Filoli Daffodil Daydreams

Woodside, California

February 26 - 28, 2010

Status

February 25, 2010 status: The What's Blooming page on the Filoli website says "Daffodils are blooming throughout the Garden".

Introduction

The Filoli website has dates, times, and details about this three-day celebration of spring. Location: Woodside, California (about 30 miles south of San Francisco). The Filoli website announces that this year, they have planted an additional 50,000 daffodil bulbs throughout the grounds, and have been named an American Daffodil Society Display Garden.

Consult the blooming schedule on the Filoli website to track the daffodil field blooms.

Website

www.filoli.org/special-events-and-exhibits/opening-event.html

Details

You can now sign up at the Filoli website to reserve your place for the 2010 daffodils events. Here is event registration information for the Filoli Daffodil Daydreams 2010 (taken from the Daffodil Dreams web page): "Join us as we celebrate the spectacular flowering of Filoli's Garden through three days of talks, tours, demonstrations and hands-on activities. Admission is FREE for members or with paid admission to Filoli. Space is limited for some of the programs: reservations can be made and are highly recommended. Reserved programs may have space available the day of and drop-ins will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis. For other programs reservations are not needed."

Here is a list of some of the activities (taken from the Filoli website):

Artistic Activites

• Painting and photographing in the Garden


• Crafts for children


• Family activity: Photographic Patterns in the Garden

Talks

• Patterns in Nature


• Dancing with Daffodils (how daffodils are used in beds, pots, and naturalized in the Filoli fields)


• Not Just that Yellow Flower Anymore (includes helpful hints for growing daffodils in the Bay Area)


• Caring for Your Flowering Displays

Demonstrations

• Painting seasonal blooms and branches


• Floral arranging with seasonal blooms


• Flower painting


• Pique assiette (decorating garden stepping stones and other surfaces)


• Botanical painting

Other Activities

• Garden Walk


• Displays In and Around the Garden: A map will guide your exploration of Filoli's amazing daffodil displays in and around the Garden.


• Art Exhibit - Patterns and Abstractions of Nature Fine Art Exhibit in the Visitor and Education Center


• Northern California Daffodil Society in the Visitor and Education Center

Last Updated: February 25, 2010