A spectacular display of nature's colors and textures is once again drawing tourists to Tamaqua's North Ward for a glimpse of the botanical wizardry of John "Wes" and Doris Kehlor, 405 North Lehigh Street.

Known as the Tamaqua Tulip House, the Kehlor home becomes the community's biggest tourist attraction for two weeks every year, showcasing several thousand tulips accompanied by complementary flowers and plants.The display is created anew each year through the love and devotion of the homeowners.This year's tulip symphony is a study in pink and white, with a subtlety of other hues and shades to complete the palette.In addition to the mainstay tulips, the Kehlors routinely dabble in a variety of begonias, daisies, geranuiums, petunias, impatiens, verbina, sweet alyssum, delphenium, foxglove, fuschia, bacopa, millionbells, stocks, mums, columbine, azaleas, violas and ranunculus.With springtime kicking into high gear, the home has been attracting photographers and admirers since last week, drawing onlookers from the Lehigh Valley and beyond.Visitors say the Cape Cod-style home reminds them of an enchanted fairyland house from childhood fables.The Kehlor home has been featured in several national "beautiful home and garden" magazines over the years and was the site of a Schuylkill County formal garden tour several years ago.