BOYLSTON, Mass. - The New England Botanic Garden says that usually from the third week of April to the first week of May is the best time for daffodils. Now they’re welcoming hundreds of guests to Field of Daffodils every day.


What You Need To Know

  • New England Botanic Garden is welcoming visitors to view their Field of Daffodils

  • They were first planted in 1991 and because of the spreading nature of daffodils, they said it's grown in size every year since

  • Daffodils typically peak in late-April to early-May

  • New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is a 200-acre four season botanic garden in Boylston, MA

“I really like the whites," Kathryn Wall said. "It's really cool that it's like a mixture of white and yellow. I think it's really cool.”

No matter what your favorite daffodil is, there are thousands to see in the New England Botanic Garden’s Field of Daffodils.

"In springtime, there's so many beautiful flowers here," Wall said. "I really like to see a lot of them; the daffodils are my favorite. But they're just a beautiful sight to see.”

"Every single year, because they naturalize, they get that much better every single year," Hunter Blanchard said. "And so around this time, they erupt in this magical sea of yellow.”

Blanchard is a horticulturist for the naturalistic gardens and agreed it’s feeling like spring up on Tower Hill.

"Daffodils are a really fun and charismatic spring flowers," Blanchard said. "When you think of spring, I think of a daffodil. I think of my grandmother's house. I think of the daffodils that she planted around. And they're super reliable."

New England Botanic Garden’s Field of Daffodils was first planted in 1991. Because of the spreading nature of the flowers, the field has grown in size every year since.

Despite some snow in early April, Blanchard said this week’s warm temperatures provide peak conditions for the field.

"In the early part of spring we saw some warm days, some warm stretches of weather and we thought we might have an early spring," Blanchard said. "But it's been fabulously cool recently and now this is the perfect temperature for these blossoms to hang on a little bit longer. And even though today looks gorgeous, we really think that this weekend is going to be peak."

Blanchard said the daffodils will start to fade a bit as the month ends, but they also have flowers planted in the woodland areas on their grounds, which last a little bit longer.

The field is also multipurpose and Blanchard said it has a huge layer of other perennial flowers which will pop up. So, if you miss the daffodils, there will be plenty of other flowers to see in their meadow.