Spring has sprung: The Harrison Tulip Festival returns
The festival is located 20 minutes from Chilliwack in Agassiz
The Harrison Tulip Festival moved to Agassiz in 2024. (Tourism Harrison)
Spring is in full bloom at Agassiz’s Harrison Tulip Festival.
Canada’s largest tulip festival spans 45 acres, featuring more than 14 million flowers of 150 varieties.
“My family and I are excited to welcome guests to the fields for what marks our family’s 20th annual tulip festival,” festival founder Kate Onos-Gilbert said in a press release.
The Onos family used to just grow bulbs in Rosedale, B.C. They opened the province’s first tulip festival on Seabird Island — then called the Tulips of the Valley. The Onos moved the festival to Chilliwack in 2017, becoming the Chilliwack Tulip Festival, and then to Agassiz in 2024.
Onos Greenhouses grow about 85 per cent of the cut tulips sold across Western Canada.
“We plan to make this milestone year our biggest and best yet,” Onos-Gilbert said.
The Harrison Tulip Festival features sunrise and sunset yoga and Pilates sessions in the fields and a Bloom Bar to make bouquets and flower crowns, among other features.
The festival also has food trucks: Mr. Donair, La Poutinerie, and The Dutch Wagon, a new addition this year that serves Dutch street food.
The Harrison Tulip Festival is open until May 3. For tickets, visit onosfarms.tickit.ca. Tickets from April 29 to May 3 will open on April 28. Student tickets are $12.
