Boston Spring 4/5/10

Spring is coming to Boston like a landslide! Flowers that usually are due on Patriots Day - April 19 - are opening now, on April 05, two weeks early. The daffodil fields in North Point and Paul Revere Parks are brilliant with white, yellow, and green. Back Bay saucer magnolia are within a couple of days of being peak. And, since the weather forecast is sunny and very warm, the cherries on the esplanade will be out next week. With every generality, there are exceptions. This cherry in the Public Garden is already as full as it gets. Spring is here, or coming in fast.

Daffodil Festivals

A Daffodil bouquet for you

Daffodils - Images by Susan Cole Kelly

After a long brown mud season, New England bursts into color with a burst of daffodil festivals. It's time for eye-candy! Here's a list of upcoming events and places where you can view and photograph thousands of daffodils

Connecticut

• Wadsworth Mansion, near Middletown, CT Daffodil Day is April 18, call (860) 347-1064 to confirm
  

• Litchfield (Laurel Ridge Foundation daffodil fields)

10-acre field of daffodils with stone walls & pond. Open to the public during daffodil season only, in late April.

• Meriden Daffodil Festival - April 24-25, Hubbard Park, Meriden CT
  

A real festival with food, games, carnival rides & treats, surrounded by many acres of daffodils blooming in a woodland setting.

Maine

• Laurel Hill Cemetery in Saco, ME is full of daffodils. It is one of the original turn-of-the-century garden cemeteries.

Massachusetts

• Brewster in Bloom (Cape Cod) - April 30-May 2 in Brewster, MA

Includes a run, parade, kids events, etc

• MA - Nantucket Daffodil Festival - April 23-25, Nantucket town

Antique cars, dog dress-up (in daffodils), hat decorating contest, picnic, pageant...

• Spohr Gardens Daffodil Days - Apr 25 and May 2 in Falmouth, MA

Activities for kids and thousands of blossoms

• Paul Revere Park in Charlestown and North Point Park in Cambridge -
  

These two parks flank the Leonard Zakim (Bunker Hill) Bridge and have carpets of blossoms in late April.

New Hampshire

• Daffodil Days - May 1, Antrim, NH

Breakfast, fishing derby, 8,000 bulbs in bloom

Rhode Island

• Blithewold Daffodil Days - Apr 10 to May 2 in Bristol, RI

Thousands of blossoms surround the Blithewold Mansion. Period fashion, teas, activities

Visit daffodilfestivals.com for a Daffodil Blog with lovely pictures around the world.  Some of the information here came from them!