Mid Bloomers

Androcles pulled a thorn from the paw of a pursuing lion who in turn befriended him for life. Androcles the daffodil has calmed and dethorned us also: we depend on this double daffodil in large numbers for the vase and the border. Its broad, softly cream colored, and long lasting blooms project a quiet roar . There are a lot of pale white / yellow doubles, but all- whites are more rare. Bred by the American Bill Pannill, a businessman who created many perfect blooms one at at time.

Angel's Whisper : An equally robust sister to Angel's Breath. Both are a species Jonquil x species triandrus cross. From Tasmania.

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.

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.

An older orange large cupped daffodil, Banker is dependable and easily produces a flawless, substantial, and winning bloom.

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.

Slender snouted and flared in pale pink, Beautiful Lady is ready-made for competition and vase-eye-candy. A newer Duncan seedling from the greatly missed Chanson.

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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.

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.

A new large cup daffodil from the van der Veeks with an intense deep pink colored corona and pure white mucronate petals . Bregt is recently registered.

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.

Yellow and pink-cupped trumpets are a special, rarified group in the world of daffodils, highly sought after with most being showstoppers. Bronzewing is perhaps more sophisticated than the rest, a Brian Duncan bruiser with four inch blossoms and a corpulent cup. The petals have a fade to white at mid rib creating an even greater contrast with that big ole rich-pink cup. Not a back bencher.

Brooke Ager brings a lot of love and excitement wherever she goes. An intermediate, a dwarf and a large cup, she stands out with a substantial and intense rosy pink cup. There is some echo of the cup color into the petals. This well regarded daff a bright and attractive contrast to the rockery and close up beds. The rich colored cup along with a trim rounded perianth and stylish anthers makes her a show bench natural.

Anyone referring to a flower named 'Buttercup' elicits all kinds of confusion. Are they referencing a Ranunculus, using a generic term for jonquils that bloom freely in the South, increasingly as an alias for One of the several daffodils registered under that name? We offer the historic Rev. Engleheart jonquilla 'Buttercup', a strong grower with large flowers more reminiscent of a historic small cup. Rare. Brings intense happiness to the gardener. Smells good.

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

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.

Canyon Wren belongs to the inscrutable "miscellaneous category". Bright in color and spirit Canyon Wren is a tazetta x triandrus cross that could be mistaken for a jonquil. A Grant Mitsch Bird Series cultivar. Scented. Elegant. Show it with a sign in the window that says "I am not a miniature".

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.

There is a lot to appreciate about Castle Howard : velvety substance, the linen white color, the sheer size and architecture of the bloom. Howie can be a handful to husband but in the end insanely rewarding. An imposing presence when fully unfurled on the bench.

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.

A white large cupped daffodil from Clive Postles with a very softly colored yellow cup, 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, proving you can never be too slender or too pink. Fragrant, floriferous and vigorous.

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.

A breathtaking small-cup of great restfulness and beauty, Crystal Choice is all white with a wide, wide perianth. A perfect bloom maker, but with some vulnerability. Brian Duncan.

Triandrus and Jonquils have an affinity for each other, when they cross it doesn't get much better than this. Dainty Monique is spellbinding and petite. From New Zealand. an ADS miniature.

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

This new Large cupped bi-color Veek seedling is not yet registered..

A cup so broad, pink, and unbroken that it eclipses the perianth behind it, Diversity is a poster child for showy split cupped daffodils. A good competitor on the bench, as our stocks increase I expect diversity to attract the attention of cut flower growers. Parent to the split cup Cosine.

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. Limited.

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.

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A frill-cup that is also a thrill-cup, ever ready for coronation in the garden. Substantial, trumpet like blooms with a lot of regal pomp and presence. Recent introduction.

An impressive upright and look-at-me split cup Electrus is an older seedling from Mr Duncan, Impressive both in the garden and in the vase.

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.

This vigorous Jonquil is a selection, by Walter Blom, of the species N.rupicola (section Apodanthi). Registered twenty years ago we can only assume it was a parent for many of the descendants of his breeding programs. As a selection we assume that this bulbs is fertile both ways. An ADS Miniature.

Here's a case of cross cultural pollination : two American seedlings crossed by an Irishman. A tridandrus with an unusually deep yellow color and substance. From Hillstar, recently registered. ADS Miniature.

