Spring 2026 has flown by, leaving many photographic memories of floral beauty. I spent a lot of time taking pictures of the tulips that seemed to be everywhere on the New York streets and in our parks. And it wasn’t long before the dogwood blossoms, irises, magnolias and other spring flowers took my breath away, and set my camera a-clickin’. I shot photos in the Riverside Park community garden, Green-Wood Cemetery, Jamaica Bay and Central Park.
Tulip, Riverside Park Community Garden, April 26
A slide-show video gives you photos plus some video snippets of the incredible tulips I got to see this year, and follows with other spring flowers that obsessed me. I set it to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the Spring concerto’s first and third movements, performed by John Harrison.
Here are some of the special tulips I saw this year. To see more tulips featured in the video plus more spring flowers, visit Spring Flowers 2026.
Spring exploded with blooms on the magnolia and dogwood trees, and then I was gobsmacked by all the irises I got to see.
Iris, the Meer, Central Park, May 7
I often have Kurt Weill’s "It Never Was You” running through my mind as I walk in Green-Wood Cemetery, and Maxwell Anderson’s lyric “a flower hanging high in a tulip tree” has always enchanted me. On May 10, I got to see a tulip tree full of flowers and was able to photograph it while the song ran through my head.
Flower hanging low in a tulip tree, Green-Wood Cemetery, May 10
As we head into summer, I send you some more color: Bluebells and wild roses, violets, bleeding hearts, allium, fleabane, columbine. A bee and a skipper butterfly.
