16 Engleheart introductions
1 Narcissus ‘Cassandra’ A pheasant’s eye type with white perianth (the petals or outer part of the flowerhead) and a cup-shaped corona (the trumpet-shaped inner part) with a glowing orange and red margin and green eye at the base. Richly fragranced. Mid to late season. 30-65cm.
2 Narcissus ‘Resolute’ A Nelsonii Group daffodil with outer perianth opening primrose yellow, slightly reflexed with a corona in a soft rich lemon shading, darkening to apricot at the rim. Introduced before 1903. Mid to late season. It’s a dwarf daffodil that grows to less than 30cm.
3 Narcissus ‘Sarchedon’ A large-flowered Poeticus type with an extremely broad-spreading outer perianth and a tightly frilled and diskshaped corona. Named after an ancient King of Assyria. Pre 1910. Late season and standard size 30-65cm.
4 Narcissus ‘Evangeline’ Has a large flower with a wide, pure-white perianth and bowl-shaped, ribbed, clear-yellow corona that is lightly frilled. Pre-1908. Mid season, Tall – its height can be greater than 65cm.
5 Narcissus ‘Sea Green’ Has single, white flowers where the corona is detailed with bright green at the throat with a crimson ribbon to the edge. Late season, Standard size 30-65cm.
6 Narcissus ‘Horace’ Has a corona that opens a glowing saffron-orange with a dull moss-green centre, but with age fades to muted colours. Pre-1894. Mid season, Tall, grows greater than 65cm.
7 Narcissus ‘Seagull’ Has clean white perianth segments and a shallow, pleated, yellow corona with a well-defined orange rim that fades with age. Early to mid season, Standard size, grows 30-65cm.
8 Narcissus ‘Sonata’ A typical pheasant’s eye type of daffodil with a sulphur-yellow corona that has a crimson rim and a green heart. It has pure white, overlapping perianth and a good scent. Raised in 1910. Mid to late season, Standard size 30-65cm.
9 Narcissus ‘Will Scarlett’ The bulb that dazzled the world when it was first introduced in 1898. Its charming, slightly unruly white petals surround a large, bowl-shaped corona that is a fiery scarletorange.
Mid to late season. Tall, 65cm.
10 Narcissus ‘Magnificence’ A bright, pure-yellow daffodil. Its slightly nodding, solitary flower has a long, serrated, wavy trumpet. Pre-1914.
Very early, Standard size, grows 30-65cm.
11 Narcissus ‘Bath’s Flame’ Perhaps the most widely available of the Engleheart introductions, it has large, floppy flowers with spreading perianth that fade to a straw yellow. It has a tightly ruffled corona with a broad band of reddish orange. Pre. 1910. Early to mid season.
Standard size, 30-65cm.
12 Narcissus ‘White Lady’ This sweetly scented cultivar was a very popular cut flower in the years before the Second World War. It has tall stems with soft white perianth around a small yellow cup with a delicate scent. Pre 1898. Mid season.
Standard size 30-65cm.
13 Narcissus ‘Beersheba’ A delicate daffodil with nodding snow-white flowers with white, pointed perianth. The slender trumpet, which expands into a flange at its mouth, opens pale lemon and then fades to white. The first pure-white trumpet and became very popular after its introduction in 1923.
Early to mid season. Standard size, 30-65cm.
14 Narcissus ‘Argent’ The plantsman and garden writer EA Bowles called this the very best of the double daffodils. An informal double with two or more whorls of slender, milk-white perianth combined with short, egg yolk-coloured ones and a partial cup. Pre 1902.
Mid to late season. Standard size 30-65cm.
15 Narcissus ‘Firebrand’ Distinctive daffodil with a brilliant cup-shaped, orange corona with white wavy, separated perianth, like its parent Narcissus poeticus subsp. radiiflorus. Raised 1897.
Mid season. Standard size 30-65cm.
16 Narcissus ‘Mitylene’ Has a wide, milk-white perianth that overlap a little with wavy margins. Its bowl-shaped corona is narrowly ribbed in primrose yellow. pre-1923. Mid season. Tall, grows greater than 65cm.
Most narcissi have a hardiness rating of RHS H6, USDA 4a-8b.