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April 08, 2005
The Daffodil Project
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All over the city--along highways and busy streets, in parks and community gardens--yellow daffodils are beginning to bloom. Thanks to the Daffodil Project, which was begun in 2001 to commemorate September 11, over 2,500,000 bulbs have been planted by volunteers and the Parks Department, and April is when they put on their show. Along with their cheerful color, which just shouts spring, the great thing about daffodils is that they are very reliable and they naturalize and multiply each year. Clumps of bulbs are getting bigger, and this year there seem to be yellow flowers everywhere, which is just what the Parks Department and New Yorkers for Parks hoped would happen when they accepted the first donation from a generous Dutch bulb grower, Hans Van Waardenburg of B&K Flowerbulbs.
Link: NYC Parks and New Yorkers for Parks
Posted by gardenguidenyc at April 8, 2005 11:39 AM