Sherwood Gardens

Every spring time hundreds of people from around Baltimore come to Sherwood Gardens to see the 80,000 tulips in bloom.  The gardens, which was a part of the Guilford estate which belonged to the founder of The Baltimore Sun, originally was a pond until the land was developed in 1912 for housing.

Sherwood Gardens, as we know it today, was the hobby of John W. Sherwood who in the 1920s imported tulips from the Netherlands; today the gardens have become known as the most famous tulip garden in North America.  After his death the Guilford Association, along with some help from the City of Baltimore, take care of the tulip purchase and maintenance.  While the tulips only bloom for a short window, the garden is filled with dogwoods, magnolias and flowering cherry trees; many of the plants date back to the 18th Century.

It definitely has an Alice in Wonderland feel and I will definitely be coming back to study here (probably this weekend).

I even got to sneak in a dance video (it is very hard to convince people you are not totally crazy and to take a video of you without an entire team in matching jerseys backing you up).