Spring Blooms 06 09 09

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A pollen snackThe Red Cosmos flower, shown here in full bloom at a public garden in New Delhi, India, belongs to the sunflower family.

These flowers flaunt bright colorful disks gracefully balanced on long slender stems, and lacy foliage. It is a plant that's easy to

grow and thrives even on poor soil.

Flower towerCrocuses blossom at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, making

the monument more photogenic then usual.

Purple parkPeople stroll through a sea of crocuses in a park in Husum,

Germany. Those people may have 15th century monks to thank for the 4.5 million blossoms: According to a legend, those monks

planted the first crocuses there.

Butterfly kissesMonarchs rest on top of flowers at the Monarch Butterfly

Biosphere Reserve, near the town of Chincua, Mexico. While monarchs are not endangered, scientists say deforestation could

threaten their existence.

English gardenSnowdrops - celebrated as

a sign of spring - grow in front of The

Houses of Parliament in

London, England.

Trumpet playerA narcissus plant - more commonly known as the daffodil -

blooms in Tokyo, Japan.

Garden of EdenVisitors walk among the flowers inside one of the two biodomes

at the Eden Project near St Austell, Cornwall, England. The project - which opened in 2001 and has attracted over one million

visitors - showcases 100,000 plants from around the world.

Bird, meet blossomA Japanese white-eye

perches on a branch of a cherry blossom tree

at Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in

Tokyo.

Visitors get a water view of the cherry blossoms surrounding the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.

Pretty in pinkThe delicate pink flowers of the Corymbia "summer beauty" flowering

gum from the Myrtacae family are displayed in the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens.

Seeing redTulips are seen in full bloom in Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden

in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir.

Balancing actA worker gets a pretty view of spring blooms while cleaning a

river in Jakarta, Indonesia.

A dahlia in DelhiA photographer gets up close and personal with this full bloom Dahlia flower - part of the

sunflower family - in New Delhi, India.

Mustard passA Kashmiri Muslim woman carrying cow dung in a willow wicker, which is used as a manure in fields, walks past a mustard field in

Srinagar, Kashmir.

Delicate petalsRaindrops weigh down newly-opened cherry blossoms during the

National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C.

Color riotsVisitors photograph cherry blossoms and field mustards at a park in

Matsuda village, on the outskirts of Tokyo.

Bulbs to bloomsIndian tourists stroll in the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, during a seven-day Tulip festival. With

some 13,00,000 flowers, it is Asia's biggest tulip garden.

Merrily, merrily...People row boats as they enjoy warm spring weather and the cherry blossoms in full bloom at the Imperial Palace moat in Tokyo, Japan

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