Formerly known as the Chilliwack Tulip Festival, the popular annual event has relocated to Agassiz, BC. The new Harrison Tulip Festival is in full bloom running approximately four weeks until May 5 with a staggering 10 million bulbs.
Harrison Tulip Festival
The new Harrison Tulip Festival is, in fact, a homecoming for the BC farming family who pioneered the province’s most beloved flower festivals. The Onos family pioneered floral agritourism in the Fraser Valley in 2006, when they launched Tulips of the Valley on Seabird Island just east of Agassiz.
After 10 highly successful years there, they shifted the festival to Chilliwack, on leased land, where the Chilliwack Tulip Festival first bloomed in 2017 and the Chilliwack Sunflower Festival in 2018. Since then, the family has acquired its own farmland in the Harrison River Valley, in Agassiz and flower enthusiasts flocked to the stunning new location last summer, for the Harrison Sunflower Festival. Kate Onos-Gilbert describes the move as, “returning to our roots where the flower magic first bloomed.”
What can you see at the Harrison Tulip Festival?
This is the 18th annual tulip festival organized by the Onos family, and it promises to be spectacular, with 10 million bulbs
, including 50 tulip varieties, 15 kinds of double daffodils, and a dozen varieties of hyacinths.
There are dozens of hyacinth varieties on display at the Harrison Tulip Festival.
There are dozens of tulip varieties on display at the Harrison Tulip Festival.
Pink tulips dance in the sunshine at the Harrison Tulip Festival.
As well, a spectacular two-acre show garden features mature fruit and nut trees, flowering shrubs, and grassy pathways lined with thousands of tulips, hyacinths, and fritillaria, a new bloom that promises to be the belle of this year’s festival. To top it off, Mount Cheam acts as the stunning backdrop to it all.
Visitors can create family and group portraits with photo opportunities, including swing sets, antique tractors and horse carts, vintage bicycles, a 1950s convertible, a 1965 Airstream trailer, and raised platforms that make staging photos easy.
Two food trucks will be onsite daily offering food for purchase, including authentic Dutch stroopwafels that cleverly evoke the tulips’ storied homeland. A farm store also offers souvenirs, fresh-cut and potted flowers, and refreshments for purchase.
When is the Tulip Festival?
The Harrison Tulip Festival is on now until May 5, creating endless opportunities for capturing spring photos, memories, and experiences while tiptoeing “around” the tulips.
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