticulture usually refer to Open Pollinated . But daffodil Oops with a four generation family tree is anything but open pollinated. We usually sell out of Oops but have a larger number to offer this year, thanks to good old asexual reproduction.

Spoirot is a Bulbicodium from Tasmania that develops a clear, white color with some contrasting green in the tube. Seed fertile, several descendants. Name is an Agatha Christie reference - HerculeS Poirot,

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.

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.

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.