Data specific to Daffodils (Edit)
Division: Division 4 - Double
Color: Perianth (Petals): White
Color: Corona (Cups): White
Description: Opens pure white, becomes ivory white. Seed fertile. Many petaloides in the center.
Bloom season: EM - Early to Mid Spring
Height classification: Standard (12.8" to 26.6")
Special Classes: ADS Historics
Hybridizer: G.A. Uit den Boogaard
Year of registration: Yes. Date of first flowering noted as pre 1937.
Country of Origin: the Netherlands
Origin of name: White as snow?
Awards: Award of Merit
First Class Certificate
Links: DaffSeek - Daffodil Database
RHS - Daffodil Register

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 14 to 16"
Leaves: Spring ephemeral
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Spring
Late spring or early summer
Inflorescence Height: 12 to 16 inches
Underground structures: Bulb
Uses: Provides winter interest
Erosion control
Groundcover
Cut Flower
Will Naturalize
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Gophers/Voles
Rabbit Resistant
Squirrels
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Offsets
Bulbs
Pollinators: Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs excellent drainage in pots
Miscellaneous: Goes Dormant
Awards and Recognitions: Other: FCC in 1944, AM in 1938

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Common names
  • Double Daffodil
  • Daffodil
Also sold as:
  • Shirley Temple

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Date: 2016-04-04

Date: 2016-04-05
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Comments:
  • Posted by jmorth (central Illinois) on Jun 3, 2013 10:19 AM concerning plant:
    Description from ‘The Royal Horticultural Society Horticultural Database’, available at www.rhs.org.uk -
    'Perianth segments broadly ovate in outline, blunt or truncate at apex, fairly prominently mucronate, pure white, spreading or a little inflexed, concave or with margins incurling, overlapping half; the inner segments with margins wavy and sometimes nicked; corona segments one-third as long as the perianth segments, opening pure white, becoming ivory white, inflexed and closely overlapping at first, more spreading later, and more loosely arranged. Scented'

    aka `Shirley Temple'.
    Multiple award winner as 'Snowball' and as 'Shirley Temple'. (see awards above).

    The International Daffodil Register & Classified List at www.rhs.org.uk lists two entries for cultivar 'Snowball'; the other one is also a registered division 4 double white daffodil w/ first flowering noted as pre 1907 and bred by W. Welchman of England.

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