Ann Badjura Photography
Abbotsford Tulip Festival near Vancouver, BC, Canada
More from the beautiful tulip fields at Lakeland Flowers in Abbotsford near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
About this photo: With the beautiful spring weather we've been having this last week, I had to go check out to the tulip fields. I went with a couple of my friends and we choose to visit the Abbotsford Tulip Festival near Vancouver, BC, Canada. There is one in Chilliwack and Harrison as well. We decided to go back to the one in Abbotsford operated by Lakeland Flowers which we visited a few times in the past as they have such beautiful tulip fields with so many gorgeous varieties and amazing colours! 🌷🌷🌷
There's 28 acres to enjoy 5 million tulips and about 100 different varieties.
I took this photo during our trip with some pretty rows of tulips and the mountains in the distance. I must say there is something about tulip fields and mountains which you don't see in the Netherlands.
~Camera Settings:
*Camera Model: Sony DSC-RX10M4
*Focal Length: 30mm
*F-Number: F/11
*Exposure Time: 1/500 sec
*ISO Speed: ISO-100
*Exposure Program: Manual (M)
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you like this photo!
Ann :-)
Some information about Lakeland Flowers:
Peter Warmerdam was born in 1927 in Sassenheim Netherlands. At the time, it was the home of the largest tulip bulb producing area in the world. In 1949, Peter arrived in Canada and worked at whatever jobs were available. His first job was working on a farm in Winnipeg. He moved to the West Coast in the early 1950’s spending some time in logging and eventually working full time in farming.
In 1974, Peter and his family purchased land in the Sumas Prairie Flats in Abbotsford where the farm currently stands. Peter chose the Sumas area because the sandy soil made harvesting bulbs easier and the steady winds kept foliar diseases at bay. The ownership in the business eventually transferred to his sons and he became fully retired from working on the farm at 87 years of age.
In its 47 years in Abbotsford, the farm has expanded from a small operation to a company of nearly 100 employees. Today, Peter’s son Nick owns and operates Lakeland Flowers which continues to grow millions of beautiful daffodils, tulips, peonies, and sunflowers each year.
The land they now farm once used to be known as Sumas Lake. From the Glacial Age, it sat in a basin cocooned between the Sumas and Vedder mountains. The 10 000 acre lake would triple in size each spring from water rushing in from the Chilliwack and Vedder River that fed into it. This would ruin crops and make transportation between Chilliwack and cities to the west impossible.
By the 1920’s, engineers drained the lake through the Sumas Lake Canal and into the Fraser River, effectively turning the lake into farmland. The soils from the lakebed are sandy to silty in composition and quite fertile, creating the area into an agricultural hub of the Fraser Valley.
Info from their website under "Our Story": www.lakelandflowers.ca/our-story/
Abbotsford Tulip Festival near Vancouver, BC, Canada
More from the beautiful tulip fields at Lakeland Flowers in Abbotsford near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
About this photo: With the beautiful spring weather we've been having this last week, I had to go check out to the tulip fields. I went with a couple of my friends and we choose to visit the Abbotsford Tulip Festival near Vancouver, BC, Canada. There is one in Chilliwack and Harrison as well. We decided to go back to the one in Abbotsford operated by Lakeland Flowers which we visited a few times in the past as they have such beautiful tulip fields with so many gorgeous varieties and amazing colours! 🌷🌷🌷
There's 28 acres to enjoy 5 million tulips and about 100 different varieties.
I took this photo during our trip with some pretty rows of tulips and the mountains in the distance. I must say there is something about tulip fields and mountains which you don't see in the Netherlands.
~Camera Settings:
*Camera Model: Sony DSC-RX10M4
*Focal Length: 30mm
*F-Number: F/11
*Exposure Time: 1/500 sec
*ISO Speed: ISO-100
*Exposure Program: Manual (M)
Thank you for stopping by and I hope you like this photo!
Ann :-)
Some information about Lakeland Flowers:
Peter Warmerdam was born in 1927 in Sassenheim Netherlands. At the time, it was the home of the largest tulip bulb producing area in the world. In 1949, Peter arrived in Canada and worked at whatever jobs were available. His first job was working on a farm in Winnipeg. He moved to the West Coast in the early 1950’s spending some time in logging and eventually working full time in farming.
In 1974, Peter and his family purchased land in the Sumas Prairie Flats in Abbotsford where the farm currently stands. Peter chose the Sumas area because the sandy soil made harvesting bulbs easier and the steady winds kept foliar diseases at bay. The ownership in the business eventually transferred to his sons and he became fully retired from working on the farm at 87 years of age.
In its 47 years in Abbotsford, the farm has expanded from a small operation to a company of nearly 100 employees. Today, Peter’s son Nick owns and operates Lakeland Flowers which continues to grow millions of beautiful daffodils, tulips, peonies, and sunflowers each year.
The land they now farm once used to be known as Sumas Lake. From the Glacial Age, it sat in a basin cocooned between the Sumas and Vedder mountains. The 10 000 acre lake would triple in size each spring from water rushing in from the Chilliwack and Vedder River that fed into it. This would ruin crops and make transportation between Chilliwack and cities to the west impossible.
By the 1920’s, engineers drained the lake through the Sumas Lake Canal and into the Fraser River, effectively turning the lake into farmland. The soils from the lakebed are sandy to silty in composition and quite fertile, creating the area into an agricultural hub of the Fraser Valley.
Info from their website under "Our Story": www.lakelandflowers.ca/our-story/