Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
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Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, Rain or Shine
Last week while enjoying our unintended staycation, we traveled north to the Skagit Valley for the Tulip Festival. The weather was fickle – it rained off and on, leaving dark gray clouds hanging low over the fields. But it didn’t matter, the flowers lit up the sky!
This year’s brochure described the event as follows:
“The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is a month-long celebration centered around the blooming of millions of tulips and our agricultural heritage. The festival is comprised of multiple display gardens, tulip fields, events and activities spread throughout our beautiful valley.”
All the pictures above were taken at the largest of the gardens, RoozenGaarde.
Sharing with Sunday Stills, #April Flowers.
~ Susanne
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Those displays are so impressive. It seems a shame that they have to be cut and sold. (I presume they are?)
Best wishes, Pete.
Actually, we get to see them at their best, after they bloom and die back they don’t look very good.
I googled and got this reply, ‘after the Tulip Festival ends, they chop off all of the tulips’ heads. “We have to do that, it’s for disease prevention and it promotes the growth of the bulbs,” said Brent. Once those bulbs get nice and big, they’re pulled out of the ground and sold to customers.’
I see. They sell the bulbs, not the cut flowers. Thanks for that. ☺
Best wishes, Pete.
I wasn’t exactly clear on it myself, so your asking made me look it up! 😊
Just as I remember them. Thanks. I believe t was a rainy off and on day when I visited them as well.
I’m glad you enjoyed them. 😊 They’re beautiful rain or shine!
Wow, such gorgeous displays of tulips, Susanne! We hope to visit one here in Portland area this week. Do tulips grow well in your neighborhood? I think ma y bulb plants grow well in Spoka e. Ifni can go this week, perhaps I can buy some bulbs to take home. Thanks for sharing and for the inspiring captures 🪻💐
You’ll love the one near Portland, Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival. 🌷
We were going to stop on the way back from Oregon but didn’t make it when our plans were upended. I’m happy we made it up to the Skagit. I usually grow tulips seasonally in pots since they don’t look great after they flower, but I do have neighbors who grow them.
That’s a good idea, I have some empty pots to plant some in.
Your photos are very beautiful, wow! ❤️😊
Thanks, John!
You’re welcome, Suzanne. 😊
Beautiful photos. I would have guessed you were in Holland. 🙂
Thank you! I’ve never been, but it reminds me of Holland, too. 🌷🌷
Beautiful! My tulips were digging out of the snow last week and are slow to get growing. You are lucky! Absolutely gorgeous!
Not much snow in these parts this year, but lots of rain. Daffodils and tulips both up and happy!
Stunning and breath-taking! 👏🏼 🤩
Thank you! I love visiting the Tulip Festival!
I can understand why! 🌷🌷🌷
That’s on my list to see. We’ve gone to the Wooden Shoe Festival in Woodburn, OR which is closer to where we live, but I’d love to get to the Skagit valley one.
I just found your comment in my spam folder, who knows why? I love both the Wooden Shoe Festival and the Tulip Festival in the Skagit Valley. Both are wonderful. 😊
You can’t beat the tulip festival for a show of color and those clouds provide a nice backdrop.
Thank you. I agree, sometimes the colors pop against a gray sky.
Wow, amazing flowers and beautiful images.
Thank you!
Those fields of tulips are fabulous and so vibrant, but it’s your close-ups of individual flowers I enjoyed most of all 🙂
Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed them!
We’ll take water in either form!
We have plenty of it here!.🌥🌨
So many lovely flowers 😍
Yes indeed! 😊🌷🌷
We went last year. It was freeeeezing cold! But we got some wonderful photos and had a nice day trip. Wonderful photos!
Thank you! Our spring weather is always iffy; this year has been awfully cold and rainy!