Michigan Avenue is the most famous and elegant shopping street in Chcago.
There are planters filled with flowers on both sides and in the middle; they are
changed regularly throughout the year. This is the Spring Tulip Display..
"Purple Delight" lily-like tulips and "Margarita" Double Red Tulip.
Dark purple and yellow tulips
Purple, red, and orange tulips
Silhouettes of "Purple Delight" tulips against the sidewalk.
"Margarita" double red tulips
"Purple Delight" lily-form tulips
Bed with purple and red.
Pale Pink Tulips
A visitor with pink tulips
Mix of tulips in center island of Michigan Avenue.
Center Island Mix. When the tulips finish, the bulbs are given to anyone who wants them.
Yellow and Orange Tulips. Notice the fence-railing which copies grills designed
by Louis Sullivan for Chicago buildings.
Visitor with yellow and orange bed of tulips.
Yellow, orange, and red tulips
Yellow, red, and orange tulips. We walked back and forth along Michigan Avenue.
The colors in the beds change constantly with the moving sun; the sun ON the flowers and the sun THROUGH the flowers create totally different sensations.
Orange and Red Tulips at a bus stop.
A restaurant along Michigan Avenue planted pink hydrangeas and tulips in its windows.
Pink tulips in front of restaurant window.
These are extraordinary, and very expensive, tulips which are grown only in Holland - the
"Dream Touch" variety. These are double whites with red edges. At the Botanic Gardens,
they had others in purple with white edges - exquisite.
"Dream Touch: double white tulips with red edges.
A model resting at the corner by the "Dream Touch" tulips.
A mixture of tulips and a pot with white alyssum and purple pansies.
A colorful bed of mixed flowers.
Tulips, alyssum, pale blue and deep purple pansies, and yellow ranunculus.
Yellow ranunculus, red tulips, blue and purple pansies.
Now whites come to be mixed with the reds and oranges. In general, the color scheme
started at the South end (Wrigley Building) and gradually got lighter - purple / red /
red-orange / orange / pale orange / yellow / green and white / pure white by the time
you reached Chicago Avenue.
Just around the corner on Ohio Street, three pots with hydrangeas and ivy and turquoise
colored branches. There were four sets of these.
Yellow, white, and orange tulips.
Yellow, white, and orange tulips and blue and white pansies.
Yellow and orange tulips.
Yellow and orange tulips.
Pale green-and-white tulips, cupped white tulips and fringed white tulips.
A mixture of white and green tulips; you can see the white frills here.
White and green tulips.
A bed of green and white tulips.
White and yellow tulips near Chicago Avenue.
White and yellow tulips.
White and yellow tulips.
Dark purple and yellow tulips
Purple, red, and orange tulips
Silhouettes of "Purple Delight" tulips against the sidewalk.
"Margarita" double red tulips
"Purple Delight" lily-form tulips
Bed with purple and red.
Pale Pink Tulips
A visitor with pink tulips
Mix of tulips in center island of Michigan Avenue.
Center Island Mix. When the tulips finish, the bulbs are given to anyone who wants them.
Yellow and Orange Tulips. Notice the fence-railing which copies grills designed
by Louis Sullivan for Chicago buildings.
Visitor with yellow and orange bed of tulips.
Yellow, orange, and red tulips
Yellow, red, and orange tulips. We walked back and forth along Michigan Avenue.
The colors in the beds change constantly with the moving sun; the sun ON the flowers and the sun THROUGH the flowers create totally different sensations.
Orange and Red Tulips at a bus stop.
A restaurant along Michigan Avenue planted pink hydrangeas and tulips in its windows.
Pink tulips in front of restaurant window.
These are extraordinary, and very expensive, tulips which are grown only in Holland - the
"Dream Touch" variety. These are double whites with red edges. At the Botanic Gardens,
they had others in purple with white edges - exquisite.
A model resting at the corner by the "Dream Touch" tulips.
A mixture of tulips and a pot with white alyssum and purple pansies.
A colorful bed of mixed flowers.
Tulips, alyssum, pale blue and deep purple pansies, and yellow ranunculus.
Now whites come to be mixed with the reds and oranges. In general, the color scheme
started at the South end (Wrigley Building) and gradually got lighter - purple / red /
red-orange / orange / pale orange / yellow / green and white / pure white by the time
you reached Chicago Avenue.
Just around the corner on Ohio Street, three pots with hydrangeas and ivy and turquoise
colored branches. There were four sets of these.
Yellow, white, and orange tulips.
Yellow, white, and orange tulips and blue and white pansies.
Yellow and orange tulips.
Yellow and orange tulips.
Pale green-and-white tulips, cupped white tulips and fringed white tulips.
A mixture of white and green tulips; you can see the white frills here.
White and green tulips.
White and yellow tulips near Chicago Avenue.
White and yellow tulips.
White and yellow tulips.
Visitor with blue hydrangeas.
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How unusual to have such a beautiful Shopping dtreet
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