This idiosyncratic caffeinated jonquil is floriferous, reflexed, colorful and boldly spirited. Espresso is a novel van der Veek mashup that defies easy classification. We suspect that Espresso will find a place in the garden and in competition.

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.

Watching a planting of Firebrand in bloom blow in the breeze on a sunny spring day is an encounter that may never let slip from memory. A poster child for the greatness of historic, small-cupped daffodils : bred mostly by tweed wearing clerics and the landed gentry. A handsome devil, much like Lucifer . Increases with a little care.

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.

A newly registered bodacious orange cupped seedling from Dr. John Reed. As bold and mellifluous as the Flügelhorn of Chuck Mangione.

Fragrant Spring is a luxurious double Dutch Double - She gets her powerful perfume from her mother and her double form from her father, Acropolis. We are listing it because we think it so belongs in the vase.

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

Normally we superlatives but we are quite okay with calling Gay Kybo one of the most beautiful narcissus blooms 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.

Gay has had a dramatic life, she has gone from rare , to huge productions, to infirmity and back again : today she ie again very rare. 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, or something more scatalogical.

A new small-cupped bi-color, a descendant of Moon Madness, Ginto makes round and flat breezy and easy. Brian Duncan.

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.

Grand Monarque is an old and important Tazetta, once grown in great numbers for the cut flower market, both in the US and the Netherlands. It has produced some remarkable seedlings establishing its reputation as a super parent. Plainly colored, Floriferous and fragrant. From the species N. tazetta subsp. lacticolor.

A well-known and well-regarded dependable pink cup from John Reed. Mid-west sensible, mid-west nice. If you have some skill you can upend a daffodil show with Great Joy.

Van Der Veek seedlings tend to be large flowered on strong stems: bred to grow vigorously and stand out in the landscape. This gringo is really free spirited and corpulent, a fruity color that is not sulfury at all.

A stellar, but older, just-registered, bi-colored large cupped seedling from Brian Duncan. As for the name, "Hard to Beat" may be accurate: in Ireland may be a bit "cheeky", but in New York that's just plain old chutzpeh. Coming to a daffodil show near you soon.

Cross of Fiona Mc Killiop x Queen'­s Guard.

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.

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.

This newer seedling from John Hunter is likely a viridiflora and triandrus cross. Like Polar Hunter and other spring fall viridiflora crosses Hunter Morn is a triple threat : early to rise, frangrant, long-lasting with great substance. On second thought maybe that is a quadruple threat. Two to four blooms per scape.

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.

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.

A highly unusual jonquil from Bill Welch. A bit of an imposter, Kaykay emulates all that is tazetta. Thought to have fertility both ways. Just a handful available. I am growing it hoping the florists take notice.

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 DÈlicatesse is a proven winner on the show bench. Four inch flowers bloom above the foliage. the leaves.

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.

Here's a split cup that is calm and confident : soft yellow and soft pink in a broad and orderly perianth and corona formation. A John Reed seedling, it is newly registered in 2026 but the seedling number suggests that it is a cross from 2001. A lovely whispering presence of a bloom.

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.

When some one asks you to dance, you should always say yes. Especially if it is someone with a colorful and contrasty split-cupped face. With a face like that, oh the stories they can tell. Vigorous white and orange grower from van der Veek.

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

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.

The cup is a very cool pink color for a daffodil, so blueish that is called lilac. With a very showy flanged cup that is uncommon in a cyclamineus, Lilac Charm is an improbable and delicate thing. Limited numbers available.

Limequilla is a superstar jonquil hybrid: floriferous; beautifully formed; fertile ? which is notable for a jonquilla cross. Up to five blooms on a stem, ever-changing in color from yellow to greenish ivory, every day's march to maturity is enthralling. Often seen on the show bench, by itself or especially in collections.

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

Guilty as charged, for unknown reasons we often overlook Little Jewel, but likely due to youthful excess. This daffodil is aptly named and rather unique, being that there are not a lot of fully pink-colored small cups. The father of the fantastic Fencourt Jewel, Little Jewel is a good grower and delicate at the same time -- a very nice bloom.

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.

We just did a check and we have at one time or another listed a lot of John Gibson's Daffodils, maybe half of his lifetime registrations. Love to Dream a large all white trumpet with a certain amount of blingy attitude is very much in the vein of impressive English show flowers. Registered in 2026.

