For The Bench

Strong and consistent Aberfoyle is a very dependable large orange cupped entry for the bench. Gets better upon further inspection. An English variety from the 1980's

Bringing more rock and roll glamour to the modern New Zealand garden party, Abraxis is a scented, broad petaled, and wavy tazetta hybrid dressed in white and orange. Early to arrive to the fete. From Grand Monarch.

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.

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.

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

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

A pink-cupped triandrus may be the rarest form in all of daffodildom. Akepa is perhaps the very first of its kind, from Grant Mitsch.

Flawless white and pink cup. Minutely mucronate.

A recently introduced double that is most like a lotus blossom when it opens a mild- yellow with an alluring symmetry. As Ambon matures into clear white and yellow it gets wide and wild. You will easily be able to select a very stunning bloom. Best as a stem, in the landscape Ambon blooms a bit in the leaves. This Daffodil is named for a city in the Moluccas in Indonesia, once a Dutch colony.

All the people are waiting for Angel Face,
She said she'd meet them down at their favorite place.
Dressed in yellow satin, white linen and lace,
She stood so high with a smile on her face.

A stunning all white large cup. More an ivory color than a clear white with a profound green eye. Possesses a regal, royal wave in the cup for all that pass by. Strength in numbers. Daughter of the widely grown Misty Glen.

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.

Arona - Soft yellow perianth, the soft orange peaks at the rim of the spherical cup. Soft spoken and detailed, a peerless thing for the bench. From Clive Postles.

A flower so sought after that we can't keep it in house. Large perfect all white large cup, Ashton Wold has a place in the landscape and on the bench.

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

Small solid colored yellow cup set in a substantial set of spinnaker-like segments. Large diameter flower. Turns out that we do need those badges. Badgeworth is from Clive Postles. Limited.

Ballistic. Bright perfectly formed, well structured double with 4 inch blooms. Full throated Kiwi style from New Zealand. There is a lot of crowd swell for this daffodil, it has a very bright future in the commercial market. Photographs don't do Ballistic justice. You will so want this daffodil when you see it. We did.

The daffodil diggers of North Holland consider themselves to be tough guys. It is never good to be "soft" and they will let you know it -- early and often. But here is the softest colored pink cup ever, and where does it come from ? But straight out of tough guy land. I think our florist friends will swoon and soften for Beau Beauté. She is a bit like High Society that has completed a course of anger management. New introduction from Carlos van der Veek.

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

Burgerbrug is a town in north Holland that is a hotbed of daffodil culture. Burgerbrug translates loosely to "The Citizen's Bridge". Unless you go down to the actual bridge, which is a kind of floating, single-lane drawbridge contraption, then you are in the neighborhood of "Burgervlotbrug" - The Citizen's Floating Bridge. Not for the faint of heart.

This is Carlo's encomium to his hometown and I am genuinely stunned at its beauty, an overlapping perianth update to Queen of the North, or something along those lines. New Introduction in 2023. Good stock.

Bell Fly is a recent posthumous introduction from Walter Blom, and what a high-spirited cyclamineus it is. Dare we say that it is broader, longer and more zippy than daffodil Iwona that we love so much ? Not pink, but orange cupped. An early dwarf, vigorous. We are unable to determine the origin of the name. Limited stock.

My Best Friend has a round pale primrose moon face and thin orange ring on his very round corona. Such are the bonds of friendship. A real bench burner. By Clive Postles. Only a handful available.

This recent Mark Vandervliet double is makes a really perplexingly big bulb. The double flower is equally as big and supremely well organized and detailed. Like many sumo-sized doubles she blooms in the leaves a bit but on a plenty strong stem , so much the better for the vase, the bench, and the border. I have taken ribbons with this bloom . I would like to be greeted in my garden by a platoon of Big Girls, but alas small numbers yet.

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.

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.

Double daffodils are not the most ribbon-winning bunch: only the most rounded and orderly need apply. Blossom Lady, originating from New Zealand, is definitely a ribbon candidate: bright; colorful; well-formed; well-rounded. Way back in the family tree is the historic double Mary Copeland. Extremely limited.

It's hard to fill a truck selling Boslowick, he is so perfect, so broad faced and calming that you only need to one bloom to make your day. But please, take two bulbs, or more ! A very well ordered and well behaved split cup, with a profound color. A good grower for us, a perfect thing like most things Ron Scamp. See also Jabberwocky. Limited availability.

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.

