Rathowen Daffodils
Rathowen DaffodilsBrian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland
Year of first flowering: 1965
Helen Richardson seedling (Falaise x Debutante) x Polonaise
Pink Pageant
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1956
Rose of Tralee x Irish Rose
Passionale
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1974
Daybreak x Merry Widow
Polonaise
Fl. 105 mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments in three whorls successively slightly shorter, very broad, somewhat truncate, only very slightly mucronate, very deeply overlapping; the outer whorl reflexed, plane, with margins slightly incurled; the second whorl more nearly spreading, with margins incurved, sometimes loosely folded along midrib; the center whorl inflexed, with margins tightly infolded, sometimes twisted; corona segments half the length of the petaloid segments, opposite and interspersed among them, pink.
Part of Brian Duncan’s “Hotel Series” of white and pink double daffodils. Named for the hotel in New York City, New York which is over a century old and considered one of the first ‘grand hotels’ in the world.
Waldorf Astoria, 4 W-P, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 1987
Photo #50048 John F. McLennan, New ZealandWaldorf Astoria, 4 W-P, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 1987
Photo #46220 Quality Daffodils, EnglandWaldorf Astoria, 4 W-P, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 1987
Photo #43276 John F. McLennan, New ZealandWaldorf Astoria, 4 W-P, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 1987
Photo #43275 John F. McLennan, New ZealandWaldorf Astoria, 4 W-P, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 1987
Photo #43274 John F. McLennan, New ZealandWaldorf Astoria, 4 W-P, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 1987
Photo #10600 Gordon Coombes, New ZealandWaldorf Astoria, 4 W-P, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 1987
Photo #9917 Noeline McLaren, New ZealandWaldorf Astoria, 4 W-P, Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland, 1987
Photo #3600 Mary Lou Gripshover, USA