People

Matthew Fowlds, obituary; The Daffodil Journal, March 1973 The Matthew Fowlds Medal, offered at the ADS National Show for the Best NAMED standard cyclamineus hybrid in the show, was named in his honor.

Kitty Frank, 1991 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, 1991

Richard Frank, 1999 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1999

Barbara Fry, England, 1981 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1981

G’s

Frank Galsworthy (1883 – 1959)

Frank Galyon, 2004 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2004

Frank Galyon, obituary; Malcolm Bradbury; RHS Daffodils, Snowdrops and Tulips 2007-2008

“Gibbs Gardens creator honored by National Garden Clubs,” Region, northwestgeorgianews.com, May 7, 2019

Bill Gould, hybridizing records 1966 to 1971, and garden notes; Handwritten, so not searchable.

ADS 2018 Silver Medal awarded to Glenna Graves

Alec Gray, 1966 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1966

Alec Gray, To Scilly, 1979, a book of poems

“Acres of Hope” – Jill Griesse, by Teresa Woodard, Ohiomagazine.com, April 2013

Mary Lou Gripshover, 1984 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1984

Mary Lou Gripshover, “Peter Barr Memorial Trophy;” Brian S. Duncan; RHS Daffodils 1993-4

Mary Lou Gripshover, “Peter Barr Memorial Cup 1993,” Bloem Bollen Cultuur, May 27, 1993

Mary Lou Gripshover, 1999 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1999

“Daffodils, regional proven performers,” Mary Lou Gripshover, American Gardener, March/April 2011

Mary Lou Gripshover; “Dedicated to Daffodils,” by Beth Burwinkel, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2004

ADS 2015 President’s Medal Awarded to Mary Lou Gripshover

H’s

Max Hamilton; “The Peter Barr Memorial Cup 2003: Awarded to Max Hamilton;” Brian Duncan; RHS Daffodils with Snowdrops and Tulips 2003-2004

ADS 2022 Gold Medal Awarded to Joe Hamm

Joe Hamm’s Washington County garden featured by Doug Oster, on Local CBS, April 27, 2018

“Daffodil Hortus in Washington County is Joseph Hamm’s paradise,” by Doug Oster, Everybody Gardens, April 24. 2018

“Joe Hamm’s Washington County garden is a daffodil delight,” by Susan Banks, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 15, 2016

Joe Hamm, “Only official daffodil garden in W.Pa. open during April,” by Christi Campbell, Observer-Reporter.com, April 18, 2014

Louise Hardison, 1981 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1981

Sir Frank Harrison, Northern Ireland, 1993 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1993

Sir Frank Harrison, “The Peter Barr Memorial Cup Awarded to Sir Frank Harrison MBE, QC, DL;” Brian Duncan; RHS Daffodils and Tulips 1998-9

Sir Frank Harrison, obituary; Malcolm Bradbury; RHS Daffodils with Snowdrops and Tulips 2003-2004

Elise Havens, 1997 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1997

Elise Havens, “The Peter Barr Memorial Cup 2002 Awarded to Mrs. Elise Havens;” Brian Duncan; RHS Daffodils with Snowdrops and Tulips 2002-2003

Elise Havens radio interview on Avant Gardener, (begins at about the 8:50 mark)

A.H. Haworth, obituary August 24, 1833

Brent Heath, 2003 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2003

Charles Heath – “Gold Was Where He Found It”, Reader’s Digest, March 1956

“George W. Heath of Gloucester, VA;” Franklin D. Seney; The Daffodil Journal, September 1965

Phyllis Hess, 2008 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2008

ADS 2022 Silver Medal Awarded to Janet Hickman

“In this Lynchburg garden, a love of daffodils blooms,” [about Janet Hickman] by Carrie Dungan, newsadvance.com, April 8, 2019

John Hollever, Spring wins for daffodil grower, by Karoline Tuckley, The Dominion Post, New Zealand, October 15, 2015

John Horsfield – a Lancashire handloom weaver who hybridized ‘Horsfieldii’

Gilman Hu – Bulb Carver on mission to revive Chinese tradition, by Zenaida Serrano Espanol, honoluluadvertiser.com, January 2003

