2026 Daffodil Day Luncheon
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Click button below to go to On-Line Registration
and pay using PayPal, credit card, or debit card.
and pay using PayPal, credit card, or debit card.
Click button below to go to printable Mail-in Registration
and pay with a check, sent in by U.S. Mail.
Please make checks payable to: Michigan Division WNFGA
Mail to: Pat Brown, 31616 Lexington St., Warren, MI 48092.
Please be sure to INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL and PHONE NUMBER.
Mail to: Pat Brown, 31616 Lexington St., Warren, MI 48092.
Please be sure to INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL and PHONE NUMBER.
Spirit of Detroit Award for Daffodils4Detroit
To learn more about the Spirit of Detroit Award & the Keep Michigan Beautiful Award, CLICK on photo.
Daffodils4Detroit has been awarded the Spirit of Detroit Award from the Detroit City Council, the President’s Award from Keep Michigan Beautiful, and included in USA Today’s national calendar. CLICK Photo above to learn more.
Daffodil Day Luncheon will be held on Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Detroit Yacht Club, 1 Riverbank Rd, Detroit, Michigan 48207
Registration begins at 11:00am
Luncheon served 12:00 noon
Docents will be at the Belle Isle Casino, this year's special attraction, from 10:00 to 11:30 am.
Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory will open at 10am.
Pop-Up Shop Vendors will be open 11:00am to 12:00 noon and again after the program.
At the same time, pre-ordered Daffodil Tiles and Daffodil Notecards may be picked up and Daffodil Notecards purchased.
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Non-alcoholic "Daffodil Delight" mocktail will be served before the luncheon in the second floor lobby.
Cash bar is also available for alcoholic beverages.
The Menu
Bread basket with breadsticks, baguette slices, garlic rolls and butter
Crispy chicken salad with romaine & mixed greens, cucumber, roasted corn,
cheddar-jack cheese, hard cooked egg & honey-mustard vinaigrette,
Sicilian lemon torte & beverage
(Dietary restrictions will be accommodated.)
Luncheon will be served at 12:00 noon.
Program
(Presentation starts after Luncheon begins.)
Belle Isle Update from Megan Elliot, President Belle Isle Conservancy
Keynote Speaker is Heather Grondin,
Chief Relations Officer for the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority,
"Gordie Howe International Bridge"
Program for 2026
Gordie Howe International Bridge
CLICK photo below to learn more.
To learn more CLICK photo. Keynote Speaker: Heather Grondin, Chief Relations Officer for Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority. will give us an update on the Gordie Howe International Bridge.
The newly renovated Belle Isle Casino, our 2026 Special Attraction. A casino, not for gambling, but for people to gather in a beautiful natural place. CLICK PHOTO TO LEARN MORE.
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Shopping: All of your favorite vendors are returning with new merchandise. New yellow Daffodil Tiles & notecards are available. CLICK PHOTO FOR MORE INFORMATION.
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There Is More!
Daffodils4Detroit Tile $50
A new issue of the lovely yellow Daffodil Tile, that almost sold out in 2025, may be ordered when you purchase your ticket on-line or by check. Daffodil Notecards may also be purchased in advance.
Pre-paid tiles and notecards may be picked up before the Luncheon.
Daffodil Notecards $20
A package of twelve of our classic Daffodils4Detroit notecards for $20 may be purchased at the Luncheon.
Notecards may also pre-paid when you buy your tickets on-line or by check. Pre-paid notecards maybe picked before the luncheon.
Daffodils4Detroit Tile $50
A new issue of the lovely yellow Daffodil Tile, that almost sold out in 2025, may be ordered when you purchase your ticket on-line or by check. Daffodil Notecards may also be purchased in advance.
Pre-paid tiles and notecards may be picked up before the Luncheon.
Daffodil Notecards $20
A package of twelve of our classic Daffodils4Detroit notecards for $20 may be purchased at the Luncheon.
Notecards may also pre-paid when you buy your tickets on-line or by check. Pre-paid notecards maybe picked before the luncheon.
Daffodils4Detroit Tile $50.
You can purchase on-line when you buy your ticket. Pick up tiles at luncheon.
Daffodil Day Luncheon Centerpieces
The array of different centerpieces adds much to the elegance of the luncheon. Forty-five centerpieces are needed .
Remember: Following the event, centerpieces will be taken home by those who brought them.
CLICK on photo below to learn more.
Remember: Following the event, centerpieces will be taken home by those who brought them.
CLICK on photo below to learn more.
Centerpieces add an elegant touch to Daffodil Day Luncheon. CLICK photo to learn about lending a centerpiece on Daffodil Day.
Make a Donation to Daffodils4Detroit
Donations may be made on-line using
Daffodil Day On-Line Registration Form.
This is the same form used to purchase tickets on-line,
(You do NOT have to purchase a ticket to use the On-Line Registration Form
for donations or the purchase of tiles and notecards.)
You may also write a check for your donation.
Please make it payable to: Michigan Division WNFGA
Mail to: Pat Brown, 31616 Lexington St., Warren, MI 48092.
Please be sure to INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL & phone number.
Donations go directly to buying & planting daffodil bulbs.
Please consider one of these levels for yourself,
your branch, or as a shared gift from your family or friends.
