Spring to Pop This March at Atlanta Botanical Garden with More Than 300,000 Bulbs

Celebrate springtime surrounded by meadows of fiery tulips and vibrant daffodils at Atlanta Blooms, the Atlanta Botanical Garden's 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 38,000 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 tulips, visitors will be wowed by sweeping beds of Tequila Sunrise (mix of reds, oranges, yellows), Perestroyka (pink, peach, salmon), Daydream (orange), Menton (pink), and Maureen (cream). In addition, hundreds of 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 fragrant 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.

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 Avenue NE in Midtown, between 14th Street and Monroe Drive. The Garden is open from April - October from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday (till 10 p.m. Thursdays) and from November-March from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Daytime admission is $18.95 adults, $12.95 children 3-12, free to children under 3 and Garden members (Sales tax not included). For more information visit atlantabg.org or phone 404-876-5859.