Anyone in the Pacific Northwest or plans on being there in April, and you love bulb flowers, you definitely need to visit the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.
The huge commercial fiels of tulips and other bulb flowers should not be missed.
Having lived in various parts of the country with different spring flowers, my favorite spring flowers are daffodils. I also love hyacinths and lilacs for their smell. We really do not have many lilacs in CA. I really miss the lilacs. We had a grove of them at Cornell where I went to undergrad and I just remember walking through them one of the last nights before I graduated.
However, the CA poppies and the walnut and almond trees are blooming now and all are so lovely.