Celebrate Daffodils with the 2024 John and Gertrude Wister Award!
The 2024 Wister Award is presented to ‘Bantam’, this intermediate sized daffodil is a standout in the garden. Narcissus ‘Bantam’ is an attractive cultivar that was registered prior to 1950, hybridized by Barr and Sons from England, UK, and is included in the ADS Classics and ADS Intermediates special classes. This late blooming daffodil has roundish, blunt, brilliant greenish yellow perianth segments with a bowl-shaped corona that is smooth or lightly ribbed orange, has a broad yellow zone at the base and sometimes has a darker orange at the rim. See past outstanding garden daffodils that have been awarded the Wister Award on The John and Gertrude Wister Award page of our website.