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This spring when you see daffodils blooming in your own back yard or around our city let it be your reminder to
check out the entrance to Mine Falls Lincoln Park and along the Rails-to-Trails path on
the south side of Nashua City Hall. At these sites, members from the Nashua Garden Club with the help from some local
organizations (Senior Girl Scout Troop 007, several young ladies from Temple Beth Abraham and the city's own Park &
Recreation Department) planted 1400 Daffodil Bulbs and 240 Daylilly plants in the fall of 2004.
Why daffodils and daylilies? Because daffodils and daylilys can provide two seasons of beauty we chose to plant them as
companion plants. The daffodils with their beautiful blooms in the spring, prime the vista for the daylilies that bloom
in the summer. When the daffodils begin to flower the daylily foliage emerges acting as a tufted filler between the daffodil
blooms. As the daffodils stop flowering and start to die back the daylilies spring forth, their expanding fans camouflaging the
daffodils yellowing foliage. Grown together these two plants furnish a single space with two seasons of beauty.
This planting was the first of projects such as this throughout the city of Nashua. We depend greatly on the businesses
of downtown Nashua to support our garden tours and this is our way of saying "THANK YOU NASHUA".
So this spring pay attention to daffodil plantings and then check back in June. You'll see all kinds of colorful, ingenious
creative combinations throughout our great city.
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