If you fancy Tulips then check out the ‘The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival’ from April1 – April 30. Perhaps you have never heard of it but every spring hundreds of thousands of people travel to this Pacific Northwest town to enjoy the celebration of spring as millions of tulips burst into bloom.

The Tulip festival in Skagit, WA is a showcase of Skagit Valley agriculture. The festival was officially inaugurated in 1984 by the Mount Vernon Chamber of Commerce. Members of the Chamber took note that this event drew thousands of people yearly to view the tulips in bloom and later decided to add events and festivities to enhance the visitors’ trip to the Skagit Valley. Tulip Festival is now its own entity and no longer under the Chamber of Commerce.

After 28 years the festival has welcomed people from across the United States and from around the world to admire the beauty of the flowers and to marvel at nature’s creation.

SlideShow of the Tulip festival

If watching these put you in the mood to send someone Tulips or add some Tulips to your living space see our floral partners tulip bouquets.

It’s Tulip season in the Netherlands. Several acres of land dedicated to the cultivation of tulips transforms a mundane landscapet  to brilliant streams of purple, yellow, blue, white, pink, red, and lavendar.  This Ducth Tulips farm provides a magnificant array of color as far as the eye can see.

After planting their bulbs in late October and early November,  these tulips are now ready to be picked and sold as cut flowers at florists and supermarkets. The Netherlands has produce more than nine million bulbs a year.

Globally more than three billion tulips are grown each year and two-thirds of them are shipped to the U.S. and Germany in time for the spring floral season.