See Biltmore in Bloom for Easter Weekend

 Spring has dressed the Biltmore grounds in bright colors ready for the Easter Weekend. The featured flower is the tulip, at peak this week. Their bright, nodding heads blanket Biltmore's gardens in yellows, pinks, reds, oranges, and more. Plan your spring visit today and get the current BEST PRICES on Biltmore tickets.

See everything that's blooming at Biltmore with their  Weekly Bloom Report.  You can also brighten up your computer's desktop by downloading our digital wallpaper, featuring the flower of the week.

"Biltmore Blooms" Begins this Week

March 20 - May 23   Biltmore Blooms - The 29th Annual Festival of Flowers. Biltmore's gardens, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, are alive with color as spring arrives. Enjoy special events and the beauty of tulips, azaleas, and countless other flowers during Biltmore Blooms. 

For the first time, guests will be able to step down into the Winter Garden to enjoy a display of exotic orchids intimately, just as George and Edith Vanderbilt's guests might have. Some of the plants will be the same species that were planned for the Biltmore Conservatory in 1894. Outdoors, enjoy a beautiful progression of blooms from tulips to pansies, azaleas, and much more.

Biltmore in Bloom Update

Now through May 1, 2013 see what's blooming at Biltmore:

Estate Entry and Approach Road:
Lily Magnolia, Redbud trees, Crabapples, Flowering Dogwood, Carolina Silverbell, Fothergilla, Spicebush, Japanese Pieris, Candytuft, Veronica, Lots of Tulips, PJM Rhododendrons, Creeping Phlox, Pansies, Azaleas, Plum Leaf Viburnum, Doublefile Viburnum, and Burkwood Viburnum
Shrub Garden:
Wisteria, Red Buckeye, Redbud trees, Lily Magnolia, Crabapple, Flowering Dogwood, Pearlbush, Kerria, Virginia Bluebells, Flowering Quince, Heather, Viburnums, Bladdernut, Cutleaf Lilac, Littleleaf Lilac, and Variegated Solomons Seal

Spring Garden:
Flowering Quince, Redbud trees, Flowering Dogwood, Spicebush, Lily Magnolia, Olga Mezett and Royal Azalea, Japanese Pieris, PJM Rhododendron, and Fothergilla
Azalea Garden:
Red Buckeye, Sweetshrub, Native Azaleas, Evergreen Azaleas, Carolina Silverbell, Flowering Dogwood, Redbud trees, Japanese Pieris, Mayapple, Virginia Bluebells, Bishops Cap, and Lily Magnolias
Walled Garden:
Tulips, Veronica, Moss Phlox, Lily Magnolia, Euphorbias, Scabiosa, Daffodils, Violas, Candytuft, Hyacinths, Apple Espalier, Tree Peony, and Iris
Inn on Biltmore Estate:
Redbud Trees, Serviceberry, PJM Rhododendrons, Rosemary, Viburnums, Lily Magnolia, Flowering Dogwood, and Forsythia
Antler Hill Village, Winery and Farm:
Lily Magnolia, Flowering Dogwood, Crabapples, Carolina Silverbell, Paw Paw, Azaleas, Fothergilla, Tulips, Rosemary, Moss Phlox, Pansies, Candytuft, Viburnum, Kerria, PJM Rhododendron, Dianthus, and Carolina Gessimine
Conservatory:
Orchids, Asiatic Lilies, Hydrangeas, Begonias, Lily of the Nile, Pink Powder Puff Plant, Gerbera Daisies, Crown of Thorns, Oleander, Oxalis, and Little Boy Flower.

Click here to view a slide show of Biltmore's current blooms.

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Biltmore Blooms, The Annual Flower Festival, Includes 72,000 Tulips

David Simchock,
Vagabond Vistas

Biltmore's Annual Flower Festival is in full swing with springtime colors popping up everywhere. Now is a GREAT time to visit Biltmore and see some of the most amazing color in the mountains. 

Currently,  72,000 tulips are in peak bloom at the Walled Garden of the Biltmore Estate and thousands more that carpet the grounds with bright spring color. Enjoy a progression of blooms at Biltmore that begins in early April with the amazing tulip displays as well as flowering shrubs and trees, forsythia, spirea, magnolia, and flowering cherries.

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Many mountain visitors find the spring color just as exciting as the fall color. From March to June each year wildflowers and domestic gardens bloom with every color, size and shape. April abounds with the cheerful yellow of daffodils and lady Slippers; the white and pink dogwoods scattered on mountainsides, yards and along roadways; the bright pinks of the redbuds and azaleas and the purple of phaceliat.

The Buncombe TDA (www.exploreasheville.com) publishes a weekly "Spring Flower Bloom Schedule",  Each week you can learn where spring blooms are most prevalent in the mountains. Be sure to visit this page weekly for the most current spring updates.