Horticulture

GOLDEN ROADS

Each fall for more than a decade, members of the Lewisboro Garden Club in Lewisboro, N.Y., and community volunteers have spent a late-October Saturday morning planting thousands of daffodil bulbs. They’ve planted daffodils along town roads, in triangle intersections and traffic islands and at schools, the fire department, the community center and more. In spring, gold and white flowers line the byways of this woodsy cluster of hamlets one hour north of New York City.

The project is called Golden Roads. To date, the group has planted more than 47,000 daffodils along area roads, while inspiring local homeowners to plant tens of thousands more on their own properties. Now in its 12th

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