Daffodils Back At Mississippi State One Year After President Ordered Them Destroyed

One year ago former Mississippi State University President Robert "Doc" Foglesong ordered landscape workers to dig up and destroy approximately 5,000 daffodil bulbs that had grown on the campus for many years. Seems the Prez didn't much like daffodils because he thought they were ugly after blooming. He decided they should be replaced with high maintenance rose bushes.

Daffodil-gate

The order to kill the daffodils angered students and alumni and was quickly dubbed "daffodil-gate." Some students even formed a Facebook group called "Save the MSU Daffodils." In the end only a small number of the daffodils were ever removed. One year later,Foglesong is gone and the daffodils are back. In the autumn of 2008 the missing bulbs were replenished and should bloom at the normal time in March.

You can read the full story on the MSU Reflector website.