a spoon is here from it may to mid june the daffodils for the floats up picked by hand this does no damage to the flowers it actually helps them reproduce for the next year to keep the process fresh the participants have to handle them very carefully never an employee piece and i found it very important that they be picked up no more than three days ahead of time they have to be refrigerated and kept dry because if they get wet they'll turn brown but that is really the preparations are in full swing lots of volunteers help thread the flowers they take three to four daffodil blossoms tie them together and stick them through the next hole which gives them ideal support. normally the floats must consist of at. east seventy percent daffodils this year a pool harvest prompted organizers to relax the rules so often blossoms like daisies a natural materials like moss could be used to swell. the participants in the bald