Your parents deserve a vacation. Not the kind you used to take, redolent of vinyl seats and Dad's cigar, you in the back seat whining about your sister, who crossed The Line onto your side, and who won't stop breathing so loud . The world's largest flower garden is Keukenhof Garden in Holland, with 70 acres of blooms, many of these tulips. Though considered typically Dutch, the tulip is actually an Asian mountain flower not at all suited to grow in Holland's flatlands.
Kids can learn from botanical gardens, too.
For more floral lore, visit FTD's Web site . Send a virtual bouquet of flowers through Blue Mountain . They need to go somewhere full of fresh air and candidates for friendship. Boring, they say. If you're not stuck on the bus, you're cooped up in some stupid museum with the world's biggest ball of string.