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Admission is $12 for adults and $6 for kids 3-15 years old.

The Floriade is an international garden festival and exhibition that is held every ten years in the Netherlands.

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Be sure to visit one of the tulip growers, RoozenGaarde or Tulip Town (Tulip Town will be opening early, Easter weekend) If your main goal is to see tulips in a garden setting, RoozenGaarde is the cream of the crop.

Speaking of horror, as far as the field flowers go, after the Tulip Festival ends, they chop off all of the tulips' heads. “We have to do that, it's for disease prevention and it promotes the growth of the bulbs,” said Brent. Once those bulbs get nice and big, they're pulled out of the ground and sold to customers.

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival is the largest tulip festival in the USA by acreage of tulips, number of farms, and days of blooms. It is held annually in April and features fields of tulips, display gardens, experiences, and events. Historically, the tulip was a symbol of paradise on Earth.

Different tulip varieties have different bloom durations: Early Blooming Tulips: These often last for about a week or slightly more. Mid-Season Tulips: They can last up to two weeks if the weather is favorable. Late Blooming Tulips: Some late bloomers are known to last up to three weeks or more.

Bloemencorso, Netherlands and Belgium

Bloemencorso week sees flower parades and festivals held in many towns and regions in The Netherlands and Belgium to welcome spring. Though Bloemencorso Zundurt is the largest flower parade in the world, and the displays are made entirely by volunteers!

Waltz through acres of red, pink, yellow, purple and orange tulips at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival in upstate Washington. The valley, about an hour north of downtown Seattle, has the largest tulip fields in North America and the festival is massive with more than 350 acres of tulips.

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Our family loves this festival, there is so many activities and sites to see. Nothing disappointing the way this festival is set up. The family fun run is well worth the effort to attend as well as the Tinkerbell party for the kids. We will not miss going to the festival in the future.

Every year, enormous festivals are held around the world to celebrate tulips in bloom. The magnificent display at the Keukenhof Gardens in Holland is perhaps the most famous, but there are also wonderful festivals held each spring in Turkey, Canada, India, the United States, and more.

Deadheading. After flowering, tulips sometimes develop seedheads. These are removed (deadheading), cutting off the stalk just above the leaves. If you are growing specialist tulips, some can be grown from seed, so you may wish to leave seedheads until they've ripened.

A kopmachine looks like a lawn mower on stilts. It is designed to cut and remove tulip flowers. If left in place, the flowers take energy that would otherwise go to the bulbs. When tulips start to bloom in the fields, Dutch bulb growers do their best to cut off the flowers as quickly as possible.

The Netherlands has the perfect climate and soil for growing tulips. Many, many people visit the Netherlands to see them in bloom, so it is good for the economy. Also, they export the tulips to countries around the world.

Michigan residents: THERE IS NO DAY PASS. An Annual Passport is $17 at the Park. Out of State Residents: Annual Pass $34 or Daily Admission $9. Holland State Park is famous for its expansive, sandy beach on Lake Michigan and Lake Macatawa.

The area is called 'Bollenstreek'. The Bollenstreek is located behind the North Sea dunes, between the cities of Amsterdam, Leiden, Haarlem and The Hague. There are countless flower fields full of tulips, daffodils and hyacinths.

The museum and shop are open daily from 10 am to 6 pm, except King's Day (April 27) and Christmas Day (December 25). Museum admission is €5 for adults, €3 for students and €10 for families. I amsterdam cards and Holland Pass are accepted. No admission is necessary to visit the museum shop.