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Spring is the time of year to spend time in the Huntsville/Madison County Botanical Garden. This is the second year for the Garden's spectacular Festival of Flowers, featuring millions of blooming flowers, plants and trees.
This year the Festival is introducing two new "birds" to the public. The two giant 15-feet tall, 60-feet long peacocks are on loan from the Dallas Arboretum.
This is the Garden has decorated birdhouses scattered throughout the 112-acre garden. The birdhouses were built by Bryan Bennett and members of Troop 203 as an Eagle Scout project. Third graders at Randolph School and Annette Payne, Libby Smith, Susan Goodman, Linda Morton, Patrick Culpepper, Megan Mercier and Julia Kettle painted the houses. The Garden provides maps of the property that identify where the birdhouses are located.
One of the highlights of the Spring Festival of Flowers is the abundance tulips on display throughout the Garden like these white lily-flowered tulips
One of the twelve varieties of tulips are the pink Angelique tulips that look like peonies.
