Highfield Beauty
Classification:
8 Y-YYO[ Tazetta ]
Season:
Mid-Season to Late
Height:
Tall - greater than 67.5 cm (26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

H.R. Mott

Gawler, Tasmania, Australia

H.R. Mott
, Tasmania, Australia
Registered:
Yes, 1964
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 1999.

AGM 1999; 

*HC(g) Award

This plant earned the status of Highly Commended (HC)

*Award made after trial.

Qualified for garden decoration

Trial held at The RHS Garden, Wisley, Surrey, UK..

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1991.*HC(g) 1991; 

AM(e) 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 as a show flower.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1985.AM(e) 1985; 
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.

Chromosomes:
31
Fertility:
Usually sterile
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 63 mm wide; perianth segments very broad, blunt and prominently mucronate, brilliant greenish yellow, spreading, somewhat concave or with margins incurved, with midrib showing, overlapping; the inner segments a little inflexed and somewhat twisted; corona large, shallow bowl-shaped, lightly ribbed, vivid yellow with a narrow band of orange at rim, sometimes opening with green at base, mouth loosely frilled, split in places and overlapping, with rim almost entire. Slightly scented.

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Photo #58912 Ben Blake, USAHighfield BeautyHighfield Beauty, 8 Y-YYO, H.R. Mott, Australia, 1964
Photo #41323 John F. McLennan, New ZealandHighfield BeautyHighfield Beauty, 8 Y-YYO, H.R. Mott, Australia, 1964
Photo #40396 John Castor, USAHighfield beautyHighfield Beauty, 8 Y-YYO, H.R. Mott, Australia, 1964
Photo #11646 Ben Blake, USAHighfield beautyHighfield Beauty, 8 Y-YYO, H.R. Mott, Australia, 1964
Photo #11645 Ben Blake, USAHighfield beautyHighfield Beauty, 8 Y-YYO, H.R. Mott, Australia, 1964
Photo #11644 Ben Blake, USAHighfield beautyHighfield Beauty, 8 Y-YYO, H.R. Mott, Australia, 1964
Photo #10951 Kirby Fong, USAHighfield beautyHighfield Beauty, 8 Y-YYO, H.R. Mott, Australia, 1964
Photo #10316 Gordon Coombes, New ZealandHighfield beautyHighfield Beauty, 8 Y-YYO, H.R. Mott, Australia, 1964
Photo #10033 Nancy Tackett, USAHighfield beautyHighfield Beauty, 8 Y-YYO, H.R. Mott, Australia, 1964
Photo #9691 Noeline McLaren, New ZealandHighfield beautyHighfield Beauty, 8 Y-YYO, H.R. Mott, Australia, 1964
Photo #9690 Noeline McLaren, New ZealandHighfield beautyHighfield Beauty, 8 Y-YYO, H.R. Mott, Australia, 1964
Photo #9482 John Castor, USAHighfield beautyHighfield Beauty, 8 Y-YYO, H.R. Mott, Australia, 1964
Photo #1888 Kirby Fong, USA