An easy going monochromatic yellow coloration with a well-rounded perianth, Broadwalk Beauty is show daffodil that makes it easy to find a consistent and flawless bloom. Hard to find mostly because my fingers type "boardwalk" instead of "broadwalk." Perhaps some reference to the catwalk on the fashion show runway: Broadwalk Beauty is very tall like Jerry Hall. Very small stock.

Broomhill is a tall, all white, mid-century large cup. Broad, overlapping petals, strong structure and flanged cup makes her a solid shower. Broomhill is a member of a rich bloodline - Beersheba, King Alfred and China White are ancestors. Very slightly misty green at the base of the cup. Seed fertile, Broomhill has been a seed parent for many all white, show worthy cultivars. ADS Classic.

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.

Call the firemen, bring a hose. Peter Ramsey's Cameo series is an extended family distinguished by their perfect perianths across many shapes and color combinations.

Orange on Orange is one of the rarest color combinations in daffodildom. Cameo Flush delivers color, substance and form in equal amounts of overabundance, Some animals are more equal than others.

If you are in the market for an all gold trumpet it is hard to find a more exemplary example than Cameo Gem. Has heavy substance and a frilly edge on the long -long cup.

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.

Peter Ramsey's Cameo series is an extended family distinguished by their perfect perianths across many shapes and color combinations. Overlapping petals with a point.

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 golden Ron Scamp Large cup with a ring of orange on the lip. Cape Cornwall for Competition.

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.

An Avalanche / Matador cross from the master of tazettas, Bill Welch. Most any narcissus centric superlatives apply to Mr Welch's tazetta seedlings : fragrant, substantial, robust, long-lasting, colorful. Be prepared to receive very large bulbs making very large plants each with multiple scapes.

"Bulbs, they light up your yard without electricity "

Very floriferous and very tall yellow and orange Tazetta. A perfect thing, likely a Poetaz , from Bill Pannill. Fantastic imposing plant, olé.

A very substantial reverse bi-color, a daughter of Caribbean Snow, but a full and contrasty trumpet. Besides being stunning this seedling never throws a damaged bloom for us with lovely substance. Good on color, stem and substance. Ribbon winning candidate.

A very small, all golden yellow Bulbocodium from Walter Blom.

Cherry Hall

Cherrygardens is pale pink cup that excels on the show bench with broad rounded white petals. Touch of green at the base of the cup ending in a deeper pink rim. Very tall with four inch flowers. Pollen and seed fertile. Very limited stock.

Where were you when you first saw Chipper? A meteor shower of vertically pendant blooms with compound color leaving a trail of wavy and reflexed petals. One to start a collection with, one to end with. We hang out together with Chipper a lot in the Spring.

A delicate flower, a cross of Limequilla and species triandrus. Pale relexed petals, rich, pendant, and bulbous, cup. We find Churchfield Bells attractive and memorable in the mixed border, more than other triandrus, for reasons we cannot verbalize.

Sired by Corofin, Clovelly Ayr is a bright and scented late poeticus from Ron Scamp.

A white large cupped daffodil from Clive Postles with a very softly colored yellow cup, for competition.

Colonial White, An all white large cup from Grant Mitsch. Limited stock.

Commodore Perry is a showy and commanding pink cup from the armada of the late Dr. John R. Reed of Michigan. Even though the Commodore is an intermediate, his extra large caliber gun and broad sails will quickly scuttle the opposition. Said to be sun-pro

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.

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

A slim and colorful jonquil, you can never be too slender or too pink. Fragrant, floriferous and vigorous.

Flair, fun, and fansome : Country Roads is like a colorful Ice Follies all dolled up for a trip to town. Not at all dusty but rather tall, straight, and striking in the border. Like all things Van Der Veek, Country Roads gives good stem.

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.

We were blindsided by the triumph of Crowndale, so proud and powerful, we carried around a pot of this daffodil for weeks, to lectures ,to shows, to the dining room, to the front window. A Clive Postles double, Crowndale is descended from Tahiti: in competition a bit more organized, muscular, and a bit richer in color.

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.

A miniature, rich yellow jonquil, Curlylocks is bright and ruffly - all of the charm and companionship of a lap dog without the shedding. One to three one inch pugnacious blooms on a scape. US bred. Rare. ADS Classic.

