Skagit Valley, about an hour north of us, is home to the largest tulip growers in the country - Tulip Town and Tulips.com/RoozenGaarde. The owners of both farms came to this country from Holland around 1950.The Roozen family has been growing tulips, here and in Holland since the early 1700s. According to this article "... the largest single business in the world for growing tulips, daffodils, and irises is the Roozen family’s Washington Bulb Company located in Skagit Valley." In addition to over 1,000 acres of field flowers, the Roozen family has 16 acres of greenhouses. Skagit Valley has over 2,000 acres planted in tulips, iris, and daffodils.
RoozenGaarde's three acre display garden is planted with over a quarter of a million bulbs including 100+ tulip varieties plus daffodils, hyacinths, crocus, iris, and other specialty flowers.
The colors are amazing. The pink tulips look like peonies.
I look for these tulips every year. They are planted high up in a tree.
"Bloom where you are planted" comes to mind.
Daffodils and purple hyacinth - wonderful combination
red, white & blue (almost)
left - The daffodils were finished with their bloom
right - This field of dandelions even looked pretty
Fun to play with panoramas - trying to catch the scope of the color
bottom - Same woman on both sides - she was behind me when I started the picture and in front of me when I finished it!
Happy - that's how I felt as I gazed on this beauty
Happy & grateful for the beauty in this world
Individual petals were as large as my hand
Fringed edges
All these pictures were taken at RoozenGaarde
(interestingly this means Rose Garden, not tulip garden)
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You came away with some beautiful photos. I especially like the first and last ones. We visited too early, on a cold, windy day before most of the tulips were in bloom.
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