Dutch Lemon Drops
Classification:
5 W-Y[ Triandrus ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:

Unknown

Unknown
, the Netherlands
Registered:
Yes, 2007
Registrant:

Jan Pennings

Jan Pennings is a second generation bulb grower in the Netherlands.

He started his own bulb nursery in 1971, in Breezand which is about 50 miles north of Amsterdam.

His business Bloembollenkwekerij J.S. Pennings 'de Bilt' is now co-managed by his son Joost Pennings and Dick van Duin.

Jan Pennings is an internationally recognized authority on daffodils and has been chairman of the RHS bulb and tulip committee and is on the board of directors of the American Daffodil Society.

Jan received the ADS highest honor in 2014, the Gold Medal of the American Daffodil Society which is awarded to an individual deemed by the Honors Committee as being worthy of “recognition of creative work of a pre-eminent nature in the understanding and advancement of daffodils.”

Jan Pennings
, Breezand, the Netherlands
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 2002.

AGM 2002; 
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fls up to 3 per stem; star-shaped, facing down; perianth segments narrowly ovate, spreading or a little reflexed, plane, separated; corona cup-shaped, long, lightly ribbed, mouth straight, with rim obscurely crenate.

Origin of Name

Originally marketed under the name ‘Lemon Drops’. The word ‘Dutch’ was added to the name to distinguish this daffodil from Grant Mitsch’s 1956 ‘Lemon Drops’.

Synonyms:

'Lemon Drops#'

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Photo #57853 Sue Taylor, EnglandDutch Lemon DropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #53729 Ann Hibbs, USADutch Lemon DropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #50783 Kirby Fong, USADutch Lemon DropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #50572 John Scheepers Bulbs, Inc., USADutch Lemon DropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #47784 Kirby Fong, USADutch Lemon DropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #47780 Mary Durtschi, USADutch Lemon DropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #47735 Coleen Toone, USADutch Lemon DropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #47734 Coleen Toone, USADutch lemon dropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #22992 Ian Scroggy, Northern IrelandDutch lemon dropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #22926 Hein Meeuwissen, the NetherlandsDutch lemon dropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #16611 Becky Fox Matthews, USADutch lemon dropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #14033 Kirby Fong, USADutch lemon dropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #14032 Kirby Fong, USADutch lemon dropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #12503 Mary Lou Gripshover, USADutch lemon dropsDutch Lemon Drops, 5 W-Y, Unknown Hybridizer, the Netherlands, 2007
Photo #12502 Mary Lou Gripshover, USA