Cutting Edge

Dailmanach produces a pink-colored cup that is unforgettable, singular and difficult to pigeon hole. Daimanach is also the Genghis Khan of pink cups : more widespread and winning offspring than you can shake a stamen at. We love it as a stand-out in the garden too.

Broad white petals with a coy green eye. Much Sought after. ADS Historic, ADS Classic. Tall and late, it plays well with others: We put it on the May floral market. A bloom of great beauty and poise that defines elegance : one we cannot imagine living without. A proud parent both ways.

Perfectly hexagonal white and peach broad split cup will put a hex on your garden bed. Kind of like dancing the tarantella, but for daffodils. Recent van der Veek introduction.

Kick up your heels for a recent and reliably pink colored split cup from Carlos van der Veek. Split cups tend to bloom early and hold well, take them for a spin in the vase. For all of his "Dance"named cultivars, I have yet to see Carlos on the dance floor.

Colin Crotty has bred numerous daffodils with deep red in the cup rim. We enjoyed growing this daffodil a lot : we got extreme frilliness but maybe not the intense red that we have seen from others on the bench. Deb's Jewel is an exuberant bloom from New Zealand.

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.

The jonquilla Desert Bells makes two or four tidy and flattened white flowers per scape. Cup mellows to a light lemon. A late blooming dwarf that is at ease in the rock garden, in the pot or on the bench. Show winner. By Grant Mitsch.

Doctor Bill

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.

A formidable all-white small cup Draycote Water is descended from Princess Zaide who is disappearing from the commercial trade. Like its father Draycote excels in the landscape and on the show bench. Maybe a bit better at both if you are looking for a white small cup, that is.

Dunchurch

Dunstan's Fire is a very orderly and color-contrasty yellow/orange trumpet. With a rounded perianth and notched and crenated cup Dunstan is a very good show daffodil and would be thrilling in the landscape. Except that we have only a few, not even enough to fill a window box. Now you know what to do.

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

Englander is a cyclamineus seedling that retains just a bit of wildness tempered with high sophistication. Sporting a real long schnoz and slim reflexed petals. Like most Brits, Englander, being a cyclamineus, is not well suited for a afternoon siesta in the blazing sun. An ADS miniature . Fab in the pot and the rockery -- Don't be shy, we grew a lot of Englander.

A millennial, well read, well bred and well fed reverse bi-color trumpet, but with a ring of lemon curd around the snout.

Late blooming all white large cup. Very small stock. Eve Robertson

Evesham. Very few bulbs available.

F 732

Unusual, unmistakeable and unforgettable Fencourt Jewel is a unique 21st century pink cupped tazetta. Floriferous : beauty and bounty from New Zealand. A truly grand flower. For us in zone 6b it is wonderfully persistent year over year. Worth every penny.

Fineshade is new to us : We are so looking forward to seeing this Yellow/Orange Trumpet on the competition bench. Only a few bulbs on offer.

Firebright

Reverse bi-colors are a bit rare, even more is the cyclaminius subset. Flight Path makes a beautiful bloom and is pollen fertile.

A reverse bi color that is strong on all points, weak on none. Consistent, rounded, dandy and neat with strong contrasting color, we find Flor d'Luna to be easily best in class. From Clive Postle in his salad days.

Shallow bowl shaped yellow to red small cup in a blunt white perianth. Very tall, very late and colorful. From New Zealand.

A Dr John Reed White / Pink large cup. Just a handful available.

When we get to your Garden Party will there be substance and color to be found there ? Will it be refreshing without sharp corners? Count us in. We may wander off the pathways and lean in to sniff the flowers. Maybe even pull a few weeds.

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.

You won't get a good enough seat in the Dress Circle to see Golden Symphony: she is poised, petite, pendant and perfumed. Part jonquilla thus the fragrance. From the prince of pizzicato Walter Blom. We assume that you can put this on the bench as a miniature. Will sell with allegro con brio.

I think that I will alway grow Greetham. It makes such a handsome an perfect bloom everytime that it allays my gardener's inferiority complex and bolsters confidence at show time. It has ribs, but in a strengthening positive way. Fabulous color.

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

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.

Just fills you with envy doesn't it ? Powerful contender for best in any show, no? Ovate and mucronate spinnaker-white petals as perfect as the compact red suction cupped-cup. Hartlebury is just unbeatable. Late 20th Century English narcissiculture.

Large and sunny, Hello Sunshine is a soft lemon colored behemoth of a trumpet from Carlos van der Veek. Perianth is ovate, shouldered and mucronate, the funnel-shaped cup is frilled and crenate. New Introduction, good supply available.

