Chateau Grand Bigrad a splendid visual feast

This post is includes more previosuly unpublished photos of my visit to Grand Bigard in 2012. Since I was unable to be there this year I thought that I might as well share more of the many photos I took. Please forgive me if I include any that have already been published in a previous post.
In this post I have selected photos to illustrate some of the mixed groupings of flowers and colours. If ever you are in Belgium during the period in which this is held for four weeks in early April till early May the annual flower show at Chateau Grand Bigrad is a definate MUST see.
I also strongly recommend getting the multiple entry pass as there is no way  you can see everything in one day unless you rush around and believe me their astinishing spectacle of floral colours and forms is not something you can or should want to rush through.

 

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Additional Information

For more information and pictures either click on the lable "Chateau  Grand Bigard" or this link to my first post on that visit. You can also visit the Grand Bigard official site for information as to the annual event.

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Hyacinths at Chateau Grand Bigard

Hyacinths at Chateau Grand Bigard


I have been going through some of the hundreds of photos I took in 2012 at Chateau Grand Bigard and posting some of those I have not et posted. For this post I decided to do one all on Hyacinths.

 

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Floria Brussels, Château de Grand Bigrad: PART 4

Floria Brussels, Château de Grand Bigard: PART 4

Here are MORE photos of my visit in April 2012 to Floria Brussels held at Chateau Grand Bigard.

Yes I am working on some other text to go with some of the photos but this post will be mainly photos.

I will post the other stuff latter as I need to do some research and editing first. Just so you know it will include some background information about the various flowers.

Some of the information will be about technical botanical / scientific details like the binomial names of the different flowers, which will probably be boring to some people (who can then just look at the pictures). I am also going to try and fit in some stuff about where the various flowers are native and how they got to Europe.

I might also try and dig up information about growing them although I might stick that at the bottom in the ADDITIONAL INFORMATION section. Just in case anyone is interested.

I have also been looking up information regarding legends and mythological significance of some flowers as well as other interesting tid bits of information. So I hope I can provide some things that your mind can chew on while your eyes feast on the pictures.

I think that these opened earlier and were getting on a bit although they still looked amazing even as they were starting to disintegrate.

Mix of four different types of tulips.

Daffodils

Note again how they are at different stages of development. Even the unopened flower buds added to the beauty of it all.

More stunning flowers in the next post. Some sublime combinations and ... well ... you will just have to see them to believe. All I can say is I am getting a kick going through them again and rediscovering them all.

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