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Tulip Season at Longwood Gardens

April 2010

Every time I've been to Longwood Gardens, it's usually Christmas. Once, very long ago, I was there in the summer. I finally made it to Longwood for the spring season plus it was the week the tulips were in full bloom. They have over 240,000 tulips!

002 Tulips — Before you even enter Longwood Gardens, you're greeted by hundreds of tulips

003 Tulips — Before you even enter Longwood Gardens, you're greeted by hundreds of tulips

005 Iceland Poppies — The Iceland Poppies were also in bloom

008 Tulips — Purple tulips in every shade

012 Pink & White Parrot Tulips — These unique looking tulips are parrot tulips

013 Pink Tulips & Foxgloves — Those tall things behind the tulips are foxgloves

014 Tulips — The Garden Walk has every color tulip imaginable

015 Yellow Tulips — Yellow tulips

016 Orange Tulips — Orange lily tulips

017 Red Tulips — Deep red tulips

020 White Tulips — These little white tulips looked fake

023 Italian Water Garden — The Italian Water Garden has always been one of my favorite parts of Longwood Gardens

028 Dogwood Blossoms — Dogwood blossoms

030 Yellow & Orange Tulips — Orange and yellow tulips

031 Red & Yellow Tulips — The fields of tulips look like a blanket

032 Orange & Yellow Tulips — Orange lily tulips and yellow tulips

036 Red & Yellow Tulips — Yellow and red are the same color tulips that I plant at home. They don't look like these.

037 Yellow Double Tulips — Double tulips

038 Pink & Yellow Tulips — Pink and yellow multicolor tulips

043 Bee on Foxglove — A bumblebee doing what bumblebees do on a foxglove flower

044 Red Tulip in Purple Tulips — One of these things isn't like the others

047 Rebar Tree — I never knew rebar grew on trees. Must be tough to prune!

050 Wysteria — Wisteria covers the fountain theatre

051 Tulips & Daffodils — Nothing says Spring like a field of tulips and daffodils

052 Hedge — Keeping these hedges trimmed has got to be a fulltime job

054 Tulips — Tulips of every shape and color

056 Yellow Tulips — Yellow tulips

059 Yellow Double Tulips — These double yellow tulips barely even look like tulips

060 White & Brown Daffodils — Apparently daffodils come in colors other than white & yellow. Who knew?

062 Tulips — This is just a small portion of the over quarter million tulips at Longwood Gardens

064 Daffodil & Lady Tulips — Double yellow daffodil

065 Daffodils — There are daffodils all over Longwood

068 Cat with Collar — I think this cat was trying to blend in with the Spring flowers

069 Daffodils — These daffodils were my personal favorite

071 Red & Yellow Tulips — Red & yellow multicolor tulips

072 Fountain Garden — The main fountain garden shows don't start for a few more weeks

074 Hawk — A hawks circles above Longwood

075 Gardenia — Gardenia tree in the conservatory

078 Bird of Paradise — Bird of Paradise

079 Yellow Calla Lily — Yellow Calla Lily

080 Tower-of-Jewels — Towers-of-Jewels are one of the stranger looking plants in the conservatory

084 White Hyacinth — I've never seen such bright white hyacinths

085 Orange Camellia — Longwood Gardens has an extensive Camellia breeding program

086 Pink Hydrangea & Pride-of-Tenerife — The pools in the conservatory are surrounded by pink Hydrangia and Pride-of-Tenerife

091 Calla Lily — White Calla Lily

093 Purple Hydrangea — Purple Hydrangea

094 White Orchids — Longwood has every kind of orchid imaginable

095 White & Purple Orchids — Longwood has every kind of orchid imaginable

096 Pink Orchids — Longwood has every kind of orchid imaginable

097 Japanese Maple Bonsai — Bonsai trees are fascinating. This one is a Japanese Maple that has been trained for over 30 years.

099 Japanese Black Pine Bonsai — Bonsai trees are fascinating. This one is a Japanese Black Pine that has been trained for over 35 years.

100 Venus Flytrap — Venus Fly Traps

105 Bananas — The banana trees are blooming. That is a flower below those bananas.

106 Yellow & Red Orchid — More orchids

113 Waterfall — This waterfall photo was taken with a slow shutter speed

114 Bell Tower — The Longwood bell tower

125 Topiary Garden — The topiary garden

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