April 5, 2021 - Tulipless

 

Mount Vernon's Tulip Festival is held every April.  At this point the tulips are still a couple of weeks away from full bloom.  The daffodils are blooming though!  There was even a Great Blue Heron and an Egret posing roadside for visitors.

April 4, 2016 - Harvesting Blooms

Workers harvesting tulips at a Skagit Valley tulip field.

Each April more than a million people will come to see 300 acres of rich color in bloom on the Skagit River delta outside of Mount Vernon, a town of 30,000 an hour north of Seattle.

A Dutch immigrant, William Roozen, is the patriarch of a family that is key to the area's colorful harvest.  Roozen, means 'roses' in Dutch.  The family bulb growing goes back to the mid-1700s!