Brooklin Garden Club delivers daffodils across the peninsula

Thousands of flowers were given to over 200 local residents

Garden club members Natalie Moses (left) and Kat Stark (right) delivering flowers to Sedgwick Elementary teachers and staff, welcomed by School Principal Carla Magoon. Rendering courtesy of Brooklin Garden Club.

May 6, 2026

By Staff

BROOKLIN—It’s been a cool, wet spring in Maine but, according to the Brooklin Garden Club, that means it’s been a good year for daffodils. On May 4, the club distributed more than 2,600 daffodils to 200 recipients across the peninsula and Deer Isle.

Volunteers “shared the bounty,” with over 200 residents, according to the press release. Photo courtesy of Brooklin Garden Club.

Volunteers assembled and distributed flower arrangements to every teacher and staff member at Sedgwick, Brooklin and Brooksville Elementary Schools in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, the club said in a press release. They also gave flowers to every participant in Healthy Peninsula’s and Simmering Pot’s weekly soup and bread delivery program. Additional bouquets were delivered to the Blue Hill Hospital and to a number of local town hall offices and libraries, the release said.

The garden club organizes deliveries like this every month during the growing season, the release said, but this month’s total of 200 vases set a record for the most flowers delivered—ever.

“This afternoon homes, classrooms, hospital rooms, and other corners of the peninsula and Deer Isle are aglow with arrangements of spring flowers,” said Anne Gilchrist in the release. Gilchrist heads the garden club’s Flowers for Neighbors program.

Gilchrist thanked Melissa Petrik of Autumn Moon Farm and Flowers, Cullen Schneider of Fairwinds Florist and Molly DellaRoman of 5 Star Orchard for donating flowers to supplement the blooms grown and picked by club members.

For more information about the Brooklin Garden Club, please visit https://brooklingardenclub.org/.