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Tag Archives: ottawa tulip festival
A year in review – 2011
A year in review – 2011 It’s a damp, cold and drizzly day outside (December 13, 2011 – Kanata, Ontario – +3C and forecast for freezing drizzle overnight) so I decided to start our year end review a bit early … Continue reading
Posted in Home and About
Tagged 165 Benjamin Boake Trail decorations, 2011 year in review, amazon, astrophotography, Breeding Bird Survey, Butterfly Exhibit, Butterfly Show at Carleton University, chapters indigo, Christmas in Toronto, Christmas Lights, commercial publication, DIGI60 Ottawa Film Festival, exploring the world, Feeding the Chickadees, fireworks, fort niagara, freezing drizzle, French and Indian War, Frommers, Frommers Far & Wide - A Weekly Guide to Canada's Best Travel Experiences, garter snakes, geographic distribution, Great Canadain Chill, image world, interlake, Italy, john wiley and sons, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, kanata ontario, Kingdom of Osgoode, narcisse manitoba, NHL Hockey, nikonians, Noctilucent, noctilucent clouds, ogdensburg new york, Ottawa Bicycle Club Rideau Lakes Cycle TOur, ottawa tulip festival, pbase, photo views, Polar Bear Dip, Polar Bera Plunge Ottawa River, Royal Visit, snake dens, still image, stowe vermont, syracuse new york, track visitors, underground dens, volvo, volvo c70, wiley and sons
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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
Tagged canadian tulip festival, Checkered Daffodil, Chess Flower, Fritillaria meleagris, Fritillary, Frog-cup, grass seed, Guinea-hen Flower, hosta, hostas, Kanata, Leper Lily, Liliaceae., oak tree blossom, Ontario, Ottawa, ottawa tulip festival, ottawa tulips, photos, rain rain, rainy days, Royal Standard, Royal Standard HOsta, Snake's Head, Snake's Head Fritillary, sun, tulips, water droplets on tulips, wet tulips, white tulip
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Tulips, Tulips and More Tulips – Rideau Canal and Dow’s Lake, Ottawa, Ontario.
Thursday and the tulips are all ready just waiting for the weekend crowds.
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa
Tagged apeldoorn holland, Apple Blossoms, bike trailer, Blushing Aleldoorn Tulip, canadian tulip festival, Concord Fire Hydrant, Cycling path, cyclists, duck with green head, el nino, El Nino tulip, Fire hydrant, flower beds, Holland Beauty Tulip, large house, mallard drake, mallard hen, mallards, Monte Carlo tulip, multi-colored tulips, Ottawa, ottawa tulip festival, Pink Tulips, pinks, queen elizabeth drive, red and yellow tulip, red tulips, Rideau Canal, Rideau Canal World Heritage Site, rock phlox, side streets, tom pouce, TOm Pouce Tulip, tulip banner, tulip beds, Tulip macro, UNESCO World Heritage Site, weekend crowds, white phlox, Yellow double tulip, yellow tulips, yellows
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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
Tagged 2 million tulips, bloodroot, Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis, bloom, Canada, canadian tulip festival, Canadian Tulip Festival website, colours, Commissioner’s Park, daffodil, daffodils, Dow's Lake Pavilion, Festival canadien des tulipes, flower, flowers, forsythia, hybrids, les tulipes, Ontario, Ottawa, ottawa tulip festival, ottawa tulips, shapes, spring flowering bulbs, spring flowers, tourism, tourists, tulip, tulips, turkestan
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