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Tag Archives: ottawa tulips
Rain, Rain, Go Away
Royal Standard My hostas just love the rain and it looks like we may be getting six rainy days in a row so I bought grass seed today and spread some around.
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa
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Carleton University Greenhouses, Ottawa, Ontario
After taking some more photos today at the Dow’s Lake Tulip beds, I drove around to the greenhouse complex at Carleton University. I was hoping to find out the dates for the annual butterfly display. I found out that the … Continue reading
Canadian Tulip Festival, Ottawa Ontario – Day 5, May 10th, 2011
I bit of heat and sunshine can do wonders for a tulip bed and that is certainly what is happening for the tulips that have been planted around the flower beds of Dow’s Lake. Still plenty left that haven’t started … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa
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Canadian Tulip Festival – Day 2
The sun was shining today . At least, for awhile it was. That was all that was needed for some of the tulip beds to start showing their colours. Being Saturday, it meant that there were quite a few people … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Home and About, Ontario, Ottawa
Tagged boardwalk, Canada, canadian soldiers, canadian tulip festival, colours, Commissioner’s Park, Dow's Lake, Dow's Lake Pavilion, food stalls, full bloom, government of the netherlands, magnolias, Ontario, ottawa tulip festival, ottawa tulips, question mark, red tulips, second world war, shapes, tulip beds, yellow tulips
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Magnolias and more.
Today was the official first day of the Canadian Tulip Festival. Someone forgot to tell the tulips:-). Those tulips that might have been opened in the morning when the sun was shining, were closed in the afternoon as the clouds … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa
Tagged Agricultural Exxperimental Farm, agriculture, arboretum, blossom, blossoms, bud stage, Canada, canadian tulip festival, Commissioner’s Park, Dow's Lake, Dow's Lake Pavilion, experimental farm, flowers, followers, forsythia, magnolia, magnolias, Ontario, Ottawa, ottawa tulip festival, ottawa tulips, parking lot, Primrose, Primula, Rock Garden, scilla, Spring, spring flowering bulbs, sunlight, tulip beds, tulips, yellow flowering bush, yellow flowers
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Canadian Tulip Festival starts May 6th, 2011
There are about 2 million publicly planted tulips in Ottawa just waiting to entertain residents and tourists alike when they burst into bloom. This year’s tulip festival takes place in Ottawa from May 6-23, 2011. My blog entries from Day … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Home and About, Ontario, Ottawa
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