Photo: Priscilla Hughes (left) and Cathy Chin from the Belmont Garden Club planting seasonal flora among blooming daffodils at the Horse Trough in Belmont Center.

Four times a year, members of the Belmont Garden Club head out into the community to plant seasonal flowers and flora in squares, roundabouts, and along the streets around town. On Friday, April 18, Priscilla Hughes and Cathy Chin, who head BGC’s community planting effort, gave the ‘horse trough’ a spring sprucing up with Easter lilies and lilacs.

Yet the highlight of the corner display and throughout Belmont are the thousands of blooming yellow daffodils blanketing community spaces in the past week.

In the fall of 2020, the Garden Club planted an initial 10,000 daffodil bulbs—1,500 around the horse trough in Belmont Center and 8,500 along Concord Avenue as you enter Belmont from Cambridge. Another 600 were subsequently planted at the World War I memorial at the Belmont Lions Club on Royal Road. Each spring since the arrival of the official flower of Wales has heralded spring in Belmont.

The Garden Club will hold its annual fundraiser outside the Lions Club on Town Day, Saturday, May 17, selling flowers, plants, and herbs.