Blue Bird
Classification:
2 W-W[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Michael Jefferson-Brown

Michael Jefferson-Brown
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1969
Special Class:
ADS Classics

In 2011, the American Daffodil Society (ADS) designated a new exhibition section for any daffodil registered between 1940 and 1969, inclusive named "Classics".

The ADS believed that such a section would interest a different segment of exhibitors and might encourage bulb growers to keep these post-war era cultivars available.

The ADS Historic daffodil period ended shortly after World War II started, when marketing and exporting of daffodils temporarily ceased.

When trade resumed, daffodils were different, improvements in form were most noticeable.

Descendants:
None
Comments

A description according to Jefferson-Brown’s 1970 catalog: “We have grown this seedling for some years and use it as the standard for whiteness. It is the whitest crowned flower we have, the vivid white crown being dazzling blue-white like snow with the sun shining on it from a clear blue sky. The perianth is of wide oval petals.”

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Blue birdBlue Bird, 2 W-W, Michael Jefferson-Brown, England, 1969
Photo #4563 Wells Knierim, USA