Tesselaar Tulip Festival is held in
Silvan, Victoria
Silvan is a town in Victoria, Australia, located 40 km east of Melbourne, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area. Silvan recorded a population of 1,323 at the 2021 census.
Silvan marks the halfway point between B ...
every spring since 1954. It has become one of iconic tourist attraction in
Victoria, Australia
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Au ...
with more than 120 varieties of tulips are shown on a 55-acre farm.
This tulip farm was initiated by a couple of
Dutch immigrants, Cees and Johanna Tesselaar. They arrived in Melbourne at 1939 and started to grow
tulips
Tulips (''Tulipa'') are a genus of spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes (having bulbs as storage organs). The flowers are usually large, showy and brightly coloured, generally red, pink, yellow, or white (usually in warm ...
,
gladioli
''Gladiolus'' (from Latin, the diminutive of ''gladius'', a sword) is a genus of perennial cormous flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae).
It is sometimes called the 'sword lily', but is usually called by its generic name (plural ''g ...
and
daffodils
''Narcissus'' is a genus of predominantly spring flowering perennial plant, perennial plants of the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. Various common names including daffodil,The word "daffodil" is also applied to related genera such as ''Ste ...
on their land. After purchasing a bigger land in Silvan, they grew more tulip bulbs and it attracted people to stop by on their property and admire their fields. At 1954, Cees and Johanna decided to publicly open the farm with silver coin donation for Red Cross Australia. In 2017, around 900,000 tulip bulbs are planted using modern machinery and 80,000 of bulbs still planted traditionally by hand. This
tulip festival
Tulip festivals are held in several cities around the world, mostly in North America, usually in cities with a Dutch heritage such as Albany, New York, Ottawa, Ontario; Gatineau, Quebec; Montreal, Quebec; Holland, Michigan; Lehi, Utah; Orang ...
has been evolved to include music, food and wine festival to attract more visitors during the spring season (September - October).
In 2020 the Festival was cancelled, for the first time, due to
COVID-19 lockdown rules.
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References
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Flower festivals in Australia