Me: From stepping in gum to "Tip Toe-ing through the Tulips"!
We drove 1 hour north of Seattle on April 10th to see THIS!
Fields & fields of tulips. It's the Sagit Valley Tulip Festival!
We got lucky to see a flyer in our hotel elevator on April 9th that the Tulip Festival happens in April each year. It's about a two week window when the tulips peak & we were within that time. We couldn't pass up over a thousand acres of flowers!
I love RED!
But I also love YELLOW!
I love EVERY tulip color!
We stopped at three different tulip farms. The largest one being the Roozengaard Farm. Mr. Roozengaard, originally a tulip farmer in Holland, immigrated to Washington & starting farming tulips on 5 acres. The Roozengaard family now farms over 2,000 acres. Since his passing his children & grandchildren have carried on the family tradition.
PS: Did you see Bob in the above pic?
The Roozengaard Farm even had a windmill which reminded me of the windmill in my hometown, Elk Horn, Iowa. Though we weren't tulip farmers - haha!
The Roozengaard's had a wonderful garden area with interesting flower designs.
Lovely!
And some very unique shapes too. Gorgeous!
We were having tulip overload!!!!
And you probably are too!
Even so…I'll be sharing more tulip photos tomorrow. Lol.
I can't imagine that many tulips....do they ship them, and if they do how do they keep them alive and blooming????
ReplyDeleteThey do ship them and I believe that's where the Seattle Pike Market Place gets all their flowers. We should have asked more questions because I really don't know!!! :-/ You can buy the tulip bulbs for your favorite kind and color of tulip and a lot of other flowers. They have daffodil fields too but they peaked in March so were already gone.
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