Briefly...

• Daffodils will bloom again in Roosevelt Island’s Spring, thanks to a Dutch bulb supplier who was moved by the events of 9/11/01, Hans van Waardenburg. He pledged to donate 500,000 bulbs yearly and, this year, 500 of them are coming to the Island.

• They’ll be planted in six locations: Octagon Park Apartments residents will plant them in the park there; Coler-Goldwater Hospital will plant them at the public garden area of each campus; The Garden Club’s Ali Schwayri will plant them near the Good Shepherd Community Center and PS/IS 217; and RIOC staff will plant them in the turnaround garden just north of 475 Main Street.

• In the autumn of 2001, the Roosevelt Island Historical Society coordinated the planting of 3,000 daffodil bulbs. RIHS is also coordinating this year’s planting.

• Across the City, more than 20,000 volunteers have planted some three million of the flowers in some 1,300 different sites.