Tulip Season: Here Are 5 Ontario Farms Offering U-Pick Flowers

Tulip beds in front of Canada’s Parliament Buildings on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, where the gift of tulips from the Netherlands was first planted in 1945. Samira Bouaou/Epoch Times

Tulips are starting to bloom around Canada’s Capital Region, where nearly a million flowers will blossom in parks and gardens just in time for the Canadian Tulip Festival—one of the biggest in the world.

The festival attracts scores of visitors each year, having originated with a donation of 10,000 tulip bulbs to Canada from the Netherlands for Canadian actions during World War II.