Highdown Bells
Classification:
12 W-W[ Miscellaneous ]
Season:
Spring
Hybridizer:

Sir Colonel Frederick Stern

d 1967. Goring-by-Sea, Sussex, England. Knighted 1956

Sir Colonel Frederick Stern
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1969
Registrant:

Lady Stern

Lady Stern
Awards:

AM(p) Award

This plant earned the Award of Merit (AM).

Given on the recommendation of Committees to plants which are of great merit for exhibition

Qualified for cultivation in pots, Pans or bowls.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1969.AM(p) 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.

Seed Parent: 
N. cantabricus Division 13 Species
Section: Bulbocodium
N. cantabricus
Pollen Parent: 
N. triandrus subsp. triandrus var. concolor Division 13 Species
Section: Ganymedes
N. triandrus subsp. triandrus var. concolor
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 35 mm wide; perianth segments slightly reflexed, irregular, widely separated; corona cup-shaped, ribbed, with mouth straight, rim entire.

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