Atlanta Blooms at the Atlanta Botanical Garden This Spring

Share this:  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. The mission of the Atlanta Botanical Garden is to develop and maintain plant collections for display education, research, conservation, and enjoyment.  The Garden is located at 1345 Piedmont Ave. NE in Midtown, between 14th Street and Monroe Drive.  The Garden is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sunday.  Admission is $21.95 adults, $15.95 children 3-12, free to children under 3 and Garden members.  For more information visit atlantabg.org or phone 404-876-5859.

Atlanta Blooms! Atlanta Botanical Garden Pops with More than 300,000 Bulbs!

Atlanta Blooms!

Spring Pops at the Garden with

More Than 300,000 Bulbs

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 more than 51,000 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 8,000 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.

Support for Atlanta Blooms! is provided by The Hilma Malone Hearn Memorial Endowment.

Atlanta Botanical Gardens - Atlanta Blooms

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.