TODAY'S FLOWERS
from around the world can be viewed here:
http://flowersfromtoday.blogspot.com/
Every year Ottawa, capital of Canada celebrates the Canadian Tulip Festival, it is the largest festival in the world, and in 2009 has been expanded to every day of the three week period instead of just on the weekends.
The Ottawa Tulip Festival 2010 will be held from May 7 to May 24, 2010. Over these three weeks, as the tulip gardens come into bloom, concerts,
lectures, and other performances - both indoor and out - are held as the city
celebrates the arrival of warmer weather.
The festival had its start in 1945 when Princess Juliana of the Netherlands presented Ottawa with 100,000 tulip bulbs in appreciation for the safe haven offered to exiled Dutch royalty and the role
Canadian troops played in the liberation of the Netherlands. In the years following 1945, the tulips became a symbol of international friendship as more and more events were planned around their blooming.
http://www.tulipfestival.ca/
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