To celebrate 70th anniversary of liberation of the Netherlands, end of World War II
Dutch-Canadian Friendship Tulip Gardens
Program
Thanks to the generous symbolic renewal of the 1945 Royal gift of 100,000 tulip bulbs by Veseys Bulbs, the Canadian Garden Council in collaboration with the Canadian Tulip Festival and the Canadian Nursery Landscape Association are proposing to celebrate this 70th Anniversary with the creation of a nationwide distribution of Dutch-Canadian Friendship Tulip Gardens.
In 1945 all the bulbs were planted in the Capital Region. This 2015 gift will distribute gardens of 700 bulbs each to 140 communities nationwide all connected to a symbolic garden of 7,000 bulbs in Canada’s Capital.
To mark the 70th Anniversary of the first bloom of the Dutch gift of tulips to Canadians, all of the 70th Anniversary Dutch-Canadian Friendship Gardens will be featured, in full bloom on this website in the spring of 2016. Associated with each garden gift would be a planting ceremony event, in the fall of 2015, embracing the community, telling the story and including local students, veterans and dignitaries.
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