Description
‘Golden Harvest’
1Y-Y
[Yellow Trumpet 1a]
(Warnaar & Co., pre-1920; ‘Golden Spur’ × ‘King Alfred’)
Often mis-sold, but ours is the true plant. True ‘Golden Harvest’ is scarce because the bulb is susceptible to basal rot. This glorious example of a bright gold trumpet daffodil is reason alone to be thankful for stony, well-drained soil derived from raised beach, which dulls the spade and jars the wrist. The smooth, outer primrose-yellow perianth segments are truly ovate, the broadest point towards the base, with a long arc to the blunt-acute apex. The smaller inner segments are less shapely, tending to be more ribby, with uneven margins, and prone to a twist near the more acute tip. This trumpet daffodil and true ‘King Alfred’ are in a class of their own: the margins recurving to a flat brim perpendicular to the rest of the trumpet. ‘Golden Harvest’’s broader rim is more flamboyant, being more deeply notched and more plentifully, more jaggedly dentate, but somehow lacking ‘King Alfred’’s intriguing shadows within the trumpet and its sheer nobility of carriage. Early/mid-season, of average height.