A mellow yellow small cup that just screams perfection. If I was packing for a daffodil show with grand and smooth aspirations I would pack Hollowbridge along with Abstruse.

Holme Fen

Wide white and yellow funnel-shaped small cup from Clive Postles. Fertile both ways.

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We are guessing that this newer seedling from John Hunter is a viridiflora and triandrus cross. Like Polar Hunter and other spring fall viridiflora crosses Hunter Morn is early to break ground, durable and long lasting. Two to four blooms per scape.

Hyperbole proclaims its superiority by sporting broad swept back rounded whites petals and an intense red megaphone cup. Hyperbole should be in your competition arsenal. A Brian Duncan daffodil cultivar of great dramatic poise.

In Love, a new entry in the the van der Veek "Love" series, is a full on all-white trumpet with a perfect and cupped perianth. Like other trumpets and large cups from van der Veek this seedling is vigorous with a sturdy stem.

A rounded White -Yellow small cup that can make a large, flat bloom. Jammin is fertile both ways.

Jenna, a small cup Yellow/Red is a show-worthy daff from Clive Postles. Small numbers available.

Everyone wants a date with Jodi when they see her, few will get her number. If she looks delicate and retiring it is because she is. A delicate pink split cup from the Cupid's arrow of Brian Duncan. We have just a few to offer again this year. Limit two per order please.

When the laundress sees the red lipstick on the collar of your starched white button-down she will know that you too have been Juliet's Choice. Just a handful of bulbs available.

Like other Veek Trumpets and Large Cups Just for You is a vigorous plant of poise and stature. Gold all over, the perianth is a bit ribby for the judges, but I would not hesitate to show it.

Broad white petaled pink cup, Fragrant Rose on steroids, and even better for the bench for it.

Kaylee Ann is so cute and bright-faced she is easily worth twice the price. Flawless blooms are easy in spite of that buzzsaw edged cup.

A very beefy White and Yellow Double daffodil from New Zealand. First perianth row is double triangle shaped. Kiwi Magic opens with a bright yellow corona and matures to a softer cream.Just a handful in stock.

All white La Delicatesse is a well-named large cup. Refined and elegant the frilled trumpet makes you look twice, and then again. A balance of detail and form, a superior cultivar all around. La Délicatesse is a proven winner on the show bench. Four inch flowers bloom above the foliage. the leaves.

Smooth and rounded swell pink large cup. Ladymeade's intense color comes from her being a part of the Dailmanach Dynasty.

The much sought after Lavender Hope is back again this year, in slightly larger numbers. Another member of the house of Dailmanach, this time via Dr. John Reed.

The thing the most unlike an all-yellow trumpet daffodil is an all-yellow small cupped daffodil. Somehow it is in the color -- think Arona, Hollowbridge, Lemon Choice. Not a sour choice at all.

Pucker up for this unusual split cup. White with a wild and wavy lobed pink corona. Recent introduction from Carlos van der Veek.

Lieke was not on our radar until multiple southern customers sang its praises: good in the deep south, upright, floriferous, and increasing. A seedling from Brent Heath this flower bounced around North Holland for a bit before it found a patron and a name. A great landscape daffodil, the fact that it can bloom in the leaves a bit actually increases it stately presence and charm. Two to commonly three blooms per scape, a late bloomer.

When you need a substantial reverse bi-color trumpet this one stands out. Lighthouse Reef is as contrasty, smooth and substantial as it gets. Ovate petals with a smooth substance overall. Perhaps we repeated ourselves but still not an overstatement.

Inheriting floriferousness from her mother and green color from her father Lima's Green Goddess is a fall blooming viridiflorus cross. These daffodils like to be high and dry in summer dormancy and will awake around October first. They go dormant in the late spring, and are somewhat cold hardy, but there are limits.

To read more about the genesis in modern narcissus viridiflorus breeding go HERE.

It is not often that a yellow trumpet is found adjacent to the term Intermediate . But Little Alfred sports all of the trumpet flanged and notched cupped bling that you want, but with a "seen not heard" modesty that you like. Lovely color, form and detail. Increases. We think Little Alfred is a candidate for pot culture. ADS Intermediate.

