https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival#History

The Canadian Tulip Festival (French: Festival Canadien des Tulipes;
Dutch: Canadees Festival van de Tulp) is a tulip festival held annually
each May in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The festival claims to be the
world's largest tulip festival, displaying over one million tulips,[1]
with attendance of over 650,000 visitors annually.[2] Large displays of
tulips are planted throughout the city, the largest of which are often
in Commissioners Park on the shores of Dow's Lake, and along the Rideau
Canal with 300,000 tulips planted there alone.[3]

The festival is a cultural and historical aspect of the special Canada–Netherlands relationship, having originated with commemorative donations of tulips to Canada from the Netherlands for Canadian actions
during World War II, when Canadian forces led the liberation of the
Netherlands and hosted the Dutch royal family in exile.[4][5][6] The Netherlands continues to send 20,000 bulbs to Canada each year (10,000
from the royal family and 10,000 from the Dutch Bulb Growers Association)

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Ed P wrote on 6/7/2025 6:37 PM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival#History

The Canadian Tulip Festival (French: Festival Canadien des Tulipes;
Dutch: Canadees Festival van de Tulp) is a tulip festival held annually
each May in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The festival claims to be the
world's largest tulip festival, displaying over one million tulips,[1]
with attendance of over 650,000 visitors annually.[2] Large displays of tulips are planted throughout the city, the largest of which are often
in Commissioners Park on the shores of Dow's Lake, and along the Rideau
Canal with 300,000 tulips planted there alone.[3]

The festival is a cultural and historical aspect of the special Canada–Netherlands relationship, having originated with commemorative donations of tulips to Canada from the Netherlands for Canadian actions during World War II, when Canadian forces led the liberation of the Netherlands and hosted the Dutch royal family in exile.[4][5][6] The Netherlands continues to send 20,000 bulbs to Canada each year (10,000
from the royal family and 10,000 from the Dutch Bulb Growers Association)

How much is the tariff on tulips this year?

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On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 19:37:49 -0400, Ed P <esp@snet.n> wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival#History

The Canadian Tulip Festival (French: Festival Canadien des Tulipes;
Dutch: Canadees Festival van de Tulp) is a tulip festival held annually
each May in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The festival claims to be the
world's largest tulip festival, displaying over one million tulips,[1]
with attendance of over 650,000 visitors annually.[2] Large displays of >tulips are planted throughout the city, the largest of which are often
in Commissioners Park on the shores of Dow's Lake, and along the Rideau
Canal with 300,000 tulips planted there alone.[3]

The festival is a cultural and historical aspect of the special >Canada–Netherlands relationship, having originated with commemorative >donations of tulips to Canada from the Netherlands for Canadian actions >during World War II, when Canadian forces led the liberation of the >Netherlands and hosted the Dutch royal family in exile.[4][5][6] The >Netherlands continues to send 20,000 bulbs to Canada each year (10,000
from the royal family and 10,000 from the Dutch Bulb Growers Association)

Dave's wife's culturally and historically obliged to visit this
festival.

--
Bruce
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On 2025-06-07 7:37 p.m., Ed P wrote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival#History

The Canadian Tulip Festival (French: Festival Canadien des Tulipes;
Dutch: Canadees Festival van de Tulp) is a tulip festival held annually
each May in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The festival claims to be the
world's largest tulip festival, displaying over one million tulips,[1]
with attendance of over 650,000 visitors annually.[2] Large displays of tulips are planted throughout the city, the largest of which are often
in Commissioners Park on the shores of Dow's Lake, and along the Rideau
Canal with 300,000 tulips planted there alone.[3]

The festival is a cultural and historical aspect of the special Canada– Netherlands relationship, having originated with commemorative donations
of tulips to Canada from the Netherlands for Canadian actions during
World War II, when Canadian forces led the liberation of the Netherlands
and hosted the Dutch royal family in exile.[4][5][6] The Netherlands continues to send 20,000 bulbs to Canada each year (10,000 from the
royal family and 10,000 from the Dutch Bulb Growers Association)

We have a growing local business in this area, tulip farm festivals. It started just a few years ago. There are a lot of Dutch immigrants here
and they have opted into the idea of planting massive fields of tulips
and charging people to come and visit them. There us the added bonus of
getting to cut 10 tulips with each admission ticket. It started off
about 5 years ago with one farm and about 5 acres of tulips. Now there
are at least a half dozen and one of the farms is at least 20 acres. I
am amazed at the number of people that come to see them.

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