🌷Tulip Festival🌷 The #Canadian Tulip Festival was established to #celebrate the #historic #Royal gift of #tulips from the Dutch to Canadians immediately following the Second #World War as a #symbol of #international #friendship; you can see beautiful tulips in the yards of almost every house in Canada. The Ottawa Board of Trade led the first Canadian Tulip Festival in #1953 at the suggestion of world-renowned #photographer #MalakKarsh. Karsh is considered the #founder of the festival, and his

Tulip Festival Wynyard

How we do it 👇🏼🌷 Here at @fieldgateflowers we commercially grow tulips to sell as cut flowers at markets and to florists, throughout the spring season. But there’s a lot more that goes into it than you might think👇🏼 It’s a year round process… just next week we are off to Holland to pick the tulips we want for next year. We assess which will be the on-trend colours and based on feedback we’ve had from this years crop, we look for stem length, growing vigour and tulips that flower early to la