Tips for spring outings

Flower lovers are now ‘grinding’ back to garden centers and buying pots, soil and anything that can bloom in them.

But no matter how wonderful your own balcony or garden may look: it’s hard to pinpoint the splendor that you can experience at a true flower festival or in one of Europe’s famous flower locations. We’ve rounded up destinations especially worth visiting for early spring – if you want to see them bloom!

1. Magical almond blossom in Mallorca

Mallorca turns into a sea of ​​pink and white flowers every spring – nature’s colorful brushwork not only inspires romantics. If you want to enter the cloud of flowers yourself, you should explore one of the almond blossom paths – for example the Cami del Raiguer at the foot of the Tramuntana between the Inca and Alaró, or the country road between Porto Cristo and Porto Colóm. eastern part of the island.

2. The flower paradise in Madeira

Madeira is also called the “Island of Eternal Spring”. The climate is the same all year round: about 25 degrees hot and quite humid. The trees in Madeira have seasons: acacias, cherries and mimosas bloom in March and April. In April, the white field lilies begin to shine. Wild Lizzies and Foxglove bloom at waterfalls in May and June. Paradise flowers and strelitzias bloom all year round.

3. Mainau – Flower island

The flower island of Mainau in Lake Constance welcomes spring with a colorful carpet of countless flowers. Daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, snowdrops, forget-me-nots: after the melancholy of winter, the heralds of spring bring a new joy to life. On the island of Mainau, west of Lake Constance, near the city of Constance, there is a full “flowery pampering programme”. On the island you can admire hundreds of thousands of tulips of all imaginable colors and shapes, forming real seas of flowers in many parts of Mainau.

4. Tulips in the Netherlands

The Netherlands is the world’s largest producer of tulips – the colorful fields in spring are reminiscent of a painting by van Gogh. The largest growing area is in the Kop region in North Holland. The Keukenhof gardens south of Amsterdam are also world famous. Here, 7 million tulips of 800 different species bloom on 32 hectares. Tip: Be sure to visit the flower auction in Aalsmeer (the largest in the world) near Amsterdam.

5. Apricot blossom in Austria

Apricot blooms in Wachau are expected between late March and early April. This is an amazing show, it also means an unofficial kickoff signal for the season to kick off in the world heritage site. Walking along the Marillenweg is a pure pleasure. Nearly 100,000 apricot trees with their white-pink buds offer a fascinating experience for all the senses.

Source : Blick