Hi Tayla…
Having a lot of one thing in a photograph can be a good, and it can also be bad. There are dozens of tulips in this image and you are right… there are almost too many elements for the eye to really make sense of it all..
That being said, when there are too many elements in a photograph, often the solution is to simply add another element… one that is totally different.
The classic example is to have a kid standing in the front of the picture looking cute (I did call it that classic example!). Why this often tends to work is that we look at the kid… then our eye scoots off and has a tip-toe through the tulips and then we come back to the main subject again. We can do this as often as we like and we know our eyes are not going to get lost.
Now in this image I think you could have gone with a narrower aperture. Rather than taking the photo at 1/1000th of a second at f4 (200 ISO), I think you should have used a slower shutter speed and aimed to use 1/125s at f11 (200 ISO) or even bumped your ISO to 400 and used f16 at 1/125s.
This would have given you more depth of field and the background would have become a more intrinsic part of the photograph. Chances are as the background was brought into focus, one or two of those elements in the background would present themselves as an interesting subject for maintaining focus within the whole picture. Perhaps next time!
Cheers, Anthony