This morning we visited Cheekwood Botanical Gardens in Nashville.
Cheekwood has been going all out with tulips the last couple of years. Last year, they claimed 50,000 bulbs. This year, they upped the ante and doubled the count to a neat 100,000!
Here are some highlights from our visit - plenty of tulips, but also some dogwoods and ...
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| River of orange |
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| What a lovely spot for a rendezvous... |
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| So many colors -- somehow they all work beautifully together! |
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| Who doesn't love a fringed purple tulip? |
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| These majestic mature crape myrtle trees may still be bare, but their exfoliated trunks serve as the perfect vertical contrast to this flowing river of white and purple tulips |
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| What a sunny, cheerful sight! |
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| Here's an unusual "deconstructed" yellow tulip surrounded by some complementary more formal peers |
And it wasn't
all about the tulips at Cheekwood. The garden has an impressive collection of dogwoods, many of which were in bloom. Our favorite was Cherokee Chief:
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| Cornus florida "Xanthocarpa" |
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| Cornus florida "Xanthocarpa" flowers against a blue April sky |
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| Side-by-side pink and white flowering dogwood trees seem to enhance each other's beauty |
Wow.... amazing! beautiful tulips and dogwood! They are the beauty that I have never found here. Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteThank you, Endah! I am happy you enjoyed the photos :)
DeleteWow Aaron what an incredible display especially the tulips...I wish I could have these drifts in my garden.
ReplyDeleteThanks Donna. You could totally have those tulip drifts -- just hire a bunch of gardeners like Cheekwood does to plant thousands of bulbs! ;-)
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