VIDEO: Group Plants 7,500 Dafodils

By: Chad Groening

TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI)- Tupelo also received a little tender love and care today.

A prominent Tupelo thoroughfare will look a lot nicer thanks to the efforts of volunteers.

For nine years, the city of Tupelo has planted Dafodils all around the city.

Dafodils are a tough flower that will bloom for years without needing any attention.

Today, they planted 7,500 of them at the intersections of McCullough Boulevard and North Gloster.

Doyce Deas started the Dafodil project and says this is an important location.

Deas says they hope to plant 10-thousand Dafodils this year. She says the first year they planted 100,000.

The project is funded by the city of Tupelo’s Quality of Life program.

The Tupelo Public Works Department even used a special machine to dig the holes- which made planting much easier this year.