The gardens at FiLoLi are beautiful any time of the year (as you will remember from an earlier post that showed the daffodils), but they are particularly known for their show of tulips, which usually takes place in March. The garden has a website which allows you to check on what’s blooming, and I realized that this was probably the peak time to go. So In Ja, my travel partner with whom I went to South East Asia last month, and I visited the garden today.
Here’s what we saw
Delicately multicolored tulips inter-planted with forget-me-nots
More vividly colored tulips planted in pots
And in the garden room an amazing array of potted hyacinths and tulips (I wish I could post the wonderful fragrance in this room)
There was a family enjoying the garden room – with the children taking pictures of the parents (a switch on the usual parents photographing children)
And outside, a mixed border that seemed to shimmer in the light.
White tulips close up
And another mixed border of orange, red, and yellow tulips
Here’s a closeup of the magnificent orange, yellow and red tulips – look at the red border on the petals of the yellow one – God certainly wields a fine paint brush!
A little further on there were “double” white tulips that had opened to show many petals inside.
Here’s a purple tulip that hasn’t opened yet,
And another that allows you to glimpse the wonderful colors and shapes in its heart.
Many children were enjoying the garden with parents (and grandparents). Here’s an especially colorful one, strolling with Grandpa
But tulips were not the only things to enjoy in the garden. This is a picture of the crabapple blossoms.
And a closeup of the leaves of Mianthemum Dilantatum (false lily of the valley) which I first thought were trilliums.
Later on, while walking the hiking rail, we found the real trillium.
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