Tulip Festival
Have you ever attended an event inspired by a flower? You might think if that sounds weird because you haven't heard about it before, but the truth is, an event where the flower is the inspiration behind it is happen in real life. Tulip festival is one of the examples.
Tulip Flower Inspired a National Event
Flowers are beautiful. We do not doubt it. A flower can reflect a human’s expression. That’s the reason why many people use flowers to deliver their feeling to others. Among the kinds of flowers over there, we believe almost all of you already familiar with this one. Yup!, tulip flower. A tulip that is well-known for its gorgeousness because of its petals that usually come in purple-colored, has been used for many occasions. You can find the appearance of tulip flowers anywhere, for example, in someone’s room or an event you’re being invited to. Besides the beautiful form it has, the tulip flower is also rich in meanings. It’s related to deep love, so many people use it as a present to their loved ones, for example, their lover. The deep love meaning behind it surprisingly is universal. That means you can gift it not only to your lover but to your parents and siblings as well. The versatility of tulip indeed brings popularity for this flower that grows well in the United States. The popularity of the tulip later makes it becomes a flower that inspired an event, a festival that is being held for a reason. Later, people call it Canadian Tulip Festival.Read Also: A story Behind Tulip Tree
Canadian Tulip Festival
Canadian Tulip Festival
The interesting part when we talk about the flower is that the topic is never-ending. Talking about a flowering tulip is not an exception, we will find many facts about this beautiful flower. For example, there’s a festival that inspired by tulips.
Yes, you don’t read it wrongly. The flower festival might familiar to you because, in Japan, people use cherry blossom as an event that gathers people all over the country. Later, we call it Sakura Blossom.
Sakura Blossom is the period where cherry blossom trees bloom beautifully, creating a heartfelt yet romantic atmosphere. That’s why it’s the most anticipated season people in Japan wait for the most.
Moving to another continent, Japan is not only the country that holds a flower festival. As we mentioned more above, there’s the Canadian Tulip Festival that happens in this world. Can you guess where this event takes place? Yes, you’re right! It’s from Canada.
It’s been a long time since Canada held the Canadian Tulip Festival, so it’s not the hot stuff that happens currently. The festival occurs with a beautiful meaning behind it, similar to the cherry blossom festival that Japan holds.
Canadian Tulip Festival occurs for the reason of strengthening friendship and is a part of the spring celebration event because tulips bloom beautifully around May and June. It’s kind of similar to Sakura Festival, right?
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History of Canadian Tulip Festival
History of Canadian Tulip Festival
You might be wondering what’s the story behind the tulip festival in Canada. Well, here is the thing you need to know if the Canadian Tulip Festival happened firstly in 1953. It always takes place in Ottawa, the nation’s capital of Canada that has the largest population which includes over 1,4 million people that live in the city.
Ottawa’s first met with tulip that later become the icon of the city was during World War II where Princess Juliana from the Netherlands took refuge in Canada along with her young daughter, Princess Beatrix and Princess Irene.
The stay in Canada continued as she gave birth to her third daughter, Princess Margriet. During this time, Princess Juliana had an allowance to hold Dutch nationality. Ottawa was the city that witnessed how Princess Juliana impacted Ottawa until she finally could return to the Netherlands in 1945.
Regarding her return to the Netherlands after a long period of staying in Ottawa, Canada, Princess Juliana wanted to thank Ottawa along with its people for accepting her. Later, she gifted Canadian people with many things, including 100.000 tulip flowers.
One of the iconic momentums in Canada where the Princess gifted tulip flower that its amount was quite many later inspired “Tulip Legacy”. It marks a strong relationship between Canada and the Dutch royal family that consistently sent tulip bulbs to Canada’s capital every year.
In other words, besides its meaning of friendship, Canadian Tulip Festival occurs to represent the relationship between Canada dan the Netherlands.
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Canadian Tulip Festival Shows Variety of Tulip Colors
Variety Tulip Flowers
Tulip is one of the flower types that have many types. It makes tulip has a different kind of colors. The appearance of the tulip is indeed beautiful.
Have you already familiar with a tulip? Would you see a variety of tulips with many colors it has? If so, you can consider visiting Canada to witness how big the tulip festival, because this event showcases a variety of tulip colors.
The variety of tulip colors creates a quite beautiful yet appealing scenery of the Canadian Tulip Festival. Planted by National Capital Commission, Ottawa’s official gardener, and from residents, the tulip festival in Canada displays over 300.000 flowers.
If you think Canadian Tulip Festival only showcase flower, you’re wrong. This event also presents things that are related to the tulip flower. For example, you can find five-foot painted tulip sculptures, artwork with floral patterns, or you can also enjoy concerts and activities for children. Interesting, right?
As the event that regularly occurs every year, in spring of 2020, Canadian Tulip Festival marked the 75th anniversary of the relationship between Canada dan the Netherlands. Unfortunately, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the event must lose its joy because visitors were unable to witness the gorgeousness of tulips through their eyes. The event that year was online based where a virtual garden tour was presented for visitors.
During that heavy times, festival staff also sent a bouquet of tulips for health care workers at local hospitals in Canada. 
