TULIPS IN MAY IN CANADA

TULIPS are such a delight in our country.

I have photographed them every year.

Some in my garden and some in places I have visited.

The Tulip Festival in Ottawa 2011 on our 40th anniversary trip.

2012 beauties!!

At the Library in a huge bed of pink like a moving ocean.

Back to my garden.

Downtown.

Tulips help to highlight a garden on a city street.

A Harbourfront journey in downtown Toronto May 2016 to celebrate our 45th anniversary.

 After a rain.

 A little cluster daffodils crept into the picture.

2017 the 150th celebration of Canada.

 A perfect tulip showing the Canadian red and white for the celebration.

A trip to Niagara on the Lake. So many tulips along the street. 2019

 Orange in more than one shade.

 Oh the pink. Heavenly.

Of course another beautiful year for my garden too.

Then the Fall brought the idea to plant those bulbs for the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of Europe.

So planted in the Fall.

This year 2020 some came up in the garden just in time for the May 8th celebrations.

None in my pots because the squirrels ate them.

 A row of them with one lonely one blooming at the end. I am still waiting for the rest to bloom. But with a surprise May snowfall it was hard for them.

So tulips bring so much joy to the garden. Thank you to the Dutch for this beautiful flower.
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LIBERATION TULIPS FROM THE NETHERLANDS CELEBRATING 75 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

The Legion offered the purchase of tulip bulbs for the anniversary of Canadians liberating the Netherlands in 1945.

So I bought 3 packages of 15 each June 2019. They arrived in late August.

I planted a row in the main front garden, some by the door and several in planters in early November 2019.
The ones in planters did not bloom due to my squirrels digging them up and eating most of them.

Monitoring their growth during the end of April

The one close to the house grew first.

Then a group of three making the area very pretty.

They are really struggling all to bloom this May 8th- the 75th Anniversary of VE- Victory in Europe. However the cool May day kept all of them but one lonely one at the end from blooming. Doesn't it look like they are struggling to bloom!!

I have been checking every day for the last week hoping to get a nice row of tulips for this post. so the above picture is the best I can do.

It is a beautiful orange tulip. A Dutch colour.

The Sponsors for this project are listed above.

KLM- Royal Dutch Airlines

Canadian Tulip Festival/Festival Canadien Des Tulipes

Kingdom of the Netherlands- Royaume des Pays-Bas

Beavertails Pastry

NCC/CCN

De Vroomen Bulb Canada INC

The bulbs are a product of Holland grown from cultivated stock.

The goals was to plant 1.1 million tulips for the 1.1 million Canadians who served.

I did my little part of the project. I am now enjoying these lovely tulips in my garden. As it says on the package $1.00 from each bag sold goes to The Royal Canadian Legion. So helping veterans as well.
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