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Title: Tulip fields around Spalding?
Post by: caroline7758 on April 25, 2014, 16:56:46

On our travels in the van this week we went in search of the tulip fields around Spalding. We saw a few small fields of daffs (mostly finished now) and tulips, but apart from the displays at the Springfield Festival Gardens (strange place, part of a shopping outlet), were disappointed. Were we looking in the wrong place, or do all the tulips come from Holland now?

Title: Re: Tulip fields around Spalding?
Post by: Flighty on April 25, 2014, 20:19:36

Sadly most come from Holland. This article is from a couple of years ago -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130905/Not-Netherlands-Norfolk-Huge-demand-British-grown-tulips-sees-field-turned-colourful-crop.html