Bunting
Classification:
7 Y-O[ Jonquilla ]
Season:
Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1953
Hybridizer:

Grant E. Mitsch

b 1907, d 1989.
Founded Grant Mitsch Novelty Daffodils, Canby, Oregon, USA

Grant E. Mitsch

Photo approx.1973

Grant E. Mitsch
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1965
Awards:

AGM Award

This plant earned the Award of Garden Merit (AGM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants of outstanding excellence for garden decoration or use (whether for open garden or under glass). The award is only given following a period of assessment. Assessment can take place in one or more of the following ways: 1) Trials at one of the Society’s Gardens or at some other venue; 2) Visits to specialist collections; 3) Round-table discussions drawing on the collective expertise and experience of Committee members, with the opportunity to call on further specialists when necessary.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1998.

AGM 1998; 
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.

Seed Parent: 
Narvik 2 Y-O 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1940
Carbineer x Porthilly
Narvik
Pollen Parent: 
N. jonquilla Division 13 Species
Section: Jonquilla
N. jonquilla
Seedling Number:
060/9
Chromosomes:
22
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fls 2 per stem, 75 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, rich golden yellow, with white mucro, spreading, concave or with margins incurling, ribbed, overlapping 1/3 to 1/2; inner segments more narrowly ovate, with margins more deeply rolled; corona smooth, orange, mouth straight, very broadly and shallowly lobed, wavy, with rim entire. Resembles a smoother and stronger ‘Kinglet’.

Origin of Name

Part of Grant Mitsch’s Bird Series. Named after the bird, Bunting, in this case probably the Lazuli Bunting which is native in his home state of Oregon.

Click on the thumbnails to see the full size photos  

BuntingBunting, 7 Y-O, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1965
Photo #56156 Hein Meeuwissen, the NetherlandsBuntingBunting, 7 Y-O, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1965
Photo #48899 U.S. National Arboretum, USABuntingBunting, 7 Y-O, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1965
Photo #36929 Rose Bradley, USABuntingBunting, 7 Y-O, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1965
Photo #20896 Tom Stettner, USABuntingBunting, 7 Y-O, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1965
Photo #15306 Hein Meeuwissen, the NetherlandsBuntingBunting, 7 Y-O, Grant E. Mitsch, United States, 1965
Photo #1311 Kirby Fong, USA