We are pleased to list this miniature white pink cupped tazetta by Harold Koopowitz. Little Dianne is unique and feminine, full of color, fine form, detail and fragrance. Makes you loath to leave the ranch in springtime. Limited stock

Little Rusky is a really, really little Jonquil. Like the other bigger Ruskies we know, he is intense and rewards with painstaking attention to detail. When you catch a flash of the green eye, you too will understand. Handsome as the Tsar in form and color.

Miniatures can have a reputation of going AWOL after a season or two. Little Rusky has returned for duty, increasing, over the years for us with little care at all. The scape pushes the long lasting blooms higher and higher as the late season progresses. ADS Miniature.

A remarkably bright performer of the pseudo narcissus type. On first glance Little Spell might be mistaken for Gipsy Queen. Lovely little thing. Registered as a Yellow-Yellow, but how is this not a reverse bi-color ?

I am very enamored with Little Spring King, he is one of Carlo's smaller sized seedlings. A triple threat : good for pot culture, good for the rockery, good for exhibition. Royal good posture, looks confident and blooms well out of the leaves.

From New Zealand, a very early cyclamineus with rich color. A little like Jetfire but without the mottling in the cup.

Little Surprise is recent small, yellow cyclamineus from Brian Duncan. Species cyclamineus x species poeticus. Even colored, reflexed with a little, wrinkled, pug-nosed cup.

Liverpool Festival

In the States, in a crowdsourced competition, he would have been named "Snooty McSnootface", but Snooty is indeed an Irish Lord of both Trumpets and reverse bi-colors. Awesome flower, sired by Brian Duncan. New Introduction, doesn't appear to be registered at this writing. Only a few bulbs to offer.

Lord Snooty is a pre-existing, albeit, fictional Irish cartoon character. somewhat analogous to the US character Richy RIch.

The classification Jonquils: yellow with pink cups is the most rarefied class. ( I checked the numbers) . Aside from the successful Blushing Lady, Brian Duncan's Love Me Tender is one of the rare examples in commerce. Elvis may have left the building but Love Me Tender is just getting started.

Love You More ! You Bethca ! A shapely and robust large cupped trumpet from Carlos van der Veek. Lovely ivory white color with fabulous substance. While the perianth may be a bit ribby for the Judges, the overall form of this flower is impressive -- with a little primping I think it has ribbon winning potential. Pricing allows for landscape planting.

Yellow Pink doubles are unicorns, Lowena has the deepest yellow and pink colors of the breed. From New Zealand.

Lucifer waves, winks, and beckons in the landscape. Star shaped with a rich colored cup that is variable with age. Angelic and demonic, a truly great landscape daffodil. ADS Historic. Limited.

Please contact me if your club would like to make a mass public planting of historics.

Another show quality, soft yellow on yellow small cup from Brian Duncan.

When offered Magic Charm for sale we jumped at the chance like a leprechaun. A fabulous, older, Haven White / Red large cup. Movie star presence.

Not Black magic, but Pink Irish magic. Substantial Pink Cup for the show bench.

Unlike many split cups Maria Pia's corona face is round, flat, and unfrilly. The overall design of Maria is enough to take a ribbon. If you can coax that deep red face out of her you will certainly take the class.

Martinette is a Tazetta crossed with a species jonquil by Harry Tuggle. It is a vigorous grower and fragrant. Aside from Geranium it is the tazetta that I see most often on the commercial cut flower market.

Mazzard has the truest pink color of any double narcissus we can think of, a full sized bloom on a plant that has a tidy form, every flower is perfect. I think the florists will like it. Perfection from Ron Scamp.

A viridiflorus cross of great substance and poise that has been around a quarter of a century already. So stunning it is more of a specimen than just another bloom.Mesa Verde blooms in early spring and is long lasting and quite cold tolerant. To read more about the genesis in modern narcissus viridiflorus breeding go HERE.

Millennium Orange

Alec Gray-bred daffodils dominate the commercial trade by sheer volume grown. Scores of acres of his highly successful, miniature tazetta Minnow are grown each year, mainly for pot culture. Minnowlet is an unexpected offspring of Minnow, being a small and neat monochromatic split cup. Two and a half inch flowers with concise Star of David petals, well designed collar.

Bill Welch's take on daffodil Avalanche. There is an easily recognized perfection to Miss Meliss blooms, she is genuinely tall, strong, floriferous, and fragrant. A truly great cultivar.

An older cyclamineus registered by Grant Mitch, Mite is a miniature and aside from not being particularly pendant, it retains a lot of cyclamineus spirit. Very fertile, Mite is a good surrogate for the species in breeding as the species cyclamineus are raised from seed. Way adorable and sophisticated, it is hard to not stare. ADS Miniature. ADS Classic.

