The 20th century’s best known pheasant’s-eye, ‘Actaea’ has big, round, sparkling white petals and a small, yellow eye edged with orange-red. Late, fragrant, and dependable, it has won every major bulb award. 9 W-YYR, 16-20”, zones 3-7S/9WC. Last offered in 2002. Widely available elsewhere.

With long, creamy yellow petals like the ears of a velveteen rabbit and a soft orange cup, ‘Bath’s Flame’ is another enduring gift from the remarkable Rev. Engleheart of Bath, father of our lovely ‘Beersheba’, ‘Seagull’, and ‘White Lady’. Try them all? 3 Y-YYO, 16-18 inches, zones 5-7S/9WC, from Holland. Last offered in 2007. We may offer it again periodically, or we could special order it for you.

In daffodil shows across the country, this graceful little shooting star wins more ribbons for Best Historic Daffodil than any other. Its up-swept petals mature from almost-buff to white, while its dainty golden cup is kissed with orange. In the 1930s, garden diva Louise Beebe Wilder praised it as “neat and charming.” 6 W-YYO, 12-14”, z. 5b-8aS/10WC, Holland. Last offered in 2006. Widely available elsewhere.

With a unique look and fabulous scent, ‘Chinita’ is the love child of a pheasant’s eye and a tazetta such as Avalanche. Its flat, ribbed, golden eye is circled with orange, but what really sets it apart are its pale amber-to-cream petals. From the moment it first bloomed for us, we wanted to share it with you! 8Y-YYR, 21-23 inches, zones 6-8aS/10WC, from California. Last offered in 2009. We hope to offer it again soon. For an alert, sign up for our email newsletter.

Any Top Ten list of history’s greatest daffodils would have to include this legendary trumpet. Once the world’s best-known and best-loved, it’s been “commercially extinct” for decades, preserved by just a handful of collectors – and we’re thrilled to have enough to offer it. With a deep gold trumpet and a distinctive wiggle to its softer yellow petals, it’s a daffodil for the ages. Get it while you can! 1 Y-Y, 18-20”, zones 5-8aS/10WC, Holland. Last offered in 2007. We hope to offer it again soon. For an alert, sign up for our email newsletter.

This sweetly fragrant pheasant’s eye was praised by A.M. Kirby in the very first American book on daffodils as “superior in size, shape, form, and color.” An “improved ‘Ornatus’,” it has snow-white petals and a citron-yellow eye rimmed with deep red-orange. 800-year-old Lisse in the center of Holland’s bulb district is home to the famous Keukenhof gardens. 9 W-YYR, 18-20”, zones 4-7S/9WC, from Holland. Last offered in 2005. We may offer it again periodically, or we could special order it for you.

Sublimely fragrant, this tough, free-flowering jonquil “has settled into Southern life,” says Scott Ogden in Garden Bulbs for the South. In 1930, Philadelphia master horticulturist John Wister praised its toughness, saying it “stays in bloom sometimes for two to three weeks in spite of storms or hot weather.” 7 Y-Y, 18-20 inches, early/mid-season blooming, zones 6-8bS/10WC, from Holland. Last offered in 2006. We may offer it again periodically, or we could special order it for you.

Prized since the days of Napoleon, ‘Grand Monarque’ blooms in clusters of small, sweetly fragrant, white and yellow flowers. It’s “magnificent as grown on the Riviera and in Algiers,” E.A. Bowles reported in the early 1900s, and it’s especially favored today in the Mediterranean climates of the West Coast. 8 W-Y, 18-20 inches, zones 7b-9S/11WC, from California. Last offered in 2005. We may offer it again periodically.

Every spring in the quaint old parterre garden at Keukenhof, Holland’s wonderland of bulbs, this charming antique trumpet launches the show. And who was Henry Irving? Visit www.theirvingsociety.org.uk to learn more about the Victorian actor who still has a fan club 100 years after his death. 1 Y-Y, 15-16 inches, zones 4-8aS/10WC, from Holland. Last offered in 2004. We may offer it again periodically, or we could special order it for you.