Double Golden - $5,000 or more. Acknowledgement from the lectern, on the website, social media, on-site signage, and a commemorative Daffodil Day Tile.
Golden Long - $1,000-4,999. Acknowledgement on the website, social media, on-site signage, and a commemorative Daffodil Day Tile.
Trumpeter - $500-$999. Acknowledgement on the website, social media, and on-site signage
Dutch Master - $500-- $450 Acknowledgement on website, social media, and on-site signage
King Alfred -- $450-- $250 Acknowledgement on the website, social media, and on-site signage
History of Daffodils4Detroit
• October 13, 2009 — Lyndon Miller speaks at a luncheon at the Detroit Yacht Club about the Daffodil Project in Manhattan. The luncheon was organized by Cecily O’Connor, Bloomfield Hills Branch (tickets $85 & $125 for daffodil patrons)
• April 27, 2010 — First Daffodil Luncheon organized at the DYC by Claudia Scioly, Ann Arbor branch (tickets $25 WNFGA members, $35 guests)
• 2012 Luncheon Notables — (a) Aislinn Scofield creates the signature image using Lady Bird Johnson quote,
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”
The notecard was distributed as a luncheon favor.
(b) Daffodil Project announces the vision of celebrating each life in the Detroit region by planting 650,000 bulbs, goal in 2012 was 650,000 bulbs planted on Belle Isle representing one for each resident of Detroit.
• 2012 — Michigan Division Council Meeting — Michigan Division
approves the Daffodil Project as a Division project beginning in 2013.
• 2017 Luncheon Notables — (a) Introduction of Daffodils4Detroit name and planting expansion from Belle Isle into Detroit
(b) City of Detroit proclamation —envisioned and shepherded
through the process by Michigan Division member
and former president Sheila Kneeshaw--
that the third Wednesday in April would Daffodils Day
(c) D4D receives Spirit of Detroit award from the City of Detroit.
• September 2017 — D4D receives the President’s Award,
Keep Michigan Beautiful’s hightest award.
• April 25, 2018 — City of Detroit announces goal to plant
1,000,0000 daffodils in the city by 2020.
• Fall 2018 — D4D reaches goal of 650,000 bulbs planted on Belle Isle, representing one bulbs for each City of Detroit resident.
A new goal is to plant 4 million daffodils,
one for every resident of metropolitan Detroit.
• 2019 — 10th annual Daffodil Day Luncheon
• 2020 — In-person luncheon cancelled due to the pandemic;
donations were accepted.
• 2021 — Committee holds VIRTUAL Daffodil Day due to pandemic,
donations were accepted.
• 2022 — Daffodil Day Luncheon returns Tickets SELL OUT!
• 2023 --- A goal of 4 million daffodil bulbs planted in metro Detroit was met.
A new goal of 10 million daffodil bulbs,
one for every resident of Michigan, was set.
Photos from Daffodil Day 2025
Click on an image to enlarge
• October 13, 2009 — Lyndon Miller speaks at a luncheon at the Detroit Yacht Club about the Daffodil Project in Manhattan. The luncheon was organized by Cecily O’Connor, Bloomfield Hills Branch (tickets $85 & $125 for daffodil patrons)
• April 27, 2010 — First Daffodil Luncheon organized at the DYC by Claudia Scioly, Ann Arbor branch (tickets $25 WNFGA members, $35 guests)
• 2012 Luncheon Notables — (a) Aislinn Scofield creates the signature image using Lady Bird Johnson quote,
“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”
The notecard was distributed as a luncheon favor.
(b) Daffodil Project announces the vision of celebrating each life in the Detroit region by planting 650,000 bulbs, goal in 2012 was 650,000 bulbs planted on Belle Isle representing one for each resident of Detroit.
• 2012 — Michigan Division Council Meeting — Michigan Division
approves the Daffodil Project as a Division project beginning in 2013.
• 2017 Luncheon Notables — (a) Introduction of Daffodils4Detroit name and planting expansion from Belle Isle into Detroit
(b) City of Detroit proclamation —envisioned and shepherded
through the process by Michigan Division member
and former president Sheila Kneeshaw--
that the third Wednesday in April would Daffodils Day
(c) D4D receives Spirit of Detroit award from the City of Detroit.
• September 2017 — D4D receives the President’s Award,
Keep Michigan Beautiful’s hightest award.
• April 25, 2018 — City of Detroit announces goal to plant
1,000,0000 daffodils in the city by 2020.
• Fall 2018 — D4D reaches goal of 650,000 bulbs planted on Belle Isle, representing one bulbs for each City of Detroit resident.
A new goal is to plant 4 million daffodils,
one for every resident of metropolitan Detroit.
• 2019 — 10th annual Daffodil Day Luncheon
• 2020 — In-person luncheon cancelled due to the pandemic;
donations were accepted.
• 2021 — Committee holds VIRTUAL Daffodil Day due to pandemic,
donations were accepted.
• 2022 — Daffodil Day Luncheon returns Tickets SELL OUT!
• 2023 --- A goal of 4 million daffodil bulbs planted in metro Detroit was met.
A new goal of 10 million daffodil bulbs,
one for every resident of Michigan, was set.
Photos from Daffodil Day 2025
Click on an image to enlarge
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