Northern Ireland

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.

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

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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Bilbo, named for Bilbo Boggins of the Hobbit, is an older seedling from earlier in the career of the prolific Brian S. Duncan but new to our list in 2026. A pink-cupped daffodil, it is tall for a cyclamineus and can develop wavy character in the blooms. From foundling, but more upright and vigorous.

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.

There is a stable of Brian Duncan White / Pink small cups that we find so rewarding it is hard to pick a favorite. Camilla Clara Kate is so robust and substantial that we think it is time to close the book. A stem like a utility pole, a bloom without weakness. An example of why we love small cups. A lovely competitor that ought always to be in your quiver as it is always easy to find a flawless bloom.

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.

Causeway Sunset

A reverse bi-color double from Mr Duncan. This is an extremely rare division and color combination, we have never seen it before. You can count the number of registered cultivars in this classification on your fingers.

From Trigonometry and Diversity, Cosine is a Brian Duncan Split cup with a broad, and only slightly interrupted, coral-colored corona. Limited quantities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Firebright

Foundling found a patron and went on to raise her own family of remarkable offspring: Elizabeth Ann, Kaydee, Georgi Girl. A short barreled pink cup with reflexed white petals. Cyclamineus. Pollen and seed fertile. Makes a nice colorful clump. Adoption papers filed at checkout. ADS Classic.

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.

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

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.

In the large population of pink cups, small-cupped daffodils are a small subset. Good Faith is more well rounded and a bit deeper in color than, say our favored Little Jewel. Good Faith extends the season by blooming later than the others.

Greek Surprise

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.

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.

A newer Brian Duncan red cup of great quality, size and substance

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.

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

An older all-golden show flower Nial Watson's Janet's Gold is always poised to perform in competition : form, color, substance. New to us this year.

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.

A new unregistered split-cupped seedling from Brian Duncan, Lady B is a descendant from Drama Queen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

A handsome new introduction, this split cup, Prom Queen is from Brian S. Duncan, a cross of Trigonometry x Diversity

A pugnacious, N.minor-like miniature trumpet from Brian Duncan, Punk has been hanging around the hood for a while but new to our list. From Candlepower.

A feisty little thing, Road Runner is named not for the flower but for the way it increases . Has a whole reverse bi-color thing going on along with vigor, detail and substance. Very popular.Beep Beep.

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.

A tiny large-cup from the species N.rupicola, as early and as cute as it gets in the land of Daffodils. An ADS miniature by measurement if not by declaration. From Brian Duncan.

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

An newer, all-white and vigorous triandrus from the nursery of Brian Duncan. Also a very good and improved candidate for the landscape and for cutting.

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.

Picasso may have said "Cezanne is the father of us all", whereas most modern pink cupped daffodils can claim "Dailmanach is the father of us all". A large ribbon taking pink cup, Sheskin is named after a place in Northern Ireland.

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

If you are looking for Yum-Yum, then its all white, flat, and improved small-cupped daughter Silver Choice from Brian Duncan is your best bet. Yum -Yum has met its demise and is no longer in our nursery. We have good numbers of Silver Choice, despite sounding like a Medicare supplement plan, it throws perfect blooms of good substance.

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.

A coy, floriferous, white triandrus from Brian Duncan, recently registered, with a broad and a bit of a shallow cup. Up to seven blooms on a scape,Sol Sisters got to stick together.

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.

An older Brian Duncan Pink ringed large cup, Songket is a little more prim and delicate than her father, the well named and well loved High Society who is no longer in our nursery . Songket is a close relative and a replacement candidate.

Brian Duncan's modern take on a triandrus, but with a profound yellow color. Late. From Hillstar X Little Bell.

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

A smooth and substantial new pink cup from Brian Duncan. A nick free and flawless show flower.

An older Duncan seedling, Tiger Moth is consistent with good substance and even color in the not elongated cup. Cyclamineus are a bit more shade tolerant than their taller daffodil relatives.

An all white seedling from Brian Duncan where species triandrus pollen is placed on the super breeder jonquilla Hillstar. Triple Choice seems reliably throw three pendant blooms per scape.

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.

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.

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.

Upright presence and charm in a small package of a trumpet from Mr. Duncan. An ADS miniature this is an older registration and new to us, from Candlepower.

A recent competition quality gold trumpet from the workshop of Brian Duncan. Named for the Westerpark in Amterdam, just southwest of the lovely Jordaan neighborhood.

This is from a group of Brian Duncan Gold Trumpet seedlings that were shown in the UK but heretofore never registered. Like its siblings Westerstorm is a Goldfinger x Disquiet cross.

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.

When wild things occur in the nursery you could get a floriferous little tazetta with translucent shellfish-pink cups. How are you going to keep them down on the farm when they have seen this one? Wildly Romantic in so many ways, nearly overlooked, Wild Romance is a Soprano x dubius cross from Gamemaster Duncan.

A Brian Duncan jonquil that slowly unfolds to all white with a green eye. Brings a soft and romantic patina to the vase, brings a gift of the Blarney to the bench. Wonderfully late, three blooms to the stem. A popular item.

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)