TULIP
FESTIVAL
Friday 23rd April every day
until Bank Holiday Monday 3rd May, inclusive
£8.50 entrance, no concessions
One of the highlights
of the early season at Pashley Manor Gardens is the
Tulip Festival. Visitors return year after year, mesmerised
by the sheer volume of colour and variety of the massed
tulips.
The Festival originated
to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the tulip’s arrival in Europe
from Persia and has gone from strength to strength
since its inception.
Now in its sixteenth
year, the Festival gives visitors the chance to lose
themselves among the 20,000 blooms gracing this quintessential
English Garden. Such is the popularity of the Festival
that for the fifth year running the event will
run for 11 consecutive days instead of the original
5.
Each area of the
garden holds stunning displays; some 90 varieties are
shown from the vibrant red and hot orange coloured
tulips in the herbaceous borders to the cream, white,
pale golden yellow and apricot tulips in the Elizabethan
Garden and the pink and white tulips along the Terrace.
Complementing the themed
tulips of every hue are 2,000 cut blooms on display in
vases.
Pashley’s
Tulip Festival is held in association with Bloms Bulbs,
winners of 59 Chelsea Gold Medals. Bulb orders for
Bloms Bulbs may be taken at this time for delivery
and payment in the autumn.
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