After the grey and cold winter, colorful flowers bloom and carpet everywhere from Japan to Belgium. Here are eight best places where you can see spring flowers including Mojave Desert in California, Keukenhof Gardens in Netherlands and Umbria in Italy.
Keukenhof Gardens from the Netherlands, the world’s largest tulip garden in the world, is home to 4.5 million Dutch tulips of about 100 varieties covering 80 acres such as dark pink China tulips, yellow West Point tulips and red Mariette tulips. It also has other types of flowers (daffodils and hyacinths), sculptures and trees.
Keukenhof Gardens in Netherlands
Though the Friday’s disastrous earthquake and tsunami has prevented many tourists from visiting Japan this spring, white and pink cheery blossoms are seen across the country, especially in larger cities of Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Nagoya. Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine is home to a dense concentration of blossoms in full bloom.
Cherry Blossoms in Japan
During the spring, the Mojave Desert is deeply covered with orange fluorescent California poppy flowers. This area consists of the 1,745-acre Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, home to poppies and other wildflowers.
Mojave Desert in California, US
Besides natural carpets of orange poppies across the Atlantic, visitors also travel Italy's hilly Umbria region for darker orange poppies from mid-April to May and spectacular hiking opportunities throughout the region as well as in neighboring Tuscany.
Umbria in Italy
Washington D.C. celebrates its annual Cherry Blossom festivalfrom March 26 to April 10 to celebrate the friendship between US and Japan because the mayor of Tokyo gave 3,000 Yoshino cherry trees to the U.S. as a special gift nearly 100 years ago.
Cherry Blossoms in Washington DC, US
The 200-foot beech trees in Halle Forest just south of Brussels, Belgium look more stunning behind a carpet of blue wild hyacinths for two weeks in April.
Wild Hyacinths in Halle Forest, Belgium
When the spring is coming, the countryside of Cotswolds, UK is painted with butter-yellow color from daffodils flowers. In the tiny village of Dymock, hundreds of walkers enjoy miles of beautiful wild daffodils as their natural habitat.
Daffodils in Cotswolds, England
Traveling around the Hill Country in central Texas, you have a good opportunity to see Bluebonnet flowers carpeting the deep blue color into this area.
Bluebonnets in Texas, US
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