Farms, merchants ready for Tulip Festival to bloom
No fooling: Tulip Festival is here
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March 31, 2021
TULIPS WILL BE IN BLOOM, SOON – Spring means tulips in the Skagit. They blossomed in this Washington Bulb Co. field on Young Road, looking north, in 2017. They were beautiful, as will be this year’s crop blooming in fields just outside of La Conner. This field has rotated out of tulips this year. – Photo by Nancy Crowell
Wind, rain, cold and hail made Sunday pretty miserable, but growers did not complain.
“Some daffodils were bent, but they will straighten out after a couple days of sun,” said Brent Roozen of the Washington Bulb Company.
At Tulip Town, early varieties on the outside of rows were damaged. Had the storm been two weeks later, said Andrew Miller, the damage could have been extensive.
Roozen, Miller and just about every business in the valley have high hopes for this tulip season.
“It’s gonna be awhile before things are normal, but after last year, anything looks pretty rosy,” said Roozen.
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