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I have hundreds of similar pics on my iPad, iPhone, and camera from my last visit.

I just wished I could have been allowed in when fewer people or no one was around.

In reply to Casper

Why go to Europe when a visit to Ottawa will be better.

The Canadian Tulip Festival (French: Festival Canadien des Tulipes; Dutch: Canadees Festival van de Tulp) is a tulip festival, held annually in May in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The festival claims to be the world's largest tulip festival, displaying over one million tulips, with attendance of over 650,000 visitors annually.Large displays of tulips are planted throughout the city, and the largest display of tulips is found in Commissioners Park on the shores of Dow's Lake, and along the Rideau Canal with 300,000 tulips planted there alone. Millions of tulips set the stage for a celebration of authentic art, cultural, historic, culinary and family tulip experiences at various official venues across the capital.

History

In 1945, the Dutch royal family sent 100,000 tulip bulbs to Ottawa in gratitude for Canadians having sheltered the future Queen Juliana and her family for the preceding three years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War. The most noteworthy event during their time in Canada was the birth in 1943 of Princess Margriet at the Ottawa Civic Hospital.

The maternity ward was temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government, thereby allowing Princess Margriet's citizenship to be solely influenced by her mother's Dutch citizenship. In 1946, Juliana sent another 20,500 bulbs requesting that a display be created for the hospital, and promised to send 10,000 more bulbs each year.

Ottawa Tulips Pictures

Please!!!

Nothing compares after you visit Keukenhof.

if Keukenhof is a 100, Ottawa is a 10.

But do visit Ottawa.

In reply to Casper

I have visited both places and Ottawa wins

Keukenhof is too pristine , to immaculate ,doesn't
look natural.

Ottawa on the other hand has more to offer ..
Take the train visit Maniwaki, drive to Val de Bois,
Quyon, as you cross the bridge to Quebec.

See the Gatineau Park and all of Ottawa Experimental farms
and Parkways .