More than 30,000 tickets for Tulips for Tapping were snapped up by eager sightseers within hours of going on sale.

Norfolk's tulip fields are ablaze with colour (Image: Chris Bishop) A woman enjoys the spectacular sight (Image: Chris Bishop)

And the fields didn't disappoint as the first visitors poured in to see them.

More than 9m bulbs have been planted on a sandy, sloping field at Hillington, near King's Lynn.

A view across the tulip fields (Image: Chris Bishop) A woman stands in a sea of red tulips (Image: Chris Bishop) Some 11 different varieties are being cultivated at the site by growers Norfolk Tulips and PS And JE Ward.

Vivid rows of yellow, red and purple........

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