Lark Cowart of St. Charles and her daughter Meredith Peterson, 8, decided to get their hands dirty Saturday morning during a planting project not far from the Fox River in the city.

They were part of an army of volunteers led by the River Corridor Foundation of St. Charles on a mission known as Project Daffodil – a mass bulb-planting effort – that took place at the entrance of Mt. St. Mary Park in St. Charles.

“This is the first time we’ve done this,” Cowart said. “They’ve given us specific planting instructions on which direction to plant the bulbs and how deep and how many so that they actually grow in the spring.”

Beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, volunteers assembled at the south end of the park where a total of 5,000 mixed daffodil bulbs were scheduled to be planted.

According to John

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