The van der Veek bred "Love" series has many flamboyant expressions of love. Loving Her is a pointedly double triangle bloom with overlapping petals and a rich orange snout. Say it loud I am big and proud, and plenty amorous too. Easy to select a perfect bloom.

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.

Not Black magic, but Pink Irish magic. Magician's Choice is Brian Duncan's take on the legendary daffodil Magician. A s ubstantial Pink Cup for the show bench.

Prim and proper and a contender for the show bench. A head to head competitor Majestic Gold is a deep and evenly colored gold trumpet. A straightforward and balanced bloom.

A sotto voce of a pianissimo, whisper of a pink dwells on the cup of this older Brian Duncan all-white cyclamineus. Mary Lou makes an intriguing feminine flower for competition or a special place in the rockery.

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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 a modern descendant 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. An ADS Intermediate.

A feisty little filly, Miss Klein is a jonquil hybrid, likely from Rupicola. Impossibly small bulbs make a vigorous plant, with often three ( four ?) blooms per stem. On the mini end of miniature she is a good one to have for the rock garden or cutting.

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.

We list more miniature daffodils than pretty much anyone, and not a single one of those miniatures was conceived in the Netherlands. Our Dutch brethren bequeath upon us an impressive array of daffodils of great stature, bright color and breadth of bloom : here is another example of all that Lowland largesse. A very large, muy grande, and colorful, muy colorido, bloom on a landscape-grade stem. Muy Bien, very good! With a little gentle-fingered suppression of the ribby-ness and natural reflex in the perianth Muy Bien can be a competition contender. From Carlos van der Veek.

Ombersley is a newer, large yellow trumpet of great substance and rich color. Equally at home on the bench or in the garden, it is named after a village in Worcestershire, England. Saucy.

A very sharp show daffodil, on a good day you only need one to win. A Brian Duncan small cup.

Papaya King was a street front hot dog stand on 86th street in Manhattan (aka Nieuw Amsterdam) where a student, blue collar or office worker could get a dog and delicious tall Papaya drink for under a dollar. Though now defunct, the thirsty daffodil enthusiast can still get the same refreshing combination in yellow and papaya pink in this new introduction from North Holland. Collared split-cupped crowns held above broad upright leaves on substantial scapes Papaya King should quench multiple appetites : border, bench and vase.

From the cool sands of the Dutch surfside of the English Channel comes this baroque and lusty Yellow and Pink split cup. Some of our favorite Split cups look like they are exhausted at the end of the blooming day after trying to hold their fancy faces erect on wimpy stems. Peach on the Beach has stiff scapes that are well-matched to holding the intermediate blooms aloft.

This daffodil seems to inspire a lot of excitement, desire, pushing, and shoving, Pink Climax is a stunning Yellow / Pink Large cup, which is a real thing , and it is John Reed seedling, which is another thing too. The soft pink in the cup is a bluish-pink if you know what we mean.We have a few more to offer this year.

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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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 in USDA zone 8, while White Pearl is not. Polly is a lady of substance and fertile both ways.

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.

A North Holland native of imposing size, style and substance, Queen Behaviour is a newly registered double bred by the local legend Jan de Winter. When you transplant this beauty in your garden you too can tell the lesser competitors to sashay away. Cut flower potential.

Erlicheer is a long time favorite of southern gardeners and florists for nearly a century. It was however, being sterile, a genetic dead end until Bill Welch engineered a successful cross resulting in Rachel's Magic Spell. Unique in form for both a double and a tazetta this is a daffodil that is superior in all attributes: scent, stature, strength. If you grow for florists they will flash mob this flower.

Highly reflexed and richly colored, but not sulfurous, Razzmatazz is yet another entrancing elfin bloom from the late Mr Walter Blom. Floriferous with the spirit of a triandrus combines with the foliage and uplift of a jonquils. Multiple layers of charm on a stick.

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

Robustian is a well-named pink cup -he does sport an overall robust feeling and throws a bloom of great substance. We think that there is likely no-end to the depth of pink color you may coax from the cup if you can supply cool, cool Northern-Ireland-like nights while Robustian is in bud.

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 trumpet, a red cupped trumpet, a sunproof red cupped trumpet, another fine Navy day, that is Sailor's Choice.

