California Travel Tips
California’s Daffodil Daydreams
Published on: February 19, 2018
If yellow’s your thing, you may be a candidate for Daffodil Daydreams. It happens every year near Spring. Daffodils are weather dependent, which makes viewing them a wait-and-see game in places such as Volcano’s Daffodil Hill. The owners of the farm where up to a million daffodils have grown recently posted an update on Feb.13, 2018 and said this:
“Daffodil Hill is at 3000 ft elevation and we are not quite ready for visitors. If the weather continues we could possibly open earlier than usual.” Updates: facebook.com/DaffodilHill
At Filoli Gardens in Woodside the show goes on — and even when the daffodils are less abundant than years past, the immaculate gardens and fabulous estate are well worth the trip to look-see.
Daffodil Festivals, Events
- WOODSIDE: Filoli’s Daffodil Daydreams Feb.24-25, 2018
- LIVERMORE: Pacific Regional Daffodil Show March 3-4
- JULIAN: Daffodil Show March 10-11
- MURPHYS: Ironstone Vineyard’s Motherlode Daffodil Show March 10-11
- FORTUNA: Daffodils by the River March 24-25
About Daffodils
- Long celebrated as symbol of spring, hope
- Daffodil is a perennial plant of genus Narcissus
- Has six petal-like tepals surmounted by a trumpet-shaped corona
- Usually yellow or white, but also comes in orange or pink varieties
- Underground storage bulb lies dormant to emerge the following season after the leaves and flower stem have died
- Optimum soil is neutral to slightly acid pH 6.5-7.0
- Netherlands is leading source of narcissus flower bulbs worldwide
- American Cancer Society national Daffodil Day campaign lasted through 2013. Local chapters still host events.
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