The Skagit Valley tulip series ties into existing Skagit/farm catalog (cross-sell)
— — ten million tulips against a single line of mountain.
Not only on a wall.
“Flat delta farmland north of Mount Vernon, an hour above Seattle, where Dutch growers settled the diked Skagit River fields in the 1940s. For three weeks in April the rows go red and yellow and white in long straight bands against the foothills of the North Cascades. The rest of the year the same ground grows seed potatoes and spinach. The color belongs to one short month. from the studio
The Skagit Valley tulip series ties into existing Skagit/farm catalog (cross-sell), on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
The Skagit Valley sits between Mount Vernon and La Conner in Skagit County, Washington, on the diked delta of the Skagit River about 60 miles north of Seattle. Roozen family growers from the Netherlands established Washington Bulb Company on these fields in 1947, and the operation now farms more than a thousand acres of tulips, daffodils, and iris bulbs — the largest tulip grower in North America. RoozenGaarde and Tulip Town are the two public display gardens during the bloom.
Peak bloom runs roughly the first three weeks of April, though the exact window shifts a week in either direction depending on the winter. The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, founded in 1984, runs through the whole month of April so visitors arriving early or late still find something. Bulbs are lifted from the fields in June, dried and graded through the summer, and replanted in October — the same ground rotates through seed potatoes and spinach the rest of the year.
RoozenGaarde and Tulip Town both charge admission during festival and post real-time bloom maps on their websites — the rows that are open shift week to week. Weekdays are calmer; weekend traffic on State Route 20 backs up for miles by mid-morning. The town of La Conner, six miles west, makes a good base for the day, with the Museum of Northwest Art and a row of waterfront restaurants on the Swinomish Channel.