Mary Poppins
Classification:
10 Y-Y[ Bulbocodium Hybrids ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Hybridizer:

Walter J.M. Blom

Hillegom, Holland; also at Cranleigh, Surrey, England; Leavesden, Hertfordshire; Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire; Albany, Oregon, USA

Walter J.M. Blom
, Oregon, USA
Registered:
Yes, 2015
Registrant:

Carlos van der Veek

Carlos van der Veek and Eric Breed are two of the principals in Fluwel, an internationally recognized bulb breeding, growing, and exporting company. Carlos founded Fluwel in 1992 and Eric joined the company in 2008. “Fluwel” is an acronym for “Flowers love u, we enjoy life.

Carlos van der Veek
, North Holland, the Netherlands
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 2016.AM (e) 2016; 
Special Class:
ADS Miniatures

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

A miniature single floreted cultivar normally possess a flower less than 50 mm (1.97") in natural spread.

For a multi-floreted miniature daffodil the guideline measurement for the floral mass is 72mm (2.83") in natural spread.

The ADS requires show exhibitors to enter miniature daffodils only in classes for specific for miniatures.

Any named, numbered, or species daffodil which appears graceful, with all its parts proportionately small, may be exhibited in Miniature classes and is eligible for all ADS awards

Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. star-shaped, 41mm wide, facing upwards, creamy white with overtones of yellow; perianth segments 16mm long, lanceolate, acute, a little inflexed, concave, smooth and of heavy substance, separated; corona 22mm long, cup-shaped, smooth, mouth a little wavy, broadly ribbed and shallowly lobed, with rim entire and somewhat constricted. 

Blooms last for a long time with countless flowers. When the first flowers wither the second draft is in full bloom. Prolific variety forms nice clumps of creamy yellow, providing drifts of abundant soft color for weeks. Has thin, grass-like foliage.

Origin of Name

Named from a contest on Facebook.  There were many submissions from which ‘Mary Poppins’ was chosen.

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Mary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #39690 Kirby Fong, USAMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #39689 Kirby Fong, USAMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #39688 Kirby Fong, USAMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #39687 Kirby Fong, USAMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #39686 Kirby Fong, USAMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #39266 Kirby Fong, USAMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #39148 Kirby Fong, USAMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #39147 Kirby Fong, USAMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #39146 Kirby Fong, USAMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #39145 Kirby Fong, USAMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #36941 Rose Bradley, USAMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #33299 Janet Loyd, USAMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #32617 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsMary PoppinsMary Poppins, 10 Y-Y, Walter J.M. Blom, United States, 2015
Photo #32616 Carlos van der Veek, the Netherlands