2021 William G. Pannill Award announced at the ADS Annual Membership Meeting.
‘Southern Hospitality’ is the recipient of the 2021 William G. Pannill Award! Registered in 2000 ‘Southern Hospitality’ was bred by Richard and Elise Havens from [( Armada x Paricutin ) x Falstaff]. It is a stunning early to mid-season standard size double daffodil with perianth and other petaloid segments in three whorls, very broadly ovate, blunt, and golden yellow in color. The center whorl is strongly inflexed, with margins folded deeply inward; corona segments half the length of the petaloid segments and interspersed among them at center, tightly ribbed, orange-red, and frilled.
The name ‘Southern Hospitality’ came about as a result of Frank Gaylon looking at blooms at the Mitsch/Havens fields. He returned from the fields talking about a very nice double daffodil that would probably grow very well in the Southern region. And Frank was correct because this daffodil grew very well in the South. Hence the name Southern Hospitality. See past outstanding exhibition daffodils that have been awarded the William G. Pannill Award on The Pannill Award of The American Daffodil Society page of our website.