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Winter's last gasps give way to flower shows, festivals
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Japanese Cherry Blossoms frame the Jefferson Memorial along the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.

Snow still is in the forecast for some locales, but other places are getting ready for spring.

And the season’s beauty will be on display with festivals and flower shows around the country, from events showcasing cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. and Brooklyn, N.Y., to celebrations of dogwoods, camellias and azaleas in the South, to apple blossom and tulip festivals in the Northwest.

Here are some of the best and biggest festivals and flower shows around the U.S. this spring, along with some notable botanical gardens where something is always in bloom.

Atlanta Dogwood Festival, April 19-21, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, dogwood.org

n Biltmore Blooms Festival of Flowers, March 21-May 31, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, N.C., biltmore.com

Boston Flower & Garden Show, March 13-17, Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, bostonflowershow.com

Camellia Walks, through March 23, Middleton Place, Charleston, S.C., middletonplace.org

Celebrate Spring, through April 30, Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, Ga., callawaygardens.com

Chicago Flower & Garden Show, March 9-17, Navy Pier, Chicago, chicagoflower.com

Daffodil Days, April 6-28, Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum, Bristol, R.I., blithewold.org

Daffodil Festival, April 26-28, Nantucket, Mass., nantucketchamber.org

Dallas Blooms, March 2-April 7, Dallas Arboretum, dallasarboretum.org

Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival, March 6-May 19, Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Fla., disneyworld.disney.go.com/events-tours/epcot/epcot-international-flower-and-garden-festival

Festival of Flowers, March 21-24, Bellingrath Gardens, Theodore, Ala., near Mobile, bellingrath.org

Garden Conservancy’s Open Days (more than 300 private gardens in 18 states open to public on select dates March-November), opendaysprogram.org

Hatsume Fair, March 23-24, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, Fla., morikami.org

Garden Club of Virginia’s Historic Garden Week, tours at various sites April 20-27, VAGardenweek.org

Lilac Festival, May 10-19, Rochester, N.Y., lilacfestival.com

National Cherry Blossom Festival, March 20-April 14, Washington, D.C., nationalcherryblossomfestival.org

Philadelphia Flower Show, through March 10, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, philaflowershow.com

Sakura Matsuri Festival, April 27-28, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N.Y., bbg.org

San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, March 20-24, San Mateo Event Center, San Mateo, Calif., sfgardenshow.com

Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival, April 26-May 5, Winchester, Va., thebloom.com

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, April 1-30, Mount Vernon, Wash. tulipfestival.org

Tulip Time Festival, Holland, Mich,, May 4-11, holland.org/visitors/tulip-time-festival

Tulip Time, May 2-4, Pell, Iowa, pellatuliptime.com/tulip-time

Washington State Apple Blossom Festival, April 25-May 5, Wenatchee, Wash., appleblossom.org

Wistaria Festival, March 17, Sierra Madre, Calif., sierramadrenews.net

Places

Bloedel Reserve, Bainbridge Island, Wash., bloedelreserve.org

Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland, cbgarden.org

Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, dbg.org

Dumbarton Oaks Gardens, Washington D.C., doaks.org

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Fla., fairchildgarden.org

Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Mass., newfs.org

Holden Arboretum, Kirtland, Ohio, holdenarb.org

International Rose Test Garden, Washington Park, Portland, Ore., washingtonparkpdx.org/attractions

Huntington Botanical Gardens, San Marino, Calif., huntington.org

Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland, Ore., portlandchinesegarden.org/

Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pa., longwoodgardens.org

Magnolia Plantation & Gardens, Charleston, S.C., magnoliaplantation.com

Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo., mobot.org

New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York, nybg.org

San Francisco Botanical Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, sfbotanicalgarden.org

U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory, Washington, D.C., usbg.gov

Wave Hill, Bronx, N.Y., wavehill.org

Winterthur Garden, Winterthur, Del., winterthur.org

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