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Behold the Canada 150 tulip!!

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Behold the Canada 150 tulip, the official tulip of Canada’s 150th anniversary.

The National Capital Commission partnered with the Kingdom of the Netherlands to create this beautiful tulip with an elegant white bloom and red flames which bears a striking resemblance to our maple leaf flag.

During the sesquicentennial celebrations in spring 2017, 300,000 Canada 150 tulips will be showcased in Ottawa's flower beds, and thousands more will bloom in community gardens across Canada.

You can get some for your garden now at Home Hardware.
 
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Fun fact: The first tulip beds in the Capital were planted in 1945, when the Netherlands sent 100,000 tulip bulbs as a postwar gift of gratitude for the role that Canadian soldiers had played in the liberation of the Netherlands.

“The tulip represents gratitude and the long-standing friendship between Canada and the Netherlands. Blooming in the colours of Canada’s flag, Canada 150 tulips will bring both pride and joy to gardens and communities from coast to coast to coast.” — His Excellency Cees Kole, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

The deeper history behind it is even more interesting:

In 1945, the Dutch royal family sent 100,000 tulip bulbs to Ottawa in gratitude for Canadians having sheltered Princess Juliana and her daughters for the preceding three years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, in the Second World War.

The most noteworthy event during their time in Canada was the birth in 1943 of Princess Margriet to Princess Juliana at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. The maternity ward was declared to be officially a temporary part of international territory, so that she would be born in no country and would inherit only her Dutch citizenship from her mother. In 1946, Juliana sent another 20,500 bulbs requesting that a display be created for the hospital, and promised to send 10,000 more bulbs each year.
 
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OntarioVanMan said:
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Behold the Canada 150 tulip, the official tulip of Canada’s 150th anniversary.

The National Capital Commission partnered with the Kingdom of the Netherlands to create this beautiful tulip with an elegant white bloom and red flames which bears a striking resemblance to our maple leaf flag.

During the sesquicentennial celebrations in spring 2017, 300,000 Canada 150 tulips will be showcased in Ottawa's flower beds, and thousands more will bloom in community gardens across Canada.

You can get some for your garden now at Home Hardware.
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Gotta say Mrs. Fast went crazy over this....now where the hell and I gonna find some??


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fastman_1 said:
Gotta say Mrs. Fast went crazy over this....now where the hell and I gonna find some??


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I am going to Canada first week of October and I will be looking for so let me know how many you would like if I if I can find some I'll bring some back and I can post them to you
 
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