HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – If you liked any of the tulips planted in Centennial Park, Window on the Waterfront and/or Windmill Island Gardens during the Tulip Time Festival earlier this month, you can bring them home on Saturday (May 22, 2021).
The annual Tulip Dig will be from 9 AM to 11 AM at those three locations on a first-come, first-serve basis. For $10 a five-gallon bucket, residents and visitors can dig up those bulbs with their own equipment during that two-hour span only, with a maximum of 300 people allowed at each site.
So what should one be looking for? “You look for the color you want, but look for the ones where the leaves are almost yellow,” Master Gardener Jan Meeuwsen of DeBruyn Seed in Zeeland said on “WHTC Morning News” during her weekly “Garden Party” segment on Tuesday. “All of the energy is going back into the bulbs, so you don’t have to be so fussy about those. You can just pull those out, and when you get home, chop off the tops and store them until the fall, when you plant them.
“There are some spectacular tulips out there,” Meewusen continued. “Go toward the back and don’t just hit the first one you see. You’ll find plenty of tulip bulbs, and you can get about a hundred in your bucket, so for 10 bucks, that’s a great deal.”
The event is a fund raiser for the Holland in Bloom Committee, which organizes the Tulip City’s entry in the annual America in Bloom community enhancement program. More information on the Tulip Dig is here.
