By early April, everyone on campus had had enough of filthy snow boots and down coats. All eyes were eagerly watching the hill behind Weaver House, as 108 inches of recordbreaking snow melted slowly, slowly away.

Suddenly, there they were: 30,000 daffodils blooming in a riot of yellow and white. Planted in fall 2013 thanks to a gift from former trustee Sidney Knafel, the daffodils brought particular cheer this year to a winter-weary campus.

They also helped to inspire a new garden planted in memory of Molly Sanderson Campbell ’60, Wellesley’s beloved, longtime dean of students. “Molly was thrilled when that profusion of daffodils appeared on the hill below Oakwoods [as Weaver House was called when she lived there],” says former class dean Pamela Koehler Daniels ’59. “But it was more than that: She took pleasure in the first signs of spring anywhere.”

Thanks to Daniels, Campbell’s daughter Alison, and many others, Molly’s Garden debuted this spring along the stream that feeds Paramecium Pond. Designed by Alison Campbell, a landscape designer, it will include some 500 perennials, hundreds of bulbs, and stone benches. “We expect [it] to erupt in glorious bloom, spring after spring,” Daniels says.

The garden will be dedicated on June 7, during reunion weekend. All are welcome.