Tulip Garden Video Download
Vida Hubbert
The festival began in 1929 when the City of Holland saw its first crop of 100,000 tulips bloom. Since then, Holland has blossomed each spring with millions of tulips. Celebrating our 94th year in 2023, Tulip Time has grown over the decades to be so much more than a flower festival. Today the splendor continues, with fun events and activities for all ages.
For the third year, Dutch horticulturist Ibo Gülsen will create the floral immersion experience: Tulip Immersion Garden - The Journey of the Tulip. Walk among 50,000 raised tulip beds and get the photo opportunity of a lifetime. The tulips are arranged in three stunning displays and tell the history of the tulip, from its first cultivation in Turkey, to its rise to popularity in the Netherlands and, finally, to its celebration here at Tulip Time in Holland, Michigan.
We are a working farm and have limited ADA accessibility in the outdoor sections of Tulip Town. We have gravel paths to get to the trolley and around our display gardens. Guests with walkers might have some difficulty on the gravel. The bloom field is often muddy and not accessible for walkers and wheelchairs.
It's tulip time in the Skagit Valley, WA! We now have some brilliant early blooming tulip color in our fields and tons of daffodils as well! View updates and make sure to bloom with us on Instagram and Facebook for updates!
RoozenGaarde is world renowned spring destination featuring a 7 plus acre display garden + over 50 acres of tulips and daffodils in our field. The display garden is annually redesigned and replanted by hand with over 1 million bulbs and nearly 200 different tulip, daffodil, and other flower types. RoozenGaarde's large flower fields are filled with tens of millions of bulbs creating endless rows of breathtaking color. Visitors from across the world travel to the Skagit Valley to see the amazingly colorful patterns created throughout the garden and marvel at the rainbow of colors flowering throughout our field at RoozenGaarde.
UPDATE (April 1, 2024): Here is what we know now: we have some brilliant early tulip color flowering. We expect to be extremely colorful AT LEAST the first three weeks of April - and hopefully throughout the entire month. However, we cannot exactly predict out that far without an exact forecast. Stay tuned for updates! And please follow us on social media for additional updates @roozengaarde.
The garden display always precedes and outlasts the color in our fields because it has a more sheltered environment (areas blocked from the wind, sunlight, etc) and is filled with many very early and late blooming tulip types. We almost always have lovely color in the garden into at least the first few days of May - if not longer.
We recommend purchasing tickets in advance to help us provide the best possible experience for our visitors. Online ticket holders will have expedited entry lanes to the garden and a contact free entry experience. Walk up ticket purchases will also be accepted this spring.
Admission is $15 per person for weekdays and $17 per person on Saturday/Sunday. Walk ticket purchases are available at a $17 weekday rate and $18 weekend rate. Children ages 2 and under are free. Admission includes free parking and access to our 7-acre display garden and endless rows of tulips and daffodils in our fields. RoozenGaarde also includes a gift shop and an exception offering of amazingly priced fresh cut tulips.
The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is an event celebrating all things Skagit Valley that centers around the blooming of our tulips. RoozenGaarde grows the vast majority of the tulips planted in the valley and is the preeminent destination for spring visitors during the month of April. The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival runs from April 1 - April 30 each spring, but our tulips bloom according to Mother Nature. Some years they begin blooming as early as mid-March and other years they last a week into May.
This year we expect the best of the bloom to last through May 1st BUT we will have some lovely color in our garden through Mother's Day. How long the tulips last in our field is tbd and weather dependent. RoozenGaarde is open year round and features daffodils in bloom before the tulips and a smaller amount of summer dahlias and zinnias.
We lay thousands of meters of sand on the roadways throughout our fields and make every attempt to create the best possible pathways, but RoozenGaarde is still a working farm, and paved walkways do not exist. Gravel pathways and grass can be found throughout the garden, but some low-lying areas can still become soggy during periods of prolonged rainfall. Boots are always recommended unless it is more of a summer than spring in April.
Yes, we do. The first row of our parking lot is reserved for handicap and assisted parking. This parking will fill up on nice weather days, but we will still attempt to park individuals as close as possible when possible. Please keep in mind that RoozenGaarde covers a large space and will require some moving around to see all the tulips. However, we do have some areas just inside the garden entry that are full of color!
