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A tulip festival near Vancouver is now open and you can take photos with 5 million blooms

It's the perfect way to celebrate spring! 🌷

A woman with a sunhat walking through colourful fields of tulips. Right: Pink tulips in a field.

A woman walking through the tulip field at the Abbotsford Tulip Festival. Right: Tulips at the Abbotsford Tulip Festival.

Courtesy of Robyn Bessenger, Oleg Mayorov | Dreamstime
Senior Writer

Along with cherry blossoms, tulips are in full bloom in Vancouver and that means the return of one of B.C.'s most popular flower festivals.

You can now visit a massive tulip field on B.C.'s Lower Mainland that has over 5 million colourful blooms.

So if you love flowers and a great photo opportunity, this is the event for you!

The Abbotsford Tulip Festival, hosted by Lakeland Flowers, is back for another year with over 28 acres of tulips.

Visitors will see 100 varieties of tulips as they wander along the walking trails.

Another highlight includes specialty varietals imported from Holland.

"Every year we improve the visitor experience and this year we added more photo opps, tulips, and specialty varieties. From the end of May and on, our guests can expect to see more blooms right until early September," Nick Warmerdam, farmer and owner of Lakeland Flowers, said in a press release.

This year visitors will get unique photo opportunities with baby grand pianos, canoes, giant Dutch wooden shoes, bicycles and swings.

The Lakeland Flowers website says the festival is the largest summer floral experience in Canada.

Along with tulips, the festival will feature other flowers during the spring and summer months.

The festival starts with tulips in April and May and will feature 32 acres of peonies and lavender in May and June. The festival ends with 40 acres of sunflowers in August.

You can either pack a picnic to bring with you to the festival or enjoy food from several food trucks on-site.

There will also be live music at the festival on certain days.

You can check out the food and entertainment line-up on the Lakeland Flowers website.

While there are no U-pick fields, visitors can buy a bouquet to take home.

Abbotsford Tulip Festival

Price: Tickets range from $8 - $25

When: From April 6, 2024

Address: 3663 Marion Road, Abbotsford

Why You Need To Go: The Abbotsford Tulip Festival is one of B.C.'s largest flower festivals, offering fields filled with millions of tulips.

Lakeland Flowers website

This article's cover image was used for illustrative purposes only.

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    Asymina Kantorowicz (she/her) was a Senior Writer for Narcity Media. She has worked at Yahoo Canada, CTV News Vancouver Island, CTV News Channel, and CHCH News. Over the past eight years, she took on various newsroom roles and helped produce award-winning newscasts. Loving the fast-paced environment of any newsroom, she helped cover stories like the 2016 royal visit to Victoria, the 2019 B.C. manhunt, and provincial elections. She had an MA in journalism and a BA in media from Western University. She moved from Toronto to Victoria a few years ago and loved being close to the ocean.

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