Downtown Daffodil Project
Central Atlanta Progress, in conjunction with Am Yisrael Chai!, produces the annual Downtown Daffodil Project in support of the worldwide Daffodil Project. The Daffodil Project aims to build a Living Holocaust Memorial by planting 1.5 million daffodils around the world to remember and represent the one and a half million children who died in Nazi-occupied Europe and bring awareness to those currently suffering human rights crises throughout the world.
The Downtown Daffodil Project contributes to the worldwide effort by creating a “ribbon of consciousness” between the Center for Civil and Human Rights and the King Center. The Project continues to grow, now at 275,000 daffodils across the center city.
Daffodil Planting Timeline
CAP/ADID and their community partners have thoughtfully grown the Downtown Daffodil Project since its 2014 inception. Each planting season, team members and volunteers work together to add to the total number of daffodils in Downtown Atlanta. Downtown Atlanta is the largest site for The Daffodil Project, with over 341,250 daffodils planted as of early 2024.
Below is a yearly breakdown of the number of daffodils planted by Atlanta Downtown each planting season:
2014: 110,000
2016: 2,000
2017: 65,000
2018: 30,000
2019: 15,000
2020: 20,000
2021: 20,000
2022: 10,000
2023: 10,000
2024: 12,500
Daffodil Project Partners
Central Atlanta Progress, the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District, Am Yisrael Chai, Gibbs Landscape Co.