John Hunter, “Breeder sends bulbs back to Brodie Castle;” New Zealand Mail, Sept 2007

John Hunter, New Zealand, 2011 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2011

John Hunter, “A golden moment,” by Anna Pearson, Nelson Mail, Stuff.co.nz, September 15, 2011, v2

“Peter Barr Memorial Cup 2012 Awarded to John Hunter;” Brian Duncan, RHS Daffodils, Snowdrops and Tulips 2012

John Hunter Receives Peter Barr Cup, April 2012, NDSNZ Website

John Hunter, Daffodil Breeder marks 70 years of blooms, by Jess Pullar, NelsonMail September 12, 2015

“John Hunter, 70 years of daffodil hybridising,” by Trevor Rollinson, New Zealand Daffodil Annual 2018

“Daffodils more than a Harbinger of Spring, John and Marie Hunter”, by Carly Gooch, NelsonMail, September 12, 2018

I’s

No entries

J’s

“David Jackson has won both top US and UK Awards” The Weekly Times Farm Magazine, April 10, 2014

David Jackson, Tasmania, Australia, 1994 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1994

David Jackson, “Peter Barr Memorial Trophy;” Brian S. Duncan; RHS Daffodils and Tulips, 1996-7

K’s

Patrick Kiernan; “Longford bids a fond farewell to a ‘farmer, daffodil breeder, and friend,'” by Aisling Kiernan, Longford Leader, September 17, 2018

Sally Kington, Peter Barr Memorial Cup 2000 [2001]Awarded to Sally Kington; John W. Blanchard; RHS Daffodils and Tulips 2001-2002

Sally Kington, England, 2002 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2002

ADS 2021 Silver Medal recipient, Sara Kinne

Interview with Madeline Kirby, “Daffodils, Smiles of Spring,” by Suzanne Ashmun, The Oregonian, April 22, 1976

Wells Knierim, 1970 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1970

Harold Koopowitz, 2012 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2012

Keith Kridler, 2011 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2011

L’s

John R. Larus, 1973 ADS Silver medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1973

John Lea’s Hybridizing Records, 1948 – 1984

“Edward Leeds and his daffodils”, Parks & Gardens UK, August 7, 2011

Bill Lee, 2009 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2009

George Lee’s Notebooks, 1938 – 1940

George Lee presents the Patricia Reynolds Perpetual Trophy to Bill Roesé at the Southern California Daffodil Show in 1960, RHS Daffodil and Tulip Yearbook, 1961

George Lee, 1964 ADS Silver Medal recipient, Board of Directors’ Minutes, April 1964

George Lee, obituary, The Daffodil Journal, March 1978

“Mrs. Helen Lee’s Daffodil Garden”

“Peter Barr Memorial Cup 2005 Awarded to Willem (Wim) Lemmers;” Malcolm Bradbury, RHS Daffodils with Snowdrops and Tulips 2005-2006

Naomi Liggett, 1995 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1995

Mrs. Goethe Link, 1963 ADS Silver Medal recipient; The Daffodil Bulletin, May 1963

Helen Link, 1995 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1995

Helen Link’s Hybridizing Records, 1963 – 1996

Helen Link’s Daffodils – A Living Legacy, Crown Hill

Link Gardens near Moorseville, by Nancy Kriplen, New York Times, March 1, 1981

John Lipscomb Obituary, October 14 2014

M’s

Peggy Macneale, 1998 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1998

Peggy Macneale Honored with first SWODS Distinguished Service Award, October 1994

Becky Fox Matthews video interview on “A Walk with Marilee” on Access Nashville, hosted on YouTube.com

Becky Fox Matthews, 2021 ADS Silver Medal recipient

Loyce McKenzie, 1992 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1992

Loyce Cain McKenzie, The Northside Sun, obituary, 11/23/2020

Denise & Neil McQuarrie; Nelson Mail, Alastair Paulin, October, 2012

Howard J. Merrill, Let’s Plant Daffodils, 1996

Faith and Graeme Miller, Our World Champion Daffodil, Te Awamutu Courier, 2004

Graeme and Faith Miller daughters, “A Family Affair, by Alison Kay, NZ Gardener, March 1977

