Double Daffodils

Androcles

An antique double. A truly joyous bloomer that deserves a place in any border or cottage garden. Daughter of Telamonious Plenus and Ornatus.

Ballistic. Bright perfectly formed, well structured double with 4 inch blooms. Full throated Kiwi style from New Zealand. Photographs don't do Ballistic justice. You will so want this daffodil when you see it. We did.

A flamboyant, substantial, and free spirited double, Bella Ciao is a recent van der Veek introduction. Large blooms, a good grower, currently rare and limited but she has higher aspirations.

We are partial to the Yves Montand version (yes Yves was Italian "Ivo" ) of the song "Bella Ciao", which has evolved from a field workers' song to an anti-fascist anthem.

And every hour that we pass here
oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao
and every hour that we pass here
we lose our youth.

But the day will come when we all
oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao
but the day will come when we all
will work in freedom.

We are pleased to be able to offer Double Sir Watkin, a sport of Sir Watkin. A great perennial and quite common in older naturalized plantings, North and South. The double version is just as old (really old) as Sir Watkins but a bit more libertine and colorful. Sir Watkin dislikes being out of the ground, but once situated should become a permanent resident in your garden. Good for the South, although I would avoid digging it. Historic, rare, tall, early-mid season.

Easter Born

Erlicheer is an older tazetta sport with bodacious double, strongly scented blooms. Excellent for forcing and for cut flowers. Erlicheer may struggle in Zone 6 even with some winter protection. Grows freely in the South. A singular daffodil. Classified as a double but we all know that it really behaves as a tazetta. Makes an unusually large bulb.

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Well-named Frostbite is a spontaneous poeticus sport, extra white pointy petals intruding into the cup. Widely variable except that Frostbite retains an overall hexagonal corona shape, analogous to snowflakes. Scented Frostbite brings a lovely blast of cool to the late spring border when all of the other daffodils have melted. An intermediate, Frosty is attractive in a vase , for us blooms with Spanish Bluebells and Tulip Maureen. You will be pleasantly surprised by the the scent.

Gabriella Rose

Normally we abhor superlatives but we are quite okay with calling Gay Kybo one of the most beautiful flowers 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. Organized and substantial petals that mature white. 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.

Gay Tabor

Holland's Glory (Pre-1915)

A round confection of royal icing and strawberry cream, Little Dorr is a recent intermediate double. A crumpled yet neat bloom, divided equally between two soft colors. 3 inch flowers. From the Brian Duncan pastry counter.

Mazzard

Richly-colored with warm creams, pinks and oranges, richly-petaled double daffodil, often with green incursions. Good for cut flowers.

Some think that Popeye was named for an ophthalmological condition. But the nutrition-minded know that this daffodil is so named as its cylindrical cup looks like a can of freshly opened spinach, to be consumed just before a pugilistic outburst. An outburst of soft yellow contained in a deep cup set on a double-triangle-starred flat perianth. Persistent and perennial, Popeye's distinct and luxurious cup can be a bit variable with size and age, Excellent in the vase, in the border. A consistent, trouble free bloomer.

A well organized double that is pointy and rounded at the same time . Did we say very pink and pointy ? Sion of Gresham. Sunproof ? Runkery is servicable daffodil all around, twice in fact.

Tamar Fire

Telamonius Plenus

Twink is a hundred year old historic that shows all of the charm and free spirit of the older doubles. Flower can make three distinct layers of petals giving a bit of organization to the explosive show. Bright and beckoning. One of the best doubles for the South. Said to be high in galanthamine content in case you are brewing any pharmaceuticals at home.

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