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Save The Dates For These Spectacular 2024 Oregon Flower Festivals
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Rainbow-like stripes of vibrant tulips as far as the eye can see. White, lavender, deep purple, and even rare yellow and blue lilacs perfuming the air. Acres of fluffy cotton candy-colored peonies as big as salad plates. And 500 varieties of irises in just one charming display garden.
March kicks off an incredible season of flower festivals in the Pacific Northwest that keeps rolling well into September.
Whether you’re a local or are just visiting for a weekend, you don’t want to miss these spectacular celebrations of PNW blooms.
March 22 – May 5: Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival (Woodburn, OR)
With cheery red-and-white windmills and 40 acres of Technicolor tulips, Woodburn, Oregon could be mistaken for The Netherlands during the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival, the first area flower festival of the year.
The 40th annual family-friendly celebration includes a children’s play area, food vendors and picnic tables, and rides for young and old alike on trams, hay wagons, and hot air balloons. Don your rubber boots to stroll through the fields, and don’t leave without picking up a few bouquets of just-cut tulips, and potted flowers to plant in your home garden.
Photographers looking to capture the splendor of the vibrant flower fields set against the backdrop of Mt. Hood can visit before the crowds: the special sunrise ticket grants entry from 5 to 7 A.M.
Before you go, check out Wooden Shoe’s online field report to check the current status of the blooms.
April 20 - May 12: Lilac Days at Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens (Woodland, WA)
Time-travel back to the Victorian era at Lilac Days, which takes place at an 1880s farmhouse and national historic site located in Woodland, Washington, about 30 minutes north of Portland .
The sweet farmhouse and its surrounding country gardens are the former home of Hulda Klager, who immigrated to the U.S. from Germany with her family in 1865 when she was two years old, and eventually settled here. As a hobby, Klager started dabbling with hybridizing lilacs. By 1920, she’d developed so many new varieties that she began holding an open house each spring when the spring posies were in bloom. “The Lilac Lady” continued opening her home to flower aficionados for the next four decades, right up until her death in 1960 at the ripe old age of 96.
Today, volunteers from the local Lilac Society pay homage to Klager and the flower she dedicated herself to by maintaining her fragrant gardens brimming with blooms in colors including purple, white, and pink — plus less common shades of blue, yellow, and bicolor varieties.
May 1 - June 15: Adelman Peony Gardens’ Open House (Salem, OR)
See fields of pom-pom-like peonies ranging from pure white to deep burgundy with a visit to Adelman’s in Salem,
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