“Grant Mitsch Honored with MGCA Award;” Daffodil Journal, December 1964

Grant E. Mitsch, 1965 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1965

“Grant E. Mitsch–King of American Daffodil Hybridists;” Murray Evans; Daffodil Journal, June 1965

“Grant Mitsch Honored by the Garden Club of America;” The Daffodil Journal, September 1968

“Grant Mitsch – Canby Grower has Introduced over 300 New Daffodil Varieties;” Oregon Farmer-Stockman, April 1978

“The Grant and Amy Mitsch Award;” Jean and Tom Throckmorton; The Daffodil Journal, June 1979

“Grant Mitsch, 1988 Herbert Medalist;” Herbertia, International Journal of the American Plant Life Society, Vol. 44, No. 2, 1988

Grant Mitsch, obituary; Eddie Jarman,; RHS Daffodils 1990-91

Jane Moore, 1988 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1988

Nancy Mott, 2006 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2006

B. Y. Morrison, 1960 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Bulletin, May 1960 (See the following article to learn about his achievements.)

“Benjamin Yeo Morrison;” John C. Wister; RHS, The Daffodil and Tulip Yearbook 1963 (On being the recipient of the Peter Barr Memorial Cup)

Benjamin Y. Morrison, photo, The National Horticultural Magazine, Journal of the American Horticultural Society, July 1953

Benjamin Yoe Morrison, obituary; The Daffodil Journal, March 1966

Dianne Mrak interview by Clippings, Susan Banks, April 8, 2000

Dianne Mrak, 2023 ADS Silver Medal recipient

N’s

Sally Nash, ADS 2014 Silver Medal recipient

“Peter Barr Memorial Cup 2006 Awarded to Reg Nicholl;” Jan Dalton, RHS Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook 2006-2007

Noton, W.A., “Mr. Noton wins five daffodil trophies,” c.1965, UK

“Interview with a Daffodil Grower,” [FrankNyikos] by Chris Eirschele, chriseirschele.com, August 20, 2019

O’s

No entries

P’s

William G. Pannill, 1976 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1976

William G. Pannill, 1984 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1984

William G. Pannill, “Crazy Over Daffodils,” The Palm Beach Post, May 30, 1999

William G. Pannill, “The Peter Barr Memorial Cup 2000;” Brian Duncan; RHS Daffodils and Tulips 2000-2001

Daffy Bill’s Daffodils, William G. Pannill, 2014

William G. Pannill, Daffy Bill’s Daffodil video

William G. Pannill, obituary, RHS Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook 2014

John Pearson; “The Peter Barr Memorial Cup 2007: Awarded to John Pearson;” Malcolm Bradbury; RHS Daffodils, Snowdrops and Tulips 2007-2008

John Pearson, England, 2009 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2009

Jan Pennings, “Love of bulbs spans the world” featuring Jan Pennings, The Nelson Mail, September 22, 2009

Jan Pennings, ADS 2014 Gold Medal recipient

ADS 2018 Gold Medal awarded to Graham Phillips

Phil Philips, New Zealand, 1983 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1983

Clive Postles, England, 1998 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1998

“The Edwin C. Powell Story;” Freeman A. Weiss; The Daffodil Journal, December 1965

Q’s

First ADS convention, Carey Quinn, Mr. C.R. Wootton, Guy Wilson, RHS Yearbook 1956

Judge Carey Quinn, 1962 ADS Gold Medal recipient; The Daffodil Bulletin, May 1962

Memorial-Quinn, Carey E. (Judge), The Bar Association of Montgomery County, Maryland, October 6, 1969

R’s

Crawford Ernest Radcliff Obituary “Famous Breeder of Daffodils”, Digitised newspapers and more, March 16, 1949

Jamie and Kay Radcliff interview at Launceston Daffodil Show on YouTube video by Richard Perrigon, 2014

Peter Ramsay, New Zealand, 2008 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2008

“Peter Barr Memorial Cup of 2013 Awarded to Peter Ramsay;” Malcolm Bradbury, RHS Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook 2013

“International renown daffodil breeder [Peter Ramsay] dies just before a month dedicated to the flower,” Charles Riddle, Stuff.co.nz, August 3, 2019

