Sarah Backhouse, born Sarah Dodgson (1857 to 1921), was an English plant breeder and horticulturist. She married Robert Ormston Backhouse, a member of the Backhouse banking family of amateur horticulturists, who began a commercial daffodil business, and she worked on the hybridization of flowering plants including Narcissus, Colchicum, hyacinths, lilies and cyclamen. She created the first pink-cupped daffodil and was the first woman to receive the Royal Horticultural Society's Peter Barr Cup. A lily hybrid was named Mrs R. O. Backhouse in her honour, and in 2025 the Society led a public search across the United Kingdom for bulbs of the variety of that name flowering in private gardens.
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was an English plant breeder and horticulturist
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Sarah Backhouse née Dodgson (October 1857-30 January 1921)
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was an English plant breeder and horticulturist
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was an English plant breeder and horticulturist
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Sarah worked on the hybridization of a number of flowering plants including Narcissus, Colchicum, Hyacinths, Lilium, and Cyclamen
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Sarah worked on the hybridization of a number of flowering plants including Narcissus, Colchicum, Hyacinths, Lilium, and Cyclamen
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She was the first ever female recipient of the Royal Horticultural Society's prestigious Peter Barr Cup, and the creator of the first pink-cupped daffodil.
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