Grafton Gold
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Classification:
2 Y-Y[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1996
Hybridizer:

John Gibson

Kettering, Northamptonshire, England

John Gibson
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 2013
Awards:

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 2022.AM(e) 2022; 
Special Classes:
ADS Intermediates

The American Daffodil Society maintains a "Suggested List of Intermediate-Sized Daffodils".

The ADS defines an intermediate daffodil as a standard daffodil in Divisions 1, 2, 3, 4, or 11 having a single floret whose diameter is typically greater than 50mm and through 80mm.

Intermediate daffodils may be entered in ADS show exibition classes for standard daffodils as well as classes reserved for intermediate daffodils.

, The Daffodil Society Intermediates
Seed Parent: 
Bryanston 2 Y-Y 
John W. Blanchard, England
Year Registered: 1977
Ormeau x Saint Keverne
Bryanston
Pollen Parent: 
open pollinated
Seedling Number:
2-20-92
Pedigree Chart:
Pedigree TreeClick this icon to display the Pedigree Chart for Grafton Gold
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 74mm wide; perianth segments 30mm long, very broadly ovate, blunt, brilliant yellow, with white mucro, spreading, plane to slightly concave, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments narrower, less prominently mucronate, more nearly plane; corona 21mm long, funnel-shaped, angled, vivid yellow, mouth a little expanded, wavy, with rim obscurely crenate.

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Grafton GoldGrafton Gold, 2 Y-Y, John Gibson, England, 2013
Photo #52789 Bob Moore, ScotlandGrafton GoldGrafton Gold, 2 Y-Y, John Gibson, England, 2013
Photo #52545 Michael Baxter, EnglandGrafton GoldGrafton Gold, 2 Y-Y, John Gibson, England, 2013
Photo #39536 Kirby Fong, USAGrafton GoldGrafton Gold, 2 Y-Y, John Gibson, England, 2013
Photo #39535 Kirby Fong, USAGrafton GoldGrafton Gold, 2 Y-Y, John Gibson, England, 2013
Photo #39440 Kirby Fong, USAGrafton GoldGrafton Gold, 2 Y-Y, John Gibson, England, 2013
Photo #39439 Kirby Fong, USAGrafton GoldGrafton Gold, 2 Y-Y, John Gibson, England, 2013
Photo #39438 Kirby Fong, USAGrafton GoldGrafton Gold, 2 Y-Y, John Gibson, England, 2013
Photo #35051 Kirby Fong, USAGrafton GoldGrafton Gold, 2 Y-Y, John Gibson, England, 2013
Photo #35050 Kirby Fong, USA