Kate Reade, “Peter Barr Memorial Trophy;” RHS Daffodils 1990-91

Kate Reade, Northern Ireland, 1992 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1992

John Reed, 2010 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2010

“Peter Barr Memorial Cup 2019 Awarded to Dr. John Reed;” Brian S. Duncan, RHS Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook 2019

John Reed obituary, 11/22/2020, Preeminent daffodil hybridizer and good friend

Father Bede Reynolds Dies, Los Angeles Times, 1989; [daffodil grower in Southern California]

Mrs. J. Lionel (Helen) Richardson, Ireland, 1977 ADS Gold medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1977

Eve Robertson, 1989 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1989

Eve Robertson, obituary; Loyce McKenzie; RHS Daffodils with Snowdrops and Tulips 2003-2004

George Lee presents the Patricia Reynolds Perpetual Trophy to Bill Roesé at the Southern California Daffodil Show in 1960,RHS Daffodil and Tulip Yearbook, 1961

William Roesé, 1987 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1987

William Roesé, obituary; Brian Duncan, RHS Daffodils and Tulips 2001-2002

Jack S. Romine, obituary, 1992

S’s

Ron Scamp, England, 2006 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2006

Ron Scamp, “Ron Scamp is the Champ”, Falworth Packet, April 1, 2013

“Peter Barr Memorial Cup 2014 Awarded to Ronald Scamp;” Malcolm Bradbury, RHS Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook 2014

How Cornish daffodils have won the Oscars of the flower world – Ron Scamp, The Herald, March 6, 2016

“14 RHS golds and still going strong: the father-and-son doyens of daffodils on how they became ‘Master Growers’,” [Ron Scamp and Son] by Naomi Slade The Telegraph March 24, 2019

“Growing a love of daffodils: Becky Payne meets ‘Godfather of Daffodils’, Ron Scamp,” by Becky Payne, Smallholder, June 16, 2019

ADS 2017 Silver Medal Awarded to Lynn Slackman

ADS 2021 Presidents Medal Awarded to Lynn Slackman

Ted Snazelle, 1997 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1997

Robert Spotts, 2007 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2007

Bob Spotts and his green daffodils 2010

ADS 2015 Gold Medal awarded to Robert Spotts

Tom Stettner, 2012 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2012

Robert Sydenham; Edgbastonia, courtesy The Daffodil Society (UK)

T’s

Nancy Tackett and Ben Blake, 2007 ADS Gold Medal recipients, The Daffodil Journal, June 2007

Nancy Tackett and Ben Blake; “Awards to People” (Peter Barr Memorial Cup); Malcolm Bradbury; RHS Daffodils, Snowdrops and Tulips 2008-2009

“Daffodils trumpet arrival of spring,” by Marcia Walker, Enjoy!, March 2008, interview of Nancy Tackett.

“Seeking Daffodils,” interview of Ben Blake and Nancy Tackett by Suzanne Daub, Yesterday’s Island, Today’s Nantucket, April 26, 2012

American Daffodil Society 2016 Silver Medal Awarded to Nancy Tackett and Ben Blake

“Daffodil Society President addresses Kiwanis Club,” by John Stevens, Martinez News Gazette, March 6, 2019

George Tarry, England, 2001 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 2001

“Let George Do It: The Story of the ADS Data Bank;” Tom D. Throckmorton; Daffodil Journal, September 1964

Tom D. Throckmorton, 1977 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1977

Dr. Tom Throckmorton – Surgeon is Daffodil Authority; Iowa Methodist Medical Center News, Summer 1977

Tom D. Throckmorton, 1980 ADS Gold Medal recipient; The Daffodil Journal, June 1980

Dr. Tom D. Throckmorton, obituary; Mary Lou Gripshover; RHS Daffodils and Tulips 2000-2001

William O. Ticknor, 1985 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1985

Lawrence Trevanion, “Exploring Bulbocodiums,” a PowerPoint program

Helen Trueblood, 1996 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1996

Helen Trueblood obituary, The Daffodil Journal, September 2017

Harry Tuggle, 1968 ADS Silver Medal recipient; The Daffodil Journal, June 1968 The Tuggle Award, offered in Regional and National Shows, is named in his honor.

