Ottawa. I thought it was about time to explore my own capital. What better time to visit during the Tulip Festival! Ok, my visit was just at the end of the festival.

Meet the designer behind the blooms of Ottawa’s Tulip Festival. What do vanities, war history and petal thickness have in common? A lot, if you’re in charge of 700,000 tulips.

With hundreds of tulips already in bloom in Ottawa and Gatineau, theCanadian Tulip Festival will make it abundantly clear that it’s tuliptime in the nation’s capital.

This weekend marks the opening of the Canadian Tulip Festival — the best-known and most colourful flower festival in the country. The event's origins are a part of Canadian history.

Almost a year ago, as COVID-19 receded into the background, a quarter of a million people showed up during the Canadian Tulip Festival’s opening weekend to take in the flowers, sights and sounds ...

Of those, 23 beds are a part of the Canadian Tulip Festival with more than 700,000 bulbs planted this season. “We design, plan, manage and maintain all the flower beds,” Liu said.

Every May, Ottawa becomes a mesmerizing kaleidoscope of colours. Visitors from around the globe come to see the brilliant flowers at the Canadian Tulip Festival, but they are also taking part in a ...