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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

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.

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

An old an bright small-cup, Narcissus Bath's Flame was once widely grown as a cut flower. A true classic that will never go out of style. Lithe and long lived. Based on the intense color that is coaxed out of the cup in the Dutch spring weather I think this daffodil would be classified as red, not orange in the cup if it was newly introduced today,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cameo Star

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.

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 "

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.

Cherry Hall

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