Happy Ending
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Classification:
4 W-W[ Double ]
Season:
Very Late
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1982
Hybridizer:

Mary Lou Gripshover

Columbus, Ohio, USA; Franklin, Tennessee; Milford, Ohio

Mary Lou Gripshover
, Ohio, USA
Registered:
Yes, 1997
Special Class:
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.

Seed Parent: 
White Sail 4 W-W 
C.A.J. van der Wereld, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1946
N. poeticus
White Sail
Pollen Parent: 
Glory of Lisse 9 W-YYR 
Johan Segers, the Netherlands
Year Registered: 1901
N. radiiflorus var. poetarum seedling
Glory of Lisse
Seedling Number:
75-17
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 55 mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments white; the outer whorl broadly ovate; the inner whorls more narrowly ovate; corona segments minute. Resembles a more robust ‘White Sail’. Varies between Divs 4 and 3. Sometimes comes single.

Origin of Name

Named because it is the last bloom of the season.

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Happy EndingHappy Ending, 4 W-W, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1997
Photo #61844 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAHappy EndingHappy Ending, 4 W-W, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1997
Photo #61843 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAHappy EndingHappy Ending, 4 W-W, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1997
Photo #33181 Mary Lou Gripshover, USAHappy endingHappy Ending, 4 W-W, Mary Lou Gripshover, United States, 1997
Photo #3341 Mary Lou Gripshover, USA