If there were ever a narcissus trying to emulate a ranunculus, then Serena Beach is it. A serene beauty, a love child of Dallas and the no longer existent Gay Song, Serena Beach will elevate a May wedding. In the vase or border a wonderful bloom. Quantity Pricing.

A reliable party animal for a while now, Sheelagh's Party is new to our guest list, and makes a very well rounded guest. A John Gibson white/pink-rimmed Large cup.

Blooms out of the leaves, aye. Smithy strength stems hold the 4 inch double blooms well aloft, aye my liege. A bit of orange-yellow in the whorl makes for a two-toned effect. Sherborne hails from the kingdom of Camelot and is a grand garden flower with an imposing presence.

A small, not miniature, triandrus, yellow on yellow seedling from Brian S. Duncan. from Hillstar cross species.

Smooth Criminal is some kind of hybridizer's triumph in the quest for round, smooth overlapping petals, and a crenelated yet symmetrical corona. A bloom of perfect balance and saturated color. So named as the bloom will likely steal the show I suppose. Sunproof, exhibition bench ready.

While most of Mr. Blom's seedlings are miniatures, ivory colored Snellebel pushes the envelope as a larger, not miniature, but still dwarf cyclamineus. Swooping in with a birdlike form, it is swift, reflexed and thrilling.

Labelled an intermediate and labelled a dwarf I dutifully planted Solera in the miniatures bed. And there it blooms every year like Baby Huey over-taxing the crib, a sixth grader towering over the principal. Makes lots of consistent blooms that develop a lovely color along with a flattened perianth. I see Solera often at shows as a dependable team player, especially in collections. It is more late than mid season blooming for us in Connecticut. From Brian Duncan.

Evenly mellow yellow all over with a flared cup, this Summer Breeze is rounded and cool with out being cold, From Clive Postles.

For no discernible reason it is unusual to see anyone in North Holland wearing a hat. Given the relentless wind and rain it is hard to fathom why, but my Dutch friend claims that he doesn't wear a hat because he doesn't want to go bald. But when the sun comes out in spring and falls on the Netherland's pates there is an outbreak of communal mass ecstasy. The baroque and unbounded joy expressed by the daffodil SunDazed is exemplary: A collision of ivory and mango frills and folds. Like any worthy landscape daffodil it blooms completely out of the leaves. By Carlos van der Veek. This daffodil is unregistered.

A recent Brian Duncan introduction, a yellow / orange with a more cylindrical cup, for competition.

Another muscular and bright trumpet shaped large cup from the van der Veeks, Sunny Sunday is strong on landscape positive attributes: upright, contrasty in color, sun proof, and blooms out of the leaves. The perianth is not too ribby, some grooming you could exhibit it . Newley registered , we offered this daffodil previously as F69.

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Herr Sander's eponymous seedling glows with a depth of color, substance, and vitality that is jaw-dropping, first time, everytime. A new high water mark in terms of daffodil quality, this triandrus is a cross of Ice Chimes and Fairy Chimes. Named for the hybridizer by the registrant as encomium for his work in narcissus. You won't believe your eyes at first.

The late German horticulturist Theo Sander's extensive work in coaxing fertile offspring from Jonquil crosses was methodical and groundbreaking. Here we can appreciate one of his many seedlings, Theo's Gold is on first site striking in its substance, profound color and overall virility. This a remarkable plant that is tirelessly interesting.

Extends the work in fertile jonquils made by the Havens : Regeneration x Limequilla

Like other division 12's Tiny Bubbles makes a lot of blooms per scape, but blooms perhaps more well-formed and elegant than the others. Tiny Bubbles is often found on the bench, particularly as a team player in miniature and other collections. Astounding planted in large numbers in the informal garden. A modern classic from the gentleman of southern daffodil culture Brent Heath.

Toscane Clive Postles

From the prolific Brian Duncan we offer three show daffs that are in the vein of the classic lipstick-rimmed small-cupped yellow daffodil Pacific Rim: Burning Ring; Ring Fence ;Triple Crown ;. Although all throw flawless blooms, we personally would wager Triple Crown by a nose except that in the UK they Award the Triple Crown to Rugby players not horse and jockey.

