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TCanadian Tulip Festival (French: Festival Canadien des Tulipes; Dutch: Canadees Festival van de Tulp) is a tulip festival held annually each May in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The festival claims to be the world's largest tulip festival, displaying over one million tulips, with attendance of over 650,000 visitors annually. Beautiful Large displays of tulips are planted throughout the city, the largest of which are often in Commissioners Park on the shores of Dow's Lake, and along the Rideau Canal with 300,000 tulips planted there alone.

The festival is a cultural and historical aspect of Canada–Netherlands relations, having originated with commemorative donations of tulips to Canada from the Netherlands for Canadian actions during World War II. The Netherlands continues to send 20,000 bulbs to Canada each year (10,000 from the Royal Family and 10,000 from the Dutch Bulb Growers Association)

REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival

Fun Tulip Facts

There are more than 3000 varieties of tulips worldwide.

Blooms only last 7-10 days.

There is a near black variety which is a deep purple.

Each tulip colour has a different meaning. Red tulips represent true love.

White ones are a symbol of apology and forgiveness, Purple tulips are a symbol of royalty.