Orange City Tulip Festival organizers have been preparing for the event months ago, but the festival's namesake always requires the most work.

Tulips show their color in Orange City, Iowa, on Tuesday, in time for the 76th Orange City Tulip Festival, which runs Thursday through Saturday. These tulips stand in Windmill Park. Tim Gallagher ...

Gardeners began planting 15,000 tulip bulbs in New Orleans City Park, to make the south bank of Big Lake a palette of winter color.

The 83rd Annual Orange City Tulip Festival begins today and it will have something unique this year. A brand-new tulip has been developed, and although it is not in bloom, the bulbs are available ...

ORANGE CITY, Iowa (KTIV) - They are the star of the show at the Orange City Tulip Festival: the tulips themselves. John Buntsma is the man who oversees the flowers from bulb to bloom in Orange ...

In fact old time gardeners often plant the bulbs of F. imperialis 'Corona Imperial' in with their tulips, because the big, beautiful orange or yellow flowers smell like a fox and repel squirrels ...

This year, more than 18,000 tulip bulbs were planted around the Minneapolis home in shades of pink, orange, purple and yellow.

Soon, the Denver Botanic Gardens will see bulbs of pink, red, yellow, white and orange tulips bloom along the venue to bring in people for one of the most coveted attractions.

This year, that includes blocks of purple, pink, red, orange and yellow tulips. Bulbs will bloom throughout the gardens for a total of about 28,000.

Tulips and daffodils are the most popular spring flowering bulbs, but there are others. These flowers need to be planted in the fall to bloom the following spring.