RoozenGaarde is mostly tulips, gravel, grass, and soil in the fields. We also lay thousands of meters of sand on our walkways through the fields. Ease of accessibility is often determined by weather, but your wheelchair or device should also be considered. After a prolonged period of nice weather our grass and field pathways can become quite firm and compact, but pathways with crushed gravel will remain unchanged in rain or sun. Lots of rain can lead to soggy grass and muddy fields which may take days to dry.
Accessibility for wheelchairs and walkers can be challenging, but we also have many individuals who visit our farm each year using one or the other. This year's field location is a rather short walk, but the field is big. Benches will be placed along the walkway. The 5-acre display garden has an abundance of color in a much smaller space and does not require as much movement to enjoy.
The tulips bloom whether it rains or shines so RoozenGaarde is open whether it rains or shines. Take advantage of the rain and come on out for a visit... you might find you have RoozenGaarde almost all to yourself!
Bulbs can be pre purchased for the fall during your spring visit. You may also purchase bulbs online at www.tulips.com. All our tulip and daffodil bulbs are currently planted in our fields and will flower this spring. After flowering, the plant feeds the bulb growing beneath the soil until early summer when we begin harvest. We then sort, size, and quality check the bulbs before sending our customers the biggest and best bulbs for your home and garden in the fall. We plant our garden with the same bulbs we send our customers, so we know they are the best bulbs available!
They sure will. Tulips are well hydrated when picked from our fields. Each stem will seal after picking to prevent loss of moisture. Traveling to Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, or Miami? No problem. We ship fresh cut flowers across the country throughout the year. Even after 24 hours in transit these stems are still farm fresh. Heck, you'd have to pick some out of your own garden to find something fresher.
Give your stems a fresh cut about an inch from the end (like cutting celery) and then place in cool water to hydrate. Remember that tulips placed in cooler environments will last longer than those in warmth or direct sunlight. Consider placing your tulips outside overnight (it the temps stay above freezing) to prolong their bloom.
"Roozen" means rose in Dutch and is our family last name. We've been growing tulips in Holland since the early 1700's and in the Skagit Valley for over 75 years. "Gaarde" means garden. Put them together and you get rose garden. Just a bit ironic since we happen to be a world renown destination for tulips!
Yes, we are! By the Roozen family. William Roozen emigrated from Holland to the Skagit Valley in 1947 and five years later had saved enough money to purchase five acres of land and start his own farm. Fast forward 75 years, 10 kids, 36 grandchildren, lots of great grandchildren and millions upon millions of tulips and here we are - still growing tulips on the same land William Sr first purchased decades ago... both the farm and the family have grown a bit since then. There is a good chance you'll find a few of them somewhere amongst the tulips on any given day but especially during the spring.
Fresh cut flowers are only half of what we do at Tulips.com. We also have a great selection of tulip bulbs, daffodil bulbs, hyacinth bulbs, and other specialty flower bulbs for spring blooming. Customers can place bulb orders from February to December for the biggest and best flower bulbs available anywhere - including Holland. The mild maritime climate of the Skagit Valley allows our bulbs an extended growing season to mature and grow to larger sizes - growth that is supplemented by the rich topsoil of the valley. Need proof? Check out the blooms that the Tulips.com bulbs produce at our RoozenGaarde display garden. After our fields of flowers have been topped, the bulbs are allowed to mature and multiply, and are then harvested. Tulips.com then selects the largest bulbs from each year's crop so you can grow the same beautiful tulips and daffodils in your own home gardens.
Wheelchair accessibility: The tulips have been planted in a hay field, so the ground is a farm field with some lumps and bumps. The walkways are mostly a grass/weed mixture, but still with lumps and bumps. If it has recently rained, the ground turns a little mushy. The parking area is rough grass. From the tulip fields, the ground slopes down to the festival area with the food trucks, picnic tables, weekend music, etc. The slopes are within ADA guidelines. Because the ground is rough, some people may need assistance getting their wheelchair back up the hill. We have made every effort to make these lumpy fields as wheelchair friendly as possible, but you must decide on the capabilities of yourself or the person you are attending.