May 6, 2015

Tulips, flowers, and trees are blooming at Sherwood Gardens and people are enjoying their beauty. Playing, photographing and looking at the flowers are some of the activities taking place in the gardens on warm spring days.

: The Guilford Association purchased Sherwood Gardens one year after the death of John Sherwood in 1965. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: This work-in-progress painting by Debra Moffitt of Halethorpe captures her vision of Sherwood Gardens. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Standing out among the rest is a variegated yellow tulip in a sea of red at Sherwood Gardens, which covers six acres. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: The cup of a tulip is one of several examples of nature’s beauty at Sherwood Gardens. According to the Guilford Association website, several plants in the garden date back to the 18th century. The tulips were imported from the Netherlands by John W. Sherwood who created the gardens in the 1920’s. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: According to the Guilford Association, the gardens were, “created in the 1920’s by John W. Sherwood, local petroleum pioneer and conservationist.” (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Grape hyacinths bloom at Sherwood Gardens. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Red azaleas form the backdrop for a white tulip at Sherwood Gardens. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: In the 1800’s, A.S. Abell, founder of The Baltimore Sun, owned the property that is now known as Sherwood Gardens. John W. Sherwood created the gardens in the 1920’s. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Flowering cherry blossom trees (pictured) dogwoods, wisteria and magnolias complement the tulip gardens at Sherwood Gardens. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: lexa Lyons, 3, explores Sherwood Gardens. According to the Guilford Association, “Approximately 80,000 tulip bulbs are planted annually along with other spring flowering bulbs.” (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Alexa Lyons, 3, gets her picture taken by photographer Jessica Carr amid the tulips at Sherwood Gardens. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Alexa Lyons, 3, left, brings a missing flip-flop to her sister Juliet Novack, almost three, as they play among the blooming flowers and trees at Sherwood Gardens. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Ava Douglass, 15 months old, from Nottingham, looks at the tulips in bloom at Sherwood Gardens. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Finley Manekin, 5, left, takes a picture of his cousin, Kluane Beill, 2 1/2, among the flowers in bloom at Sherwood Gardens. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Finley Manekin, 5, from Baltimore, takes pictures of the flowers in bloom at Sherwood Gardens. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Narissa Boodoo, 19, a fine arts student Morgan State University from West Baltimore is pictured among the tulips at Sherwood Gardens. A freelance model, Boodoo poses for her friend and Morgan cinematography student, Nathia Williams, 22 (not pictured) from northeast Baltimore, and another friend, Adrian Houstone, 23, also a Morgan student and a freelance videographer. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

: Eric Dickman, 4, from Owings Mills, kicks a ball alongside flowers blooming flowers and trees at Sherwood Gardens. He came to the gardens with his aunt and grandmother. (Algerina Perna/ Baltimore Sun)

: Posing for their moms at Sherwood Gardens are from left: Lila Friedlander, one year; Jocelyn Marcus, sixteen months; Zachary Levinson, thirteen months; Reid Pfeffer, one and a half; and Dylan Attman, one and a half. Moms and children got together for a picnic. Afterwards, their moms took their pictures together. (Algerina Perna/Baltimore Sun)

Enjoying spring days at Sherwood Gardens

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