Skagit Valley Tulip Festival & Seattle Cherry Blossom Festival
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Check out the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival & Seattle Cherry Blossom Festival with us! Today, we're going to check out this festival and all the history surrounding it, then we'll head back down to Seattle and we'll be checking out the cherry blossom trees at the Washington Arboretum Park and also the University of Washington quad. Like much of Washington's population, the cherry trees and tulips aren't native to this state. Nevertheless, they've both become cultural staples of the region and continue to grow every year. There's a lot to see so let's get started.
Now we're in Tulip Town, it's one of the main attractions for the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. One of the most striking sights here at Tulip Town is this windmill right here and this windmill is a result of the owner of Tulip Town, his name is Tom De Goede, and in 2003 he visited his family's home in Holland. This windmill is an exact replica of his family's windmill in Holland.
How did a festival like this end up in Skagit, Washington of all places? Well, in 1893 an English immigrant named George Gibbs bought $5 worth of tulip bulbs and he planted them on Orcas Island. A couple of years after he planted them, he dug them up and realized the massive potential for tulip bulbs in the Pacific Northwest region.
In 1899, Gibbs contacted the United States Government about growing tulip bulbs in the area and the U.S. Government said okay, we're interested, so in 1905 they shipped him 15,000 bulbs directly from Holland and that experiment was so successful that the U.S. Government set up their own 10 acre parcel in Bellingham strictly to grow tulip bulbs.
The Bellingham Tulip Festival ran from about 1920 to 1930. The Great Depression came along and kind of stopped the festival, so what the growers did is they moved from Bellingham further down to here in Skagit where we have the festival now.
For many years local growers displayed their tulip bulbs in showcase gardens and then in 1984 the Mount Vernon Chamber of Commerce established the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Initially, it was a three-day festival and now it's kind of morphed into a month-long event where you got sporting events, a street fair, and you've got art displays throughout the area.
We're here now at Roozen Garden, a famous flower and bulb shop and also one of the major sponsors of the tulip festival here in Skagit, Washington. Roozen Garden was started by the Roozen family and the Washington Bulb Company in 1985. Their business of selling tulips, irises, and a number of other flowers is the largest of its kind in the world. Fresh cut flowers are available for purchase or for shipment anywhere in the United States year round. Roozen Garden is truly one of a kind and much more than a simple flower shop.
We are now heading back into Seattle and we are going to check out the Washington Park Arboretum and the cherry blossom trees, see if they're blossoming there. We are in Seattle's Washington Arboretum Park and behind me, you can see a nicely blooming cherry blossom, so how did these cherry blossom trees get to Seattle? How did they get to the state of Washington? They are not a native plant to here.
Well, in 1912 the Mayor of Tokyo, Japan gifted 34 cherry blossom trees to Washington. He also gifted a number to other states but Washington got 34 and originally those 34 were planted right here in Washington Park Arboretum. Then in the 1960s, 31 of those trees were moved to the Quad and moved to the University of Washington that we'll take a look at in this sequence also, but this is kind of where it all started.
Throughout the park, there are these cool descriptive plaques that give you a little bit of the history of how the trees got here and just the history of the botanical gardens in general. If you're a fan of a little bit quieter area, not quite as crowded as the University's Quad, this is a great place to come.
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This scenery is incomparable and indescribable .
Deep emotion grew into my heart ,
It was the time of supreme bliss .
See the song 'ye kahan aa gye hum' its an old Bollywood song with such scenary
I love translucent pink petals. Cherry trees are casting a pink reflection on the water. A beautiful display of soft pink is just a marvelous miracle!❤️❤️
So, nice and beautiful ❤❤❤
Simply beautiful ! I am glad I get to this every year !
Wow. Very beautiful tulips 🌷 and cherry 🍒 blossoms
It's a very pretty time of year for Tulips and Cherry Blossoms here in Washington!!
I'm in love with Seattle, gardens and music
I grew up in Cali ,been living in mount Vernon for about 5 years now and I’m 22 years old ultimately my bday is on April 17 and I just love it when the tulips blossom here
beautiful video, thank you.
I miss Washington and all it's beauties and food!
Sadly Seattle has become a cesspool of crackheads and homeless people. Most of the busniesses in Seattle have shut down due to extremely high crime in Seattle.
Tulip town. I miss it.
Wonderful
How far is it from 🌷 tulip garden to Washington College?
I heard that there’s a cherry blossom festival when does that normally take Place?
☁️☁️🍀🍀🌷🌷🐎🐎TULIP MANIA ☁️☁️🍀🍀🌷🌷🐎🐎
When is the best time to come to see the fliwers
I mean www.tulips.com
Beautiful. What month was this filmed?
Thank you! We're glad to hear you enjoyed it. We shot this video last year in April and had a ton of fun exploring all the different farms :)
Great! Heading up there ending of April for my birthday. Can’t wait to see Seattle! Thank you very much.
@@ReasonableNews can we cover both tulip festival & cherry blossom if we come in mid of April ?
Wonderful