(Image: Volunteer Park Trust)

No more callers. We have a winner. The contest to spot the first daffodil bloom in Volunteer Park lasted about three weeks.

The Volunteer Park Trust announced over the weekend that the first photo of a bloom has already come in after a park visitor found the small burst of golden yellow just steps away from the park’s historic conservatory.

CHS reported here in January on the trust’s contest to reward the eagle-eyed visitor who spots the first Volunteer Park daffodil bloom of spring.

Despite the topsy turvy effects of a fading El Niño, Seattle’s official spring is still a long ways off. The first day of spring 2024 is recorded as March 19th. You can turn your clocks forward an hour a week earlier on the 10th.

As for the park, there will be hundreds more where the first came from.  In 2021, volunteers planted 25,000 daffodil bulbs in tribute to Doug Bayley, co-founder of Volunteer Park Trust and “the visionary who conceived of this beautiful and impressive swath of yellow returning permanently every spring.”

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