You have about a week to check out the tulips in the Public Garden in all their glory
And join in on the city-wide trend of posting flower photos on social media.
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The tulips at the Boston Public Garden are here. Which means the photos of the tulips at the Boston Public Garden are here, too.
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Can you really blame Public Garden visitors for taking so many snapshots? The flowers are nothing if not picturesque, and they’re a well-welcomed sign that we’ve been ushered into springtime.
The tulips have sprung in the Public Garden since the 1840’s, according to Anthony Hennessy, the Superintendent of Horticulture for the City of Boston. That’s way before Instagram.
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You might wonder: How interesting can it be to look at dozens of pictures of the same exactly flowers? Wouldn’t it get repetitive?
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Somehow, no. The Instagrammers of Boston have come up with enough angles, frames, and filters to make many of the photos distinct. (Though, yes, some of them look the same.)
You have until about the end of next week to add to the canon of Public Garden tulip Instagram posts, according Hennessy.
The tulips—which are numbered at about 23,000 this year—can last up to three weeks after blooming when city weather is rainy and cool, as it has been recently in Boston.
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Fortunately, the garden is close to the MBTA—the Park Street and Arlington stations, to be exactly—and plenty of restaurants are nearby, including Bistro du Midi, Cheers, and the Parish Café. So you can make a day of it.
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Do it for the ‘gram.
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