Brian S. Duncan

A bright and balanced broad large cup from Brian Duncan. Very limited. Named for the fantastical early 20th century hotel in Yosemite where room rates average $890 a night. You can enjoy a visit with our Ahwahnee for $3 a year.

Large blossomed white and pink cupped Brian Duncan Hybrid. From Fragrant Rose, but the breathy pink coalesces at the rim of the cup.

Flawless white and pink cup. Minutely mucronate.

Rounded profile, the small cup is richly colored and broad. Towards maturity the segments of Arid Plains blanch from solid yellow to partially white. From Brian Duncan.

Sometimes you need to be brassy to stand out from the cacophonous crowd. Rounded, smooth, and substantial, Armidale can make a very large and flawless flower. A yellow / orange small cup with a punch from Brian Duncan. Limited.

New Introduction, White and yellow, pink-rimmed large cupped daffodil for competition from Brian Duncan.

Yellow and pink-cupped trumpets are a special, rarified group in the world of daffodils, highly sought after with most being showstoppers. Bronzewing is perhaps more sophisticated than the rest, a Brian Duncan bruiser with four inch blossoms and a corpulent cup. The petals have a fade to white at mid rib creating an even greater contrast with that big ole rich-pink cup. Not a back bencher.

A solid red cup from Brian Duncan.

Brian Duncan's take on the classic show bench daffodil Pacific Rim. Burning Ring has fabulously oval petals on an impossibly thin lipstick-edged cup.

There is a stable of Brian Duncan White / Pink small cups that we find so rewarding it is hard to pick a favorite. Camilla Clara Kate is so robust and substantial that we think it is time to close the book. A stem like a utility pole, a bloom without weakness. An example of why we love small cups. A lovely competitor that ought always to be in your quiver as it is always easy to find a flawless bloom.

A shorter snouted large cup that is richly colored and rich in substance all over. Canny Choice is very much a show daffodil- there is more orange to coax out of the cup than we show here. Doesn't sunburn. Canny choosers choose Canny Choice.

All white small cup with an intense, cherry pink rim on the cup Cherry Glow is a newer Brian Duncan cultivar. Substantial flower on a substantial plant. Cherry Glow would be our choice to take to a show, she pushes the upwards boundaries of small cup. Great stems.

After the mad rush if April is over it is easy to look at the photographic record and judge : "Bloom too old and creppy, Bloom too immature, curled and pale." Contralto makes an intense sunproof cerise-pink cup. How much pink in the cup is variable. Experience says it is better to pick too early than pick too late. This is a very good daffodil for competition.

From Trigonometry and Diversity, Cosine is a Brian Duncan Split cup with a broad, and only slightly interrupted, coral-colored corona. Limited quantities.

If you had a flat face with a broad pink rim perhaps your mother would have named you Dena too. Dena the Daff is so popular we can't keep her in stock. With a face like that we would be just as popular too. From Brian Duncan.

Another scion of Pacific Rim from Brian Duncan, this one coy and rounded with an orange rim. Daffodil show judges snap to attention whenever an entry is labeled Pacific Rim, with more variations than Goldberg. Ribbon material.

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. We have only small numbers of her to offer at this time.

Eden Song is a pink cup descended from Chanson, but is a large cup not a trumpet.

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.

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.

A love-child of Serena Beach , Falling for You is more tousled- haired and freer in spirit. Where did such a romantic name come from ? Not overly complicated, Falling for You is a large and substantive white / yellow double daffodil.

Fashion Model effortlessly sashays sporting a brilliant white frock with a deep pink rim on the cup. A granddaughter of High Society also a Brian Duncan seedling. She wears a four inch sized bloom and should be very competitive on the runway...er bench. Large Cup.

Firebright

A child of the longstanding champion Goldfinger, Gentleman's Choice is only available in limited quantity.

A tiny all-white trumpet from Brian Duncan, Gipsy Vale is a cross ofObvallaris and Gipsy Queen. Coy, pugnacious and perfectly formed Gipsy Vale is a very good variety for competition.

A powerful double Habari's pink corona, often variable and changing , is always fetching and singular.