What happens when an accountant and a librarian — not always seen as the most exciting of professions — put their heads together to come up with a retirement project? Something pretty colourful in the case of Green Corners Farm just south of this rural Ottawa hamlet! By: Tom Van Dusen Photo: Nation Valley News...Read More

What happens when an accountant and a librarian — not always seen as the most exciting of professions — put their heads together to come up with a retirement project? Something pretty colourful in the case of Green Corners Farm just south of this rural Ottawa hamlet! By: Tom Van Dusen Photo: Nation Valley News...Read More

For nearly seven decades, May has brought blooming tulips and hundreds of thousands of tourists to Canada’s capital city. But this year, travel restrictions have kept them away from Ottawa, leaving the flowers only for the locals to admire, provided they practice physical distancing while in the gardens. By: Alexandra Mae Jones, Ann Bergeron-Oliver Photo:...Read More

For nearly seven decades, May has brought blooming tulips and hundreds of thousands of tourists to Canada’s capital city. But this year, travel restrictions have kept them away from Ottawa, leaving the flowers only for the locals to admire, provided they practice physical distancing while in the gardens. By: Alexandra Mae Jones, Ann Bergeron-Oliver Photo:...Read More

It will certainly be an opening to remember for the owner’s of Ottawa’s first “U-Pick Tulip Farm”—the debut season happening in the middle of COVID-19. “We’ll give you a little bit of training how to pick the tulips and then you’ll just wander the field,” said Allan Groen who owns Green Corners Farm with his...Read More

It will certainly be an opening to remember for the owner’s of Ottawa’s first “U-Pick Tulip Farm”—the debut season happening in the middle of COVID-19. “We’ll give you a little bit of training how to pick the tulips and then you’ll just wander the field,” said Allan Groen who owns Green Corners Farm with his...Read More

As if on an intentional schedule, tulips planted last November at Bulkley Valley Christian School (BVCS) bloomed on VE Day. The flowers were a gift from the Dutch embassy to commemorate the liberation of the Netherlands by Canadian forces at the end of the Second World War. By: Thom Barker Photo: Bulkley Valley Christian School...Read More

Orange tulips are popping up in flower beds around City Hall in Charlottetown. The capital city joined municipalities across the country in planting “Liberation 75” tulips to commemorate the role Canada played in the Second World War and, specifically, in the liberation of the Netherlands. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of...Read More

Orange tulips are popping up in flower beds around City Hall in Charlottetown. The capital city joined municipalities across the country in planting “Liberation 75” tulips to commemorate the role Canada played in the Second World War and, specifically, in the liberation of the Netherlands. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of...Read More

If it were a normal year, Commissioners Park would be packed this weekend as the Canadian Tulip Festival winds to a close. Tulips in cotton-candy pinks, sunny yellows and gem-tone reds are, after all, a welcome sight following a long, grey spring and two dull months of social isolation. By: CBC News Photo: Jean Delisle Source:...Read More