Description
‘Double Sir Watkin’
4Y-O
[Double]
(sport, introduced R.H. Bath, c.1916)
As with most double daffodils, the fulness of the flower can be highly variable. On our croft, the flower tends to be loosely double; sometimes the cup is intact, and contains not a scrap of petaloid material, but this stock was collected with a muddle of ruckled coronal petaloids. The outer, largest, aureolin ones nestled between two whorls of perianth petaloids which, in the ‘Sir Watkin’ scheme of things, were passable as regular perianth segments of soft primrose-yellow. The handful of perianth petaloids dispersed towards the centre are smaller and less shapely. The coronal petaloids become successively smaller, and more incurled, shading through chrome-yellow to a depth of marigold-orange at the centre.
