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Howling winds and grey skies made for an unseasonably cool backdrop for the National Capital Commission’s release of Canada’s official birthday tulip to commemorate upcoming 2017 celebrations.
Officials huddled by the rainbow of flower beds at Commissioner’s Park, next to Dow’s Lake, to present the “Canada 150” tulip — a predominantly white flower with red flame-like detail — to reflect Canada’s national flag.
“Tulip beds across Canada will be even more impressive to look at next year as we mark Canada’s 150th birthday,” David McGuinty, Member of Parliament for Ottawa South, told the crowd of press and dignitaries that included Cees Kole, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Catherine McKenna, MP for Ottawa Centre and Canada’s environment minister and National Capital Commission chief executive officer Mark Kristmanson.
McGuinty said there are currently 200,000 Canada 150 tulips blooming in the NCC’s flowerbeds around the capital — including Parliament Hill