We are not quite a month away from the big Tulip Festival in the Skagit Valley. This festival, beginning April 1, is now famous in this region and it draws photographers and admirers from all over. The tulips in their full splendor are most amazing to see and are in the La Conner and Mount Vernon areas. They gets less publicity than the tulips but the Skagit Valley is right now ablaze with daffodils. The tulips are the main show but the daffodils are earlier and they are splendid in and of themselves. Soon the heads will be cut off and the growers will harvest the bulbs and sell those to gardeners all over the world. Many of the tulip bulbs grown in the Skagit Valley end up being sold as Holland bulbs. Many of the farms are owned by people with Dutch names. Thanks for stopping by, Steven L. Smith
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Steven,
Lovely shot, we have many dutch growers here also. Holland seems to have some of the best stock when it comes to orchids, Hawaiian plants, and other flowers. We have talked to an orchid grower and he was telling us that there is a large community of plant growers of Dutch orignin settled in the US. It is in their genes, and we are delighted with their results...Hope you put up a picture of the Tulips, All the best
Steve, you have finally posted a picture more Daffy than Nutsy!
Deja veux!
Oh Wow! Thems a lot of flowers...
Do they give off a fragrance? I don't remember daffodils or tulips being real fragrant.
Steve: It never hit me that Holland daffodils would be grown anywhere but in Holland. Ummmm... I wonder what other tricks they've got up their sleeves. Beautiful pictures, Steve. Way cool.
Howdy and evenen there Steven
That sure is a mighty big field of daffodils. It sure would be soming to see up close.