Rare and Limited

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.

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

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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Theo Sanders triandrus cross Silver Bells x (Perpetuation x Limequjilla).

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.

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.

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.

You get a lot of rosy acreage in this older American bred large cup. Bold Pink is just that, and a kind of unique coloring for this form of daffy.

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.

A fragrant and early little cyclamineus offspring of Gipsy Queen, Bunnie Bee is another miniature from the universe of tiny flowers by Walter Blom.

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.

Cameo King

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 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.

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 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.

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.

Croila is an English, all-white, show daff that has been winning ribbons for many decades now. New our list, Croila makes a perfect perianth with substance and has many descendents.

Species Daffodil N. cuatrecasasii var. cuatrecasasii Section Apodanthi. Pollen parent of Pequenita.

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.

A New Zealand bred stout and sturdy bi-colored trumpet. Doctor Bill is a descendant of the substantive POPS legacy.

This flawless David Jackson all white large cup has been around for a long while, and certainly around the world. From Tasmania Dust Up is new to our list.

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

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.

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

A not so recent Blom jonquil, yellow striped with white. Small and late, from Baby Moon.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail

it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea

love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive

it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky

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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.

Millennium Orange

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.

Fabulous white trumpet with Hollywood star power. Nightflightis always ribbon material in color, substance and form. Limited.

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.

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 gentle large cup, registered in 2026, Pink Marvel is softly colored and round everywhere a gentle daffodil ought to be softly colored and round. More than a show daffodil. Limited numbers.

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.

1. p. 70, Daffodils in Florida, L. van Beck

Plymouth Hoe

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.

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

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.

A floriferous and scented Jonquilla / viridiflorus cross from the California Nursery of Harold Koopowitz. Fall winter blooming in week 52. Exhibits the fortitude and substance of other viridiflorus crosses. Probably most suited to zone 8 and 9 .

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.

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.

Another spirited miniature from Mr, Duncan arising from a feral mashup of N.cyclamineus and N.assoanus. A joyful and substantive little thing.

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

A new Yellow Bulbicodium from Keira bulbs

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.

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.

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.

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)