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All white flowers is a thing, some get it, others not so much.

A classification created to recognize the great advances made in Daffodil breeding in the post war years 1940 - 1969, inclusive. Membership is solely by year of introduction, akin to being a Baby Boomer.

On any given day any daffodil bloom even the most prosaic, if perfect and poised enough, can take a ribbon at a Daffodil show. Here are some with proven track records, or those that show a perfection that makes them likely competitors. Husbandry, strategy and staging is up to you.

Make a statement in your garden. With the added benefit of meeting up locally with your favorite friends year over year. Generally, but not limited to taller varieties. "Makes a nice clump" is a compliment any daffodil gardener can be proud of.

Includes daffodils that have a successful breeding history, daffodils that are known to be pollen and/or seed fertile, and of course species from our list.

More than a lagniappe, great fragrance in narcissus is something we all look forward to, expect, and depend on. Triandrus, jonquils, tazettas, and poeticus each have their own fragrance palettes, but fragrance can pop up anywhere in cultivars old and new.

The Slow Flower movement is a ground swell of localized horticulture across the US. Daffodils tend to bloom before the farmer's markets and roadside stands have opened for the season, but growers can easily have wonderful daffs to put on market for Easter, Mother's day, and May weddings. Here are some selected cultivars that we think your Florists will love. Quantity pricing in 25's.

Defined as any daffodil cultivar registered or referenced before 1940. Like our Grandfather said " the bad houses fell down a long time ago". Long lived, often tall with a simple beauty that has been obscured in fancier new cultivars. Historic daffodils culture, like Southern daffodil culture is well established and committed. We are fortunate to be able to list a lot of historic daffodils that have been passed down from generation to generation of growers and collectors.

The American Daffodil Society defines an intermediate daffodil as a standard (height) daffodil in Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, or 11 having a single floret whose diameter is typically greater than 50 mm and less than or equal to 80 mm.

A subjective grouping of 19th century English bred, star-shaped, and small-cupped daffodils that we find so attractive and perennial in the vista drift planting. Some outliers are included: large cups, doubles and early 20th century cultivars. This is a sentimental subset of the Historic group.

Because not only Less is More, Smaller is More too. At one time the ADS miniature list was established by committee. Recently it has been defined as a cultivar with single flower less than 50mm across in natural spread. Or for multi-floreted daffodils a natural spread of less than 72mm for the entire floral mass. We pride ourselves in offering the largest list of miniatures to our customers because we are miniature lovers too. This category includes, naturally, many species.

We added 185 cultivars to the list this year. But these are not necessarily novel to the daffodil world, for those dated 2018 and later go here : Recent Introductions . We no longer list "returning" items here as it renders the list unwieldy. Enjoy.

In the second half of the 20th century crafty humans unlocked the pink gene in the daffodil genome. And things just keep getting pinker in the cup, across many divisions. We include pink coronaed doubles in this category.

A group of daffodils that are crosses between the Tazetta and Poeticus divisions, made to create a taller, more cold resistant plant than tazettas alone. Includes historic and modern crosses that are happily cold tolerant to zone 5a and nearly always wonderfully fragrant. Most of the Poetaz are also listed in the Tazetta division, but may be obscured. Great garden and vase flowers.

A subjective category — by definition almost everything we list is rare and limited. If we notice that we have only, say, 25 bulbs of a daffodil to sell it goes into this bucket.

Cultivars that were registered in the last five years. We enjoy a bevy of Walter Blom and Carlos van der Veek culitivars that may be new to you in this category.

Reverse bi-colors is another 20th century human intervention into the daffodil genome. In nature a white petaled, yellow cupped daffodil is a norm. In this category it is the other way around: the petals are yellow and the cup is white. To qualify the petals must be all yellow or have two consecutive 'YY's in the classification, in the cup a single W or two consecutive 'WW's. Reverse bi-colors could be from any division, but most likely are trumpets, large cups, triandrus cyclamineus, and jonquils.

Smaller daffodils with beautiful blooms that benefit from being viewed close up. In the summer when they are dormant they also enjoy the drainage and warmth provided by the rockery, ceding their real estate to later blooming genera.

The Southeastern United States was a hotbed of daffodil culture long before the Wells Fargo Wagon came down the street. These cultivars have proven longevity in zones 7a - 8b. Many are older time tested and sentimental long-loved favorites. For western zones add 2.

Stand out performers and favorites that we are afraid may get lost in the sauce of the general list. Varieties that may not attract much attention until you have actually grown them and come to appreciate their subtleties and strengths.