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Spectacular display of 500,000 tulips draws crowds

Alex McIntyre
BBC News, West Midlands
Tania Sangha
BBC Midlands Today
A close-up of a row of tulips in a field. People can be seen walking past them in the background.
A brown wooden hut on the right, stands in front of a huge field of tulips with people walking around them.
There are more than 100 varieties of tulips at Tulleys Tulip Garden.
The tulip garden promises people a "taste of Holland".

An "incredible" garden of about half a million colourful tulips is being hosted in Warwickshire for the first time.

Tulleys Tulip Garden in Hatton, near Warwick, features more than 100 varieties of the flower with visitors able to tiptoe through them until 5 May.

They were planted in November by the organisers behind Tulleys Tulip Fest in Sussex and will bloom at various times this spring.

Shona Kelly, site manager at Tulleys Tulip Garden, said: "Seeing people's faces when they first see it is just absolutely amazing. Even I feel lucky every day to be able to see this. It's just incredible."

A field with a large number of different-coloured tulips with people wandering around it. A wooden board in the shape of a hut, with a heart-shaped opening in the middle of it, is visible in the centre.
Tulleys Tulip Garden has been hosted in Warwickshire for the first time this spring

The event promised "a taste of Holland" – a country famous for its vast tulip fields – and also features Dutch street food and live entertainment.

While the garden is open, so-called tulip guardians will maintain the fields while encouraging visitors to stick to the paths between the rows of flowers, to avoid damaging the bulbs.

Ms Kelly said this would make sure the tulips looked as beautiful and vibrant as possible "from the first day until the last".

"Apart from that, we really do just let nature do what it needs to do," she added.

A grey and white-coloured windmill in the background with a sign that says "Tulleys Tulip Farm". In the foreground is a row of yellow tulips.
The Tulleys Tulip Farm windmill provides a backdrop to the colourful garden
Several rows of different-coloured tulips in a field. People can be seen walking around the field. Buildings, including a small windmill, are visible in the background on the right.
The garden will be open until 5 May

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