Tulip Season at Longwood Gardens April 2010 Everytime I've been to Longwood Gardens it's usually Christmas or very long ago I was there in the summer. I finally made it to Longwood for not only the Spring season, but it was the week the tulips were in full bloom. They have over 240,000 tulips!
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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 unigue 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 whote & 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 hyscinths
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.
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