Annual Door County Festival of Blossoms Spotlights Orchards, Wildflowers and Special Events from April 30 – June 6 | Door County Style
Annual Door County Festival of Blossoms Spotlights Orchards, Wildflowers and Special Events from April 30 – June 6
Posted on 03. Apr, 2010 by Staff Reporter in Festivals and Events
The 17th annual Door County Festival of Blossoms is a 5-week long celebration of blossoming beauty framed by more than 300 miles of scenic Lake Michigan shoreline.
Spring blossoms at Eagle Bluff Lighthouse, one of ten lighthouses in Door County, are part of the annual Door County Festival of Blossoms taking place from April 30 - June 6, 2010.
Spring blossoms at Eagle Bluff Lighthouse, one of ten lighthouses in Door County, are part of the annual Door County Festival of Blossoms taking place from April 30 - June 6, 2010.
For the past 17 years, residents and business owners on this bucolic peninsula have planted more than 2.2 million daffodil and tulip bulbs in public displays and personal gardens. Since officially being christened in Holland in 2003, the Door County USA daffodil has added its presence to the spring bloom. At the same time, Trillium, native orchids and other wildflowers spread like a colorful blanket through open meadows and forests.
When the county’s renowned cherry orchards and apple trees spring to life each May, the brilliance of their delicate and sweet-smelling blossoms takes the county by storm. Early estimates show cherry blossoms beginning in the southern part of the county during the first week of May and apple blossoms beginning 5-7 days later. Blossoms tend to spread northward up this 70-mile long peninsula about 10 miles per day. Door County has around 2,000 acres of cherry trees and approximately 500 acres of apple trees.
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