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.

Softly colored, elegant and well-rounded, Aircastle always speaks with an indoor voice. Tall and late : an ADS classic from Grant Mitsch that will never go out of style.

Perfection of form and consistency of performance are the attributes of this variety. The perianth is very rounded and flat, and in perfect balance with the small flat crown which is pale apricot lemon with a narrow margin of deeper shade. The perianth opens milk white but after a few days turns to greenish beige. A large flower of good substance and vigorous growth. One may go down a long row and find nearly every flower of exhibition caliber. A frequent show winner including awards for best flower in the Royal Horticultural Society's London Daffodil Show in 1963 and 1966. It has been a good parent. While the color does not appeal to every one, it is doubtless one of the best Daffodils we have raised.

Novelty Daffodils Catalog, Grant Mitch, 1971 p. 5

Flawless white and pink cup. Minutely mucronate.

Astrid's Memory: White and Yellow small cupped show daffodil from Clive Postles.

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

White and pink large cupped daffodil for competition from Clive Postles. Very Limited.Exercise care with your handwriting : not to be confused with Binkie one of the very first reverse bi-colors.

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.

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.

Cameo Affair has great substance and makes a very competitive show bloom. Pay attention: the dentate cup does have the ability to nick the petals. From Peter Ramsey's Cameo Series.

From Peter Ramsey's Cameo series, Cameo Joy is a rounded yellow and red large cupped daffodil for competition.

Cameo King

Cameo Lady

An offspring of the double white daffodil Kiwi Magic. Both from New Zealand, Cameo Magic is a soft white, luxurious double bloom that is hexagonally well organized. On a good day tough to beat in competition.

Cameo Marie - A fiery white and yellow-yellow-orange Kiwi-bred small cup. Broad ovate white petals. Four inch blooms. A substantial flower that is a natural for the show bench. Rare.

Cameo Star

Canaliculatus - An important Tazetta that is grown commercially in large numbers. A historic, an ADS Classic and an ADS miniature. On commercial acreage lists in Holland it is categorized as a species. Pollen and Pod fertile. We maintain a small stock that is hand harvested and graded apart from the large commercial growers. Floriferous, bright and fragrant. Mentioned as an "erratic and fussy bloomer"¹ in Southern zones 8 and above.


^{1. Daffodils in American Gardens 1733-1940, Sara L. van Beck, 101}

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.

A reverse bi-color with soft even coloration and nearly oval, overlapping petals. Caribbean Snow is very good on the show bench : we had no problem getting perfect blooms , consistently. Also good in bed : Castle Acre is an offspring.

An orange rimmed white small cup from Clive Postles brimming with movie-star charisma. The actress Carole Lombard, nicknamed by publicists as Curvy Carole was a child star in the silent movies before making a successful transition to "talkies": specifically in screwball comedies. In 1942, returning from a rally selling $2 million worth of war bonds in her native Indiana, Carole's life and career was cut short by a tragic flight via TWA ( aka The Worst Airline ) . As a fellow Hoosier I can attest that this is a really stellar bloom. Limited.

Cherry Hall

A large cupped Yellow / Orange with a distinct narrow snout. With his broad perianth Corby is surely suited for competition.

Here is an intensely colored Orange / Red large cup that is fecund. Offspring include Rockin Goose, Cameo Flush and Hot Lava. Creag Dubh is daffodil for the competition and for breeding.

An all white large cup from Bill Pannill that has been around for a long while , but seldom seen these days. All white collectors will want some Crystal Blanc in their gardens.

Cutting Edge

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.

Doctor Bill