Celebrate springtime surrounded
by meadows of tulips and daffodils at Atlanta
Blooms, the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s
fifth annual bulb festival from March through April.
Watch while the landscape changes
almost daily as more than 300,000 bulbs spring to life, including 44,000 new
ones planted last fall.
“Springtime is always beautiful
in Atlanta, and this is our gift to the city – the opportunity to relish the
season by immersing yourself in all this color and fragrance,” said Garden
President & CEO Mary Pat Matheson.
Among the 41,500 tulips, look for
sweeping beds of The Cure (hot pink), La Courtine (yellow with a red flame),
and Teletubby (orange). Bulbs that were trials last year and made the cut
this year include Gander’s Rhapsody (pink and white), National Velvet (red) and
Jap Groot (yellow and cream). This year, the Garden also is experimenting with
Mango Charm (peach), Rhapsody of Smile (reddish-orange) and Sherbet (hot pink
and white). Container gardens will spill with Wilbrink’s Star (red and yellow),
Honeymoon (white) and Orange Princess (orange).
As part of the Daffodil Project –
a worldwide effort memorializing children killed in the Holocaust – nearly
1,000 new Narcissus have been added to the Garden. In addition, about 1,500 new
perennial bulbs now call the Garden home, including Alliums, Galanthus,
Leucojum and Anemones.
All of these new additions join
hundreds of thousands of existing daffodils, species tulips, crocuses and
hyacinths.
“Planning for our tulip displays
begins one year out while the current year’s blooms are in full swing,” said
Amanda Campbell Bennett, manager of display gardens. “Our overall color schemes
for each planting bed rotate annually, so no two years are alike!”
Peak bloom periods are dependent
upon winter weather conditions, so she advised visitors check the Garden’s web
site in early spring for updates.
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