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Welcome Spring With The Biltmore Blooms Festival of Flowers!

March 6th, 2017 by Corey A. Edwards

What better way to celebrate spring than with a visit to Asheville for the 2017 Biltmore Blooms Festival of Flowers?

The 32nd annual Biltmore Blooms Festival of Flowers begins March 18th, 2017 and runs through May 25th. The festival follows and celebrates the blossoming schedule of the estate’s immense and wonderful gardens.

Visitors come to bathe in the gardens as they come to life with hundreds of thousands of bright and beautiful flowers. Biltmore’s gardens produce upwards of 100,000 tulips each spring, not to mention the orchids, daffodils, hyacinths, azaleas, roses and so much more!

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Biltmore Festival of Flowers

March 15th, 2013 by Katie Pate

The Biltmore Estate is an American version of Downton Abbey. The main house is a Châteauesque-styled mansion built by George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895. It is the largest privately owned house in the United States at over 175,000 square feet with over 250 rooms. The owners are still Vanderbilt descendants and today it stands out as one of the most prominent remaining examples of the Gilded Age, the time period after the Civil War, when the nation experienced huge economic growth.

The estate also has beautiful grounds and significant French and English style gardens.