Perish the thought, daffodils are supposed to be yellow and long may they remain so!! Imagine a red one - oh dear.

Hi, you can get Narcissus, {daffodil's} in yellow, white, sometimes even green, and with red, orange, or pink corona's, so not just yellow, Derek.

It's in the genes. Daffodils only have the genes for yellowish/orange shades, white/cream shades.

Sometimes you get mutations in genes, and a totally different characteristic will appear. This has not occurred in daffodils (yet) and I hope it never does. I would hate to see a blue one !! :(

I agree,I would hate to see any garish colours in Daffodils..and perish the thought,that some daft so and so,comes up with an idea to dye them..like Heathers..which I detest..

There is a pink Daffodil (Narcissus 'Apricot Whirl').

Many thanks to you all for your helpful replies. Guess I need to wait for evolution to catch up!

Thanks again. Ken

So there is Myron, and I wish there wasn't.

I think it's only a matter of time before someone will eventually create or discover a very different daffodil from the yellow colour that we are used to seeing. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is open to debate.

For example, the many varieties of rose that we have and admire in our gardens today probably came from the wild (Dog Rose). After many years of cross pollination, both natural and man-made, this has created many varieties of rose to make our gardens look a bit more special.

Another example of cross-pollination, freaks of nature and the determination of plant breeders is the apple. Would we be happy if the only apples we could buy are crab apples. Maria Smith planted an apple seed in the 1800's and the Granny Smith Apple was born.

A similar important discovery in the same century was that of Mary Ann Brailsford who planted an apple pip which grew into a tree. Matthew Bramley asked if he could take some cuttings and grew some trees from them. The rest is history.

Personally, I think it's very important to create new cultivars of plants and a new variation to the yellow daffodil would be I'm sure a welcome addition to peoples choices. You can always stick with the yellow ones if you prefer them.

Me, well I'm looking forward to creating the the perfect black rose... Then I'll be in the money :o)

It wasn't until a yellow rose was found (in China?), that it was possible to breed yellow, orange and scarlet ones. Until then, all roses were white, pink or crimson

Ah just imagine if one could actually develop a pale blue Snowdrop.

I do believe that a pale blue Snowdrop already exists. I think it's called Russian Snowdrop. Whether this is a true Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis), I'm not sure.

I googled Russian snowdrop and came up with puschkinia scilloides.
There is a very pale blue trollius (posted on one of my Kazakhstan blogs last year)

P. scilloides and Galanthus are not even in the same family, which just goes to prove the point of using the correct Botanical name for plants.

All very true Myron but I haven't changed my mind!
Good luck with your black rose. What would you plant it with so that it showed up? Black tulips never really became very popular. Just call me an old stick in the mud.

I remember reading that the person that comes up with a true black rose will make a lot of money. I would imagine that black roses would be popular in bouquets and flower arrangements.

They probably will. I guess they would look nice in a bouquet with cream ones, but not in the garden.