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.

Montroig

Moon Madness

A perfectly rounded white and yellow small cup from Clive Postles. Cute as a button and promiscuous. Very limited.

We are running out of synonyms for ostentatious to describe Carlo's lovely seedlings. Superfly, fancy, fancy-pants, yes a fancy-pants trumpet, white until the frilly yellow corona's edge. Vigorous grower, not registered, new introduction in 2023.

My Sweetheart's is exemplary of trends in late 20th and early 21st century daffodil breeding: Intense color over size; broad and overlapping petals; overall rounded shape and flat profile. Of all of Dr Reed's colorful seedlings I think this is my favorite: strong and easy to grow.

Hopelessly round with a sizeable pink cup. Easy to get a perfect un-nicked perianth, there is a lot of profound pink potential in the cup. Scant numbers available.

A lovely and bright Clive Postle's bloom, Neon Light for the show bench or the boutonniere.

An abundance of broad, substantial, wavy and white flowers on a scape bring a spirit of opulence to the bed, bench, and bunch. Nickelodeon is a modern poetaz, from Grand Monarque, and from New Zealand too. A remarkable flower that we recommend without a moment's hesitation.

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Our selection of Niveth, a historic Henry Backhouse triandrus.

Oh Cindy ! is a broad-shouldered, no nonsense Yellow/Pink cup from the stables of Dr Reed. Rich color and balanced form.

A colorful silver and gold jonquil, Oma seems a little more compact and bright than Edged in Gold and New Baby, although I have yet to compare them side by side. Newer release: this daffodil is not registered.

Online. Clive Postles bred richly colored and substantial large cup. Pollen and pod fertile.

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.

We offer two White Orange Cyclamineus daffodils : Orange Comet and Bell Fly. But it turns out that this color combination is not common at all. Of these two Brent Heath's Orange Comet achieves a much more robust orange in the cup. For just a few dollars you too can put heavenly bodies in your beds, borders, containers and rockery. This cultivar is no longer commonly found in the trade.

Large cupped, smooth petals , clean edges, solid pink cup : Things are clean and orderly in the Palace. Palace Pink from Chanson, Dailmanach and of course Brian Duncan.

A daughter of Misty Glen with a whisper of a pink mist condensing on the rim. Palheiro is Portuguese for haystack implying perhaps the breeder recognized that he had plucked a needle from the bottomless daffodil gene pool. Late Bloomer.

Brian Duncan's refresh of the well-decorated English show daff Crowndale. Round and well structured, Paradale is a profoundly colored yellow and orange double daff.

Silvery and round small cup, with a delicate yellow rim on the cup. Park Springs is fifty years old, but still a cool and refreshing drink of water.

A full flavored cyclamineus, and a reverse bi-color one at that. We adore the sixes and try to list a lot, the only other reverse bi-cycli we offer is Lemon Silk, who is a cool sophisticate. But Peppercorn has a perky profile and is peppery all over. That flanged cup, oh baby that lasts long on the taste buds. By Ron ëHotstuffí Scamp. Just a handful to offer.

A really terrific cyclamineus for the garden and the bench, I cannot explain why Perky is not more widely adopted. From Grant Mitsch.

A more recent floriferous jonquil from Brian Duncan. Perpetua is all yellow and extremely late blooming.

Historically a lot of daffodil breeding has been by English-speaking men. But Petra Vogt from Germany is an outlier who doesn't even wear tweed. Her eponymous flower is so very nice, it can win on the bench and has "echten Wow-Faktor" in the border. Did you ever see anything like that rim?

This daffodil is unregistered, and has been known informally as Petra and Petra's. It is a healthy grower certainly suitable for the landscape.

There is a perfection about Petrel apparent at first sight : floriferous with a lovely white color, typically seven sharp profiled blooms per scape. One of Grant Mitsch's bird series. If you think triandrus are a bit boring Petrel will crack your prejudice. Once you have it you will be a bird watcher too. Petrel is fabulous in a well-designed garden bed, but unfortunately remains in limited supply.

The November birthstone Pink Topaz is also Kiwi pink trumpet with profound show bench potential. The deeper the pink color the higher the value.

