Springtime
in the USA – Flowers Galore
Each spring, Mayflower Tours puts on a show of springtime flowers featured in three exceptional deluxe escorted holidays. The great cities of Holland, Michigan, Washington DC, Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina are in full bloom when you arrive on one of these holidays in the Springtime.
Travel
with Mayflower on the Holland Tulip Festival holiday when each May Holland,
Michigan, hosts an annual Tulip Time Festival that celebrates the planting
of tulips that began in 1930 when 250,000 tulips were planted for the
event. Currently six million tulips are used throughout the city. Tulips
are planted along many city streets, in city parks and outside municipal
buildings as well as at attractions like Dutch Village, the city-owned
Windmill Island park, and at a large tulip named Veldheer-DeKlomp Tulip
Gardens.
Traveling to our nation’s capital during cherry blossom time is a site that no one would want to miss. The streets are ablaze with the blossoms from over 3,750 cherry trees – all seen on the Cherry Blossom Festival holiday in early April.
The
date when the Yoshino cherry blossoms reach their peak bloom varies from
year to year, depending on the weather. Unseasonably warm and/or cool
temperatures have resulted in the trees reaching peak bloom as early as
March 15 (1990) and as late as April 18 (1958). The blooming period can
last up to 14 days. They are considered to be at their peak when 70 percent
of the blossoms are open. The dates of the National Cherry Blossom Festival
are set based on the average date of blooming, which is around April 4th.
Approximately 3,750 cherry trees are on the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC. Most of the trees are Yoshino Cherry. Other species include Kwanzan Cherry, Akebono Cherry, Takesimensis Cherry, Usuzumi Cherry, Weeping Japanese Cherry, Sargent Cherry, Autumn Flowering Cherry, Fugenzo Cherry, Afterglow Cherry, Shirofugen Cherry and Okame Cherry.
Washington, DC’s famed cherry trees grow in three park locations: around the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park, in East Potomac Park, and on the grounds of the Washington Monument.
In
1912, the people of Japan sent 3,020 cherry trees to the United States
as a gift of friendship. First Lady Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife
of the Japanese Ambassador, planted the first two cherry trees on the
northern bank of the Tidal Basin. These two original trees are still standing
today near the John Paul Jones statue at the south end of 17th Street.
Workmen planted the remainder of the trees around the Tidal Basin and
East Potomac Park.
If
traveling to the Southeast to take in the many flower gardens, charming
people and the magnificent plantation homes, Mayflower offers you Charleston,
Jekyll Island and Savannah, a seven-day holiday that will fill your senses.
You’ll be delighted with the variety of flowers and flowering trees including Lady Banks, Pink Jasmine, Sweet Peas and the splendid Amaryllis that you see in Savannah. But your senses will be dazzled when you see the magnificent display of azaleas that adorn Charleston. Here Camellia, Tea Olive, Crepe Myrtle and Orleanders surround you as you travel through the historic and quaint neighborhoods.
Each spring, Mayflower Tours puts on a show of springtime flowers featured in three exceptional deluxe escorted holidays. The great cities of Holland, Michigan, Washington DC, Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina are in full bloom when you arrive on one of these holidays in the Springtime.
Travel
with Mayflower on the Holland Tulip Festival holiday when each May Holland,
Michigan, hosts an annual Tulip Time Festival that celebrates the planting
of tulips that began in 1930 when 250,000 tulips were planted for the
event. Currently six million tulips are used throughout the city. Tulips
are planted along many city streets, in city parks and outside municipal
buildings as well as at attractions like Dutch Village, the city-owned
Windmill Island park, and at a large tulip named Veldheer-DeKlomp Tulip
Gardens.Traveling to our nation’s capital during cherry blossom time is a site that no one would want to miss. The streets are ablaze with the blossoms from over 3,750 cherry trees – all seen on the Cherry Blossom Festival holiday in early April.
The
date when the Yoshino cherry blossoms reach their peak bloom varies from
year to year, depending on the weather. Unseasonably warm and/or cool
temperatures have resulted in the trees reaching peak bloom as early as
March 15 (1990) and as late as April 18 (1958). The blooming period can
last up to 14 days. They are considered to be at their peak when 70 percent
of the blossoms are open. The dates of the National Cherry Blossom Festival
are set based on the average date of blooming, which is around April 4th.
Approximately 3,750 cherry trees are on the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC. Most of the trees are Yoshino Cherry. Other species include Kwanzan Cherry, Akebono Cherry, Takesimensis Cherry, Usuzumi Cherry, Weeping Japanese Cherry, Sargent Cherry, Autumn Flowering Cherry, Fugenzo Cherry, Afterglow Cherry, Shirofugen Cherry and Okame Cherry.
Washington, DC’s famed cherry trees grow in three park locations: around the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park, in East Potomac Park, and on the grounds of the Washington Monument.
In
1912, the people of Japan sent 3,020 cherry trees to the United States
as a gift of friendship. First Lady Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife
of the Japanese Ambassador, planted the first two cherry trees on the
northern bank of the Tidal Basin. These two original trees are still standing
today near the John Paul Jones statue at the south end of 17th Street.
Workmen planted the remainder of the trees around the Tidal Basin and
East Potomac Park. If
traveling to the Southeast to take in the many flower gardens, charming
people and the magnificent plantation homes, Mayflower offers you Charleston,
Jekyll Island and Savannah, a seven-day holiday that will fill your senses.
You’ll be delighted with the variety of flowers and flowering trees including Lady Banks, Pink Jasmine, Sweet Peas and the splendid Amaryllis that you see in Savannah. But your senses will be dazzled when you see the magnificent display of azaleas that adorn Charleston. Here Camellia, Tea Olive, Crepe Myrtle and Orleanders surround you as you travel through the historic and quaint neighborhoods.