Tulip Town!

While in Washington, we took a trip to Tulip Town. We barely made it while the tulips were in bloom...they only bloom for about 3 weeks! Most tulip farms had already cut their blooms, but Tulip Town still had some fields that were uncut.
Tulips are huge in the Skagit Valley. In the mid 1920's there was an embargo placed on bulb imports by the United States government, so many growers in Holland began to send family members and friends to the US to establish farms and possible growing locations. Many of the Dutch growers had heard of the success in Washington State and came to the Pacific Northwest, settling mostly in Lynden, Washington. After discovering that Lynden winters were not suited for bulb growing, they began checking into the success they had heard about in Skagit Valley, about 30 miles south of Lynden.
The fields are beautiful. Too difficult to describe in words. The contrast of bright colors were like nothing we had ever seen!