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This is an easy way to spread the beauty of Wye Mountain to the rest of Arkansas. All the details for the free festival can be found on the Facebook Event Page here. You can follow the church's Facebook Page for more information as well. Arkansas In Your Inbox spinner. Thank you! You'll receive your first newsletter soon!

Love Arkansas? Get more stories delivered right to your email. Your e-mail: Sign Up. The next year, the daffodils were picked and brought to Little Rock to sell at the local Curb Market, as well as on street corners and in other stores in the city. Over the years, the family began to sell their flowers in other markets, and even in other states, traveling to Oklahoma and as far away as Kansas selling their blooms. The funds earned from the sale of daffodils helped to sustain the ministry of the church, which was and still is a small congregation in Perry County.

There was no longer an effort to bring the flowers to markets as none of the church members had the time to do so. So, the decision was made to bring people to the flowers instead of bringing the flowers to them, and the Daffodil Festival was born. Visitors were allowed to visit the beautiful flowers and take bundles of daffodils home for themselves. According to Bobby Younger, communications specialist at the church, the church sees an estimated 10, visitors each year.

There are more than 40 varieties of daffodils in bloom on the 7-acre plot. Harmon must return the next spring at least half as many daffodil bulbs as he took. The Harmons saw those bulbs as a providential sign. Aided by grandson Charles U. Harmon, they dug furrows among their fruit trees. For three weeks, they vigorously planted bulbs. The Harmons cut hundreds of the fresh, dewy, yellow blossoms and then headed to Little Rock to sell them to passengers at the depot for a dime a dozen.

By , the Harmons had a bumper crop of blooms. They separated and transplanted enough bulbs to make an abundant 65 bushels. And they even took their bouquets to the rails.

Bessie later recalled for a curious reporter how they sold fresh flowers to Memphis and Shreveport railroad travelers. By , floral success let the Harmons move into a modest cottage near the church, amid the flowery field of King Alfred, Empress and orange-hued Suzy blossoms. On the way to heaven. Visitors enjoy the peaceful setting of acres of daffodils at Wye Mountain. Some began, as annual tradition, an early-spring pilgrimage to revel on the hillside and pick a few blossoms.

When Austin died in November , it fell to an aging Bessie to carry on their loving tradition.