Blooming spring

Architecture student Faye Oughton, 20, of Jarrow, South Tyneside, soaking up the sunshine amid the blooms the Alnwick Castle cherry orchard where 600,000 pink mistress tulips have created a sea of shimmering colour after the warmest April on record.

Architecture student Faye Oughton, 20, of Jarrow, South Tyneside, soaking up the sunshine amid the blooms the Alnwick Castle cherry orchard where 600,000 pink mistress tulips have created a sea of shimmering colour after the warmest April on record. Gardeners at the 100-year-old castle in Northumberland, made famous as the location of Hogwarts School for Wizards in the Harry Potter films, hope to have one million tulip bulbs planted in the orchard by next spring.

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