A very broad show daff with a delicate apple blossom pink color gradation to the cup. The cup is not crenulated or toothy, making for few or no nicks to the perianth. From Brian Duncan, a newer seedling.

Daffodils are cold loving flowers; we shiver a bit when someone gives a daffodil a tropical name. But this is an American bred, beefy golden pink double that can take on any latitude, Cancer or Capricorn. Strong stem and long lasting, you will want that. Fertile. Best for cuts. Quantity pricing.

If we had a cool name like Vendell we too would be sharp, cool and handsome. Coloration like Queen of the North the petals and cup, yet rounder and made for competition.

A new tazetta from the late Theo Sanders with remarkably deep and colorful cups. Averages three large blooms per scape. Named by Carlos van der Veek "Thank you" in German for all the good work Herr Sanders did for the daffodil. Newly registered, limited numbers available. A truly choice cultivar.

An older, yet newly registered exhibition quality pink cup from Brian Duncan. Wasteland Pearl is reference to a Japanese kind of pearl jewelry, but some virtue may be lost in the translation. Smooth and orderly with rich color.

When people first meet Waylon they remark about his bright amber color. Waylon is additionally a beefy double on a substantial scape, a good player in the vase mixed with tulips, leucojum and polyganatum. Makes a dramatic bandmate resulting in a very sunny ebullient border. Not sure how he will do in the judge's eye, but he does have great eye catching susbstance in the perianth-corona folds.

At one time it was said that you couldn't win top prize at a U.K. daffodil show without entering a bloom of Goldfinger. One year the grower of Goldfinger mixed-up the stock with another variety : subsequently the next Spring there was collective panic across the British Isles as the daffodil blooms emerged. Westerwind is from a group of Brian Duncan gold trumpet seedlings heretofore never registered. Like its Westerly named siblings Westerwind is a Goldfinger x Disquiet cross.

White Lady is an old Engleheart variety that is maddeningly similar to Queen of the North. Having spent much time looking at the two I can say that if you showed me one flower and asked me which, I could not say. Show me one of each of them together I could easily pick out White Lady. She had a deeper color coalescing at the rim of the cup. Also lightly scented.

It is difficult to identify the old small cups from their shape alone: their form changes greatly as the bloom matures. I am sure that at one time long ago some reprobate mixed a stock of White Lady and Queen of the North together further compounding the confusion. Seagull is also similar.

Like most of the old small cups White Lady is as tough as an iron maiden, blooms well out of the leaves, and a top choice for a sparse vista (aka "Naturalized") planting. ADS Historic.

An easy and smooth wave of a white small cup, White Spring is an English bred Tall Daff. Extremely Limited.

In a previous incarnation we were not about soft colors, and abhorred even the suggestion of beige. But we fell hard for Wild Honeyon first sight; it throws tall, substantial, consistent and perfect blooms easily. Feels like a reverse bi-color, but is not classified as such. Incredibly long lasting through heat and wind, dare we say, a superior cultivar on many fronts.

Some flowers are always shucking and jiving and waving in the wind, trying to get the attention of any passing pollinators : both the winged and the tweed-wearing types. Winks a bright intermediate from Badbury Rings doesn't have to do much more than, well.. give a wink. ADS Intermediate.

Large and round Brian Duncan Orange cup named for the Ferris Wheel at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. B 09-37 (Online X Causeway Sunset)

There is some kind of farm girl beauty in smile of the scrunched-up, pink, and sun-kissed face of You're Beautiful. Not too formal, not ribald nor an exhibitionist , simply a nice pink double from Carlos van der Veek.

Here is a spicy blend : a frill-cupped large cup from the late Dr.Reed, just recently registered. While the libertine spirit of Za'atar may not appeal to the palate of every Judge, it is certainly hard to overlook thanks to its simmering color and frilly form.

An orange cupped trumpet that makes a nearly perfect cylinder of a cup on a perfectly flat perianth, Zachary's Zest is a prime example of a superior English show daffodil. Big everywhere a trumpet should be, and flat and round where needed too.

A mango-colored large cup that is richly folded and richly colored like a few other recent seedling from Carlos van Der Veek. Substantial flower, strong stem. There is a lot of bulb business conducted on the Belkmerweg, which is a main North/South drag in the municipality of Zype in the Netherlands. (Dutch y = ij). Earlier known as Zypani from the time of the Spanish occupation.