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Spring Gardens

United States

Desert Wildflowers  The heavy rains have created some extraordinary opportunities for viewing desert wildflowers this spring.  Get the scoop on what's peaking where at Desert Wildflower Watch.

Longwood Gardens Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square PA  Over 1,050 acres of gardens, woodlands, and meadows greet you at Longwood.  Open every day of the year, it attracts more than 900,000 visitors annually.

Hershey Gardens Hershey Gardens, PA  From mid-April to early May, 30,000 tulips, daffodils, forsythia, magnolias and more.

Missouri Botanical Garden Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis  A scenic woodland filled with dappled sunlight and wildflowers, punctuated by small clearings where shafts of sunshine stream in through the dark canopy, the English Woodland Garden attracts people and wildlife alike, especially in the spring when nearly 6,000 bulbs and many species of wildflowers bloom.

New York Botanical Gardens New York Botanical Gardens, NYC  During the Spring Flower Show in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a lush woodland scene graces the crystal hallways of the nation’s premier Victorian glasshouse.   Artfully designed around meandering streams and shimmering pools is an explosion of flowers and foliage you won’t see together outdoors. Spring Flower Show: April 12–June 12.

Brooklyn Botanical Garden Brooklyn Botanical Gardens  Magnolia trees burst into color on Magnolia Plaza.  The landscape pops out in pink—with graceful sweeps of weeping cherries in the Japanese Garden followed by the pageantry of clustered "Sekiyama" blossoms filling Cherry Esplanade.  Trout lilies blanket the woods in the Native Flora Garden.

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden  Zoo Blooms April 9 - May 10 features one of the largest tulip displays in the Midwest with over 55,000 tulip bulbs and over one million daffodils.

Canada

Butchart Gardens - Victoria, BC Butchart Gardens - Victoria, BC  More than 250,000 bulbs reach their peak.  Flowering cherries and plums, crabapples and some 30 species of other flowering shrubs join the display.

Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario Royal Botanical Gardens, Ontario  Apricot Beauty and Queen of the Night tulips.

United Kingdom

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Richmond, Surrey  Bulb Burst 19 March - 17 April features over 2.5 million bulbs and an array of free outdoor activities.  Woodland Wonders 30 April - 2 May, set among the bluebells, celebrates woodland crafts, traditions and folklore.

Chihuly at Kew Gardens of Glass: Chihuly at Kew 28 May 2005 - 15 Jan 2006 is the first exhibition of its kind to be held in Europe.  A spectacular sequence of organically shaped and vibrantly coloured glass sculptures will be set throughout Kew’s 300-acre garden landscape and inside the great glasshouses.