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!

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

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

The Iceland Poppies were also in bloom

Purple tulips in every shade

These unique looking tulips are parrot tulips

Those tall things behind the tulips are foxgloves

The Garden Walk has every color tulip imaginable

Yellow tulips

Orange lily tulips

Deep red tulips

These little white tulips looked fake

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

Dogwood blossoms

Orange and yellow tulips

The fields of tulips look like a blanket

Orange lily tulips and yellow tulips

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

Double tulips

Pink and yellow multicolor tulips

A bumblebee doing what bumblebees do on a foxglove flower

One of these things isn't like the others

I never knew rebar grew on trees. Must be tough to prune!

Wisteria covers the fountain theatre

Nothing says Spring like a field of tulips and daffodils

Keeping these hedges trimmed has got to be a fulltime job

Tulips of every shape and color

Yellow tulips

These double yellow tulips barely even look like tulips

Apparently daffodils come in colors other than white & yellow. Who knew?

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

Double yellow daffodil

There are daffodils all over Longwood

I think this cat was trying to blend in with the Spring flowers

These daffodils were my personal favorite

Red & yellow multicolor tulips

The main fountain garden shows don't start for a few more weeks

A hawks circles above Longwood

Gardenia tree in the conservatory

Bird of Paradise

Yellow Calla Lily

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

I've never seen such bright white hyacinths

Longwood Gardens has an extensive Camellia breeding program

The pools in the conservatory are surrounded by pink Hydrangia and Pride-of-Tenerife

White Calla Lily

Purple Hydrangea

Longwood has every kind of orchid imaginable

Longwood has every kind of orchid imaginable

Longwood has every kind of orchid imaginable

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

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

Venus Fly Traps

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

More orchids

This waterfall photo was taken with a slow shutter speed

The Longwood bell tower

The topiary garden