Spring has officially sprung, on March 20th to be exact, and with it come the bright faces of flowers. I am always on the lookout for blooms in the late days of winter, but for me the daffodils mark the true turn of the season. This photo of the week, taken in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 1935, makes the flowers look like they are glowing.
If you think the flowers are arriving sooner than in the past, our Brooklyn Newsstand confirms that fact. Flower alerts during most of the 30s and 40s have the daffodils blooming on Boulder Hill sometime in April.
True to the detail of a local paper, this 1932 article in Brooklyn Citizen gets very specific about the different varieties to be seen, as well as other plants on view. In 1956 the Brooklyn Record reports the daffodils coming unusually late, in the first week of May. By then their iconic location had been dubbed Daffodil Hill.
Don’t miss these beauties – now, in March, is the time to see them in living color on Daffodil Hill and other parts of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Interested in seeing more photos from CBH’s collections? Visit our online image gallery, which includes a selection of our images, or the digital collections portal at Brooklyn Public Library. We look forward to inviting you to CBH in the future to research in our entire collection of images, archives, maps, and special collections. In the meantime, please visit our resources page to search our collections. Questions? Our reference staff is available to help with your research! You can reach us at cbhreference@bklynlibrary.org.
This blog post reflects the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Brooklyn Public Library.
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