The gardens only open in the spring displaying
a powerful burst of colour and providing an incredible seasonal display of tulips, crocuses, daffodils and other flowering plants.
Other important contributors to action painting include: Mark Tobey noted for his White Writing style
of calligraphic gesturalism; Franz Kline, an artist whose works include
colour field compositions as well as vigorous gestural work, sometimes compared to gigantically enlarged fragments
of Chinese calligraphy); Robert Motherwell (in his series entitled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, and his
powerful black and white paintings); Cy Twombly (in his gestural works based on calligraphic, linear symbols) and Adolph Gottlieb (noted for his abstract surrealist series including Pictographs, Imaginary Landscapes and
Bursts).