Tulips 'bring joy' and raise vital funds for hospice
Tickets to view the tulips help raise £500,000 for a west Norfolk hospice
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More than 30 acres of fields carpeted in tulips will help raise £500,000 for a hospice.
The fields near Sandringham, Norfolk, have been planted with nine million bulbs and ticket sales to see the flowers will raise money for Tapping House hospice in Hillington, King's Lynn.
Tapping House provides free care to adults in Norfolk and North Cambridgeshire living with life-limiting illnesses and support for their carers, families and friends.
This is the fourth year of fundraising for the hospice by Belmont Nurseries and its director Mark Eves said: "The amount of pleasure it gives so many people is just amazing."
The flowers are grown for their bulbs which are harvested three weeks after blooming and exported
Tapping House chief executive officer, Nikki Ellis, said the hospice needed £6m to run its services annually.
She said the fields of flowers "really epitomises what we do in hospices, it's about bringing joy to people's lives".
Listen: 9.3 million bulbs in bloom for Tapping House
The fields of bulbs have previously featured in the movie, Wicked
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