A species on species jonquil cross by Grant Mitsch that is upright and fabulous in the garden. Pixie's Sis has been around for a long while, but has suffered some major career setbacks through no fault of her own. We are lucky to have a few to offer as she makes her way back to a full recovery. A truly great jonquil for the bench and garden, North and South¹. ADS Miniature.

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On the march to year round daffodils Polar Hunter is on the vanguard; an April / October romance of a fall blooming viridiflorus species crossed with a spring bloomer. Polar Hunter breaks ground in late winter and proceeds to blossom at a leisurely pace. Because of its conspicuous substance and long lasting abundant blooms, florists and landscape designers take notice of this attractive and truly remarkable cultivar.

A pink cup from Ron Scamp that is reminiscent of HighSociety but rounder and more prim. Polgooth is all about the judicious application of Pink Power.

A selection of White Pearl by Harold Koopowitz. Very floriferous with up to 20 florets per scape. Polly's Pearl is among a group of tazettas from White Pearl. Polly's Pearl is listed in Daffodils in Florida as satisfactory, while White Pearl is not. Polly is fertile both ways.

A Pompiere is a firefighter, narcissus Pompiere is a three-alarm yellow orange cup with a singular profile, with a narrow and extended colorful snout. Returns as a substantial garden plant, easy to pick a winning bloom. A more recent Veek introduction.

There is a back story to "Pops Legacy ". It originated in New Zealand but wasn't recognized until it was a seedling in Pennsylvania. The OPS stands for Open Pollinated Seedling. POPs makes a terrific flower that is so easy to show with a substance and readily apparent quality of bloom that really puts it apart from other White / Yellows. For me the real story is that for such a nice cultivar I have shockingly few to offer.

When tulips are fringed, their spiky rims denote them as a Crispin type . But daffodils don't have a cool term like "Crispy" to declare a prickly cup because they didn't need one, until now. Who knows if there are many prickly daffs in our future but Pretty Prickles will certainly be recognized as the first. A rounded white ivory perianth surrounds the mango-colored prickly cup. A strong grower, we previously listed as F129 , not registered.

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Quiet Waters is a 30 year old, English bred, lovely all-white trumpet possessed of calm and poise. Oversized rounded and flattened perianth with a crisp cylindrical corona

Rapture is one of the most successful cyclamineus culitivars ever made, one that retains a lot of the pendant and narrow form of the species. Being a Mitsch seedling it is only natural that it is healthy and completely perennial across many growing conditions.Being a cyclamineus it is more shade tolerant than most daffs. It will anchor your rockery and pathways for a lifetime asking little in return.

Dr.Reed's Red Passion is show daff in all ways: color, proportion and rotund silhouette. Small numbers to offer.

Paradigmatic Yellow / Red large cup, Resplendent's cup is deeply colored and short. A tough and strong mid century modern bloom from Grant Mitsch.

A Ring Flash is a piece of photographic equipment that leaves no shadows, leaves nothing obscured. This daff is all presence with a rounded perianth and a wide orange-brimmed cup.

River Queen is another Bill Pannill seedling that is perfect in almost every way. Becoming a show favorite for at least two decades, this peerless all white large cup has collected more ribbons than you can shake a stick at. This riverboat namesake of this daffodil once worked ferry service between New Bedford and Nantucket thus likely ferried some daffodil bulbs in her day.

A recent introduction ; a feminine white jonquilla, two to a scape, with a delicate pink blush at the rim. From Carlos van der Veek , as is the contemporaneous jonquil Amore Mio . Not sure if this daffodil is named for a person, or is an affirmation as in " Roger that . Say yes to love".

A tiny, greenish yellow triandrus that is so wasp-waisted it looks like one half of an English Christmas cracker. Gets its sweet fragrance from its daddy, the jonquil henriquesii. ADS Miniature from Walter Blom.

Well formed and well mannered White / Orange double daffodil. Rongoiti Gem never has a bad hair day. Bright and rounded from New Zealand.

A Gold Trumpet that is so rounded that you might easily mistake it for a large cup. A show daffodil from Clive Postles by way of Goldfinger,sister to Midas Touch. Tall yet mid blooming.

A Yellow/Orange Cup with fantastic substance, though unlike the others Rowell Fair sports a shorter pugish nosed cup of even color,

This is an example of why a large part of our nursery is devoted to antique daffodils : a tremendous flower with a long track record and plenty of potential yet. Rustom Pasha is a bright and spirited red yellow large cup from an earlier golden age of daffodil crossings. Many times a seed parent. ADS Historics