MidApril we made our annual trek about an hour north to see the tulip fields. Since we've visited two previous years (here, here & here), I thought perhaps I wouldn't "need" to take many pictures this year. Wrong! The colors are so amazing that I felt compelled to try to capture the color, combinations, textures and overall feeling of beauty. Click on an image so you can see a "slide show" with larger pictures.
The Roozen family business, Washington Bulb Company, Inc., "of growing Tulips, Daffodils and Irises is the largest in the world, covering Skagit Valley with more than 1000 acres of field blooms and 16 acres of greenhouses. Each fall, the three-acre show garden is planted with around three hundred thousand spring-flowering bulbs, providing a gorgeous display of color during the early weeks of spring." (lovelaconner.com) The Roozen family started growing tulips in Holland in the mid1700s.
In this picture I'm standing in the gardens looking across the road to the fields filled with tulips in full bloom. It’s difficult to describe the sight of acre after acre of color.
The three acre display garden was awesome. The plantings were beautiful with wonderful combinations of colors and textures. Everywhere you looked there was more color, more beauty, more variety. I could have stood in the gardens and fields for hours - just soaking in the awesomeness of all the colors.
This was a cloudy day.
On a clear day you can see snow covered mountains in the distance.
The fields of daffodils just couldn't compare with the tulips
Every once in a while you'd see something like this
two yellow flowers in a field of red
or below
tulips growing in a tree - bloom where you are planted
This river of grape hyacinth (Muscari) was planted next to one of the fields
red, white & blue
look at these colors
see the combinations of colors, textures, & types of flowers
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