Derrick Turbitt, of Northern Ireland, BBC program: Two Gardeners’ World, October 2014

U’s

No entries.

V’s

“One of Puyallup’s last daffodil farmers hanging up the hoe,” Neil van Lierop, by Elisa Jaffe, KomoNews.com, February 2013

“First Gold Medal of the ADS Awarded to Prof. Dr. E. van Slogteren, of the Netherlands,” 1959; ADS 1960 Yearbook

Lois van Wie – “Flowering Passion;” Scott Brooks, Knoxville News Sentinel, March undated

W’s

“Peter Barr Memorial Cup 2016 Awarded to Johnny Walkers;” John Gibson, RHS Daffodil, Snowdrop and Tulip Yearbook 2016

Washington (DC) Daffodil Society Founders

Roberta C. Watrous Hybridizing Records

Narcissus Notes, “Waiting for the First Flower,” Roberta Watrous, The National Horticultural Magazine, Journal of The American Horticultural Society, April 1948

Mrs. George D. Watrous, Jr., 1972 ADS Silver Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1972

Roberta C. Watrous, 1987 ADS Gold Medal recipient, The Daffodil Journal, June 1987

Roberta C. Watrous, obituary; Delia Bankhead; RHS Daffodils and Tulips 2001-2002

ADS 2017 Gold Medal Awarded to Nial Watson

Nial Watson, Ringhaddy, Northern Ireland video interview, BBC , Two Gardener’s World, 2013

ADS Gold Medal for 2019 awarded to William (Bill the Bulb Baron) Welch

2019 ADS Gold Medal nomination letter for William (Bill the Bulb Baron) Welch, Kirby Fong

“We like it wild, Daffodil Hill,” by Grace Bonny, Design Sponge, about Bill the Bulb Baron Welch

James S. Wells, “The Peter Barr Memorial Cup Awarded to James S. Wells;” Brian Duncan; RHS Daffodils and Tulips 1999-2000

James S. Wells, obituary; John Blanchard; RHS Daffodils and Tulips 2000-2001

Mrs. Lawrence Wharton, 1962 ADS Silver Medal recipient; The Daffodil Bulletin, May 1962

Willis Wheeler, 1965 ADS Silver Medal recipient; The Daffodil Journal, June, 1965

“Hills of gold daffodils”, a link to SFGate.com, by Victor Yool featuring Jacquie Williams-Courtwright and Gene Bauer, February 2003

“Daffodil Breeding At Caerhays,” by Charles Williams; from the Newsletter of the Caerhays Estate, March 2018; first published in The Journal of the Cornwall Garden Society No. 58, February 2015

P.D. Williams, “Cornwall’s Daffodil King;” by Jean Carr, Cornwall Today, March 2018

Alexander Wilson, by John Hunter

“Guy L. Wilson, Herbert Medalist;” Herbertia, Vol. 13, 1946

First ADS convention, Carey Quinn, Mr. C.R. Wootton, Guy Wilson, RHS Yearbook 1956

Guy Wilson obituary as published in The Garden, March 1991

The Guy Wilson Garden, The New University of Ulster, March 1974

Guy L. Wilson Daffodil Garden, Co. Londonderry, 2005

Nancy Wilson, Fortuna Garden Club Daffodil Show video on DaffTube.org, interviewer, Nancy Tackett, March 2016

Dr. John C. Wister, 1961 ADS Gold Medal recipient; The Daffodil Bulletin, May 1961

2012 World Daffodil Tour Participants, Holland, Photo

X’s

No entries

Y’s

No entries

Z’s

“The History of G. Zandbergen-Terwegen, Sassenheim, Holland;” Matthew Zandbergen; The Daffodil Journal, March 1966

Matthew Zandbergen, Holland, 1976 ADS Gold Medal recipient; The Daffodil Journal, June 1976

“Remembering Matthew;” obituary, Jane Birchfield, The Daffodil Journal, December 1990

Save

People

Below are articles about researchers, hybridizers, and enthusiasts who are, or have been, very involved with daffodils. These PDFs or webpage links are presented in alphabetical order by the individual’s last name.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Search

American Daffodil Society

ADS Links

Recent Posts