Skagit Valley Tulips and Daffodils

Taken in the Skagit Valley north of Seattle in the fields of the bulb growers, this fallen daffodil flower caught my eye as I was attempting to capture the reflections of the daffodils in the water between the rows.

When I was back in western Washington recently I visited the Skagit Valley to see how the tulips and daffodils were coming along in the fields of the bulb growers. There were no tulips blooming yet and the daffodils were just starting. This is one of the few fields I found.

We were out last week Tuesday evening for a little while to see the tulip and daffodil fields in the Skagit Valley. The tulips were just starting to show color except at this farm where they were all in bloom. We concluded that they must have some way of forcing them en masse, but have no idea how.. These are display gardens so that is even more likely. In any case we stopped just befopre closing time and took a few pictures from the parking area since we did not want to pay the entrance fee for only a few minutes. The photo is my wife's.

This is where we were last Thursday. We had a break from all the rain and a beautiful sunny day and took advantage of it by driving down to the Skagit Valley to see the daffodil fields and to do some bird watching. We saw the flocks of Snow Geese and the Trumpeter Swans that winter in the valley as well as many raptors, Bald Eagles, Red-tailed, Rough-legged and Sparrow Hawks, Several Peregrine Falcons and a lot of ducks and herons. These are, obviously, some of the daffodils that were in bloom.

I'll be gone for a couple of days hiking and camping and this will be the last photo until I'm back and the last of the photos from the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. This, too, was taken in the display gardens at Roozengaarde's.

This is an older picture taken last year when the tulip fields in the Skagit Valley were at their peak.

Another photo from the fields of the Skagit Valley tulip growers.

Another photo from Roozengaarde's display gardens in the Skagit Valley. Roozengaarde's is one of the largest bulb growers in the United States and their display gardens attract millions of visitors.

Another photo from the few fields that were still blooming when we made a mid-April trip to the Skagit Valley. The early spring meant that most of the tulips were already finished.