For the Rock Garden

Aviva 1 W-W from Leone Low, a charming small miniature with clear star perianth and trumpet Leone named this daffodil after the daughter of her maid of honor. Aviva is the Swahili word for life. ADS Miniature.

April Tears is an Alec Gray cross of species N.jonquilla and N.triandrus. Seed parent to the terrific Tripartite. Similar to Hawera.

N. assoanus subsp.assoanus var.assoanus. Native to Spain and southern France. A lovely grower, good for breeding.

A miniature trumpet with an exuberant form. Bird Music's cyclamineus lineage shows in the swellegant long cup. Jetfire is daddy. Early Blooming. Sings in the rockery.

Blom 111-16 Delicate Design

Here's a lively new bulbocodium introduction. She is not registered as such, but for the time being we are listing it as Ballroom Belle. It was acquired as Blom Hoop 2 - 146.

Capella Gold Blom

Chipper is a cute and coy, highly-reflexed yellow triandrus with a distinctive vertical form. Soft color matures lighter in the petals. Very floriferous. Could be mistaken for a miniature. Seed fertile. A singular flower.

Dainty Miss is a siren's song in the garden. An all-white jonquil she goes it alone, only one two-inch perfectly appointed, dainty-cupped flower per stem please. Wanting a chorus of Dainty Miss for your garden is only natural. Compelling. Benchable. Miss Dainty is an ADS Classic, Wister Award winner, an achingly beautiful mid century spell of Grant Mitsch witchcraft.

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.

Dove Wings is a dainty and compact white yellow cyclamineus. ADS classic. Many awards.

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.

Englander is a cyclamineus seedling that retains just a bit of wildness tempered with just a bit of sophistication. Sporting a real long schnoz and slim reflexed petals. An ADS miniature that is a long lived resident in the rockery. Good in the pot and on the show bench. Naturally enough, Englander is better known in the UK than the US.

Rebel Rebel your face is frilly and lobed. I love you so. A recent Cyclamineus introduction from the land of van der Veek.

Why does Flowmay drive us to such devotion? She is a tiny, miniature jonquilla, all white with an impossibly delicate pink rim on the cup. So improbable a heroine, so hopeful in a world of naysaying giants. Alec Gray named this for the missus. Tiny and rare. Powerful perfume.

Expressive petals swirl around a frilled trumpet in ivory white Fuco . Fuco is a dwarf but not a miniature. Her color and form make her quite visible in the garden. Synonymous with “Little Pearl”. Late 20th century introduction. Fuco is latin for a drone bee. 

A cross of two species pseudonarcissus, Gipsy Queen is a soft white and greenish-yellow miniature trumpet from Alec Gray. Queenie is a strong grower and commands attention in the bed, pot or on the bench. Because she blooms so early, we associate her reign with late spring snowfall, but given her lineage she should perform well in the South. Alec Gray. ADS Miniature.

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.

Jonquilla var henriquesii Henriquesii is a species Jonquilla that is quite close to the variant Fernandesii. Our experience is that Henry has rounder and more mucronate petals than Fernando's narrower petals. Henry is happy, free and scented in the garden.

If asked to name one narcissus that is fundamental to our spring garden, it would have to be a species Jonquilla. Dainty with the strength and endurance of an ironman, with a fragrance second to none, Henriquesii is who we look forward to greeting every spring.

Henrique puts up a flush of foliage in the fall which lasts all winter. Jonquilla cultivars tend to come and go, but the species are persistent, even in our zone 6. The flowers manage to bloom a long time through any kind of early spring meteorological punishment. You will want to put a small vase of Henry picked from the garden in the kitchen window to keep you company.

There is a camp that argues Henriquesii and Fernandesii are synonyms. We offer both, including multiple selections from Fernandesii, for your comparison. Pollen and pod fertile. ADS Miniature

Limequilla

Older selection of N. radiiflorus var. exertus collected in France. A friendly, fertile and feral daffodil that electrifies any garden. ADS Historics.

Poet Hellenicus N. poeticus var. hellenicus, section Narcissus .Fragrant

Pumilus N. minor var. pumilus , section pseudonarcissus. A feral and thrilling thing, structured and free. Published 1951

Copper-colored daffodils ( Orange with Red cups) are the most unusual of creatures. Sabine Hay is kind of well-known, but most commercial growers won't touch it. Richly colored and exquisitely detailed you will never forget the first time you see Sabine Hay. A super breeder.

Did you ever have a friend that always stands by you ? Daffodil Snipe always rises early and proud with a unique shaped vertical bloom. Snipe is straightforward and photogenic. Extremely perennial. Cyclamineus proud. A truly great cultivar that is well worth digging and dividing. Not to be confused with the Narcissus "Jack Snipe". ADS Miniature.

Sugarbush (Pre-1954)

N.willkommii Section Jonquilla A lovely thing, we like to think that Ferdinand the Bull was put out to pasture in a field of Willkommii under cork trees in Spain.