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Kiss those winter blues goodbye
with thousands of spring bulbs
Welcome spring with a colorful bang of
flower power in March and April as Atlanta Blooms explodes
throughout the Atlanta Botanical Garden with hundreds of thousands
of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and crocuses.
While tulips are certainly the
stars of the show – with more than 30,000 in a wide variety of
pastel pinks, peach, and yellows planted last fall -- thousands of
lesser known bulbs, annuals, and flowering perennials also will
round out the Garden’s spring collection.
Most visitors are surprised to
learn it takes an entire year to plan such an amazing show of bulb
color. For this spring’s spectacle, the work began in spring 2016
as tulips were in full bloom. Flowers were collected and mixed and
matched with other tulips in the Garden to determine which colors
complemented each other and which ones should never be caught dead
together. Through trial-and-error, color combos made the cut for
the following year.
Every spring, the Garden also
experiments with new bulb varieties to test the latest color craze
and keep the show fresh from year to year. This spring’s trials
include tulips such as the red ‘Spryng’ and red and orange
‘Avignon’ as well as lesser known bulbs such as the multi-colored
Fritillaria.
Look for two new areas in Atlanta Blooms. Longleaf restaurant becomes a stunning backdrop
for a tried-and-true staff favorite tulip combination of yellow
‘Big Smile’ and orange ‘Big Chief’. And the Children’s Garden is
all about fun with pops of hyacinths and tulips throughout.
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