HDDS First Community Outreach Project Breaks Ground at Discovery Museum
Members of the High Desert Daffodil Society (HDDS), an affiliate of the American Daffodil Society (ADS), broke ground Sunday, Feb 15 for the beginning of a pocket-planting of Daffodils as a walking Tour of 13 Divisions with identifying labels for education outreach at the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum. It is a joint effort with the help of the Discovery Museum and the May Arboretum Society. As part of our HDDS mission and goals to actively promote increased public awareness and appreciation of the daffodil, this project contributes to the community by adding daffodils in a visual educational manner to a youth-focused nonprofit. We feel the spring attraction of the warm daffodil colors highlighting the different blossom types of the thirteen divisions of daffodils would be a good attraction to both passersby and Discovery Museum visitors.
Although considered a late planting, the Reno winter has been very mild this year and the bulbs appear to be eager to sprout. More plantings will be done at the proper daffodil planting time next fall to fill out the divisions in variety and form. The species planted so far are Arkle (1 Y-Y), Bravoure (1 W-Y), Ferris Wheel (2 Y-O), Happy Smiles (2 W-YYO), Better Still (2 YYW-P), Jamestown (3 W-GYY), Cheerfulness (4 W-Y), Tête Bouclé (4 Y-Y), Congress (11a Y-O), Smiling Twin (11a W-Y), and Dancing Moonlight (11b Y-Y). The numbers and letters in parenthesis are the official designations of the classification division and color code of the Royal Horticulture Society in England that the ADS also follows.
Patrick Turner (Chief Advancement Officer of The Discovery Museum) plants a daffodil bulb with the guidance of HDDS member Patricia.
HDDS members at the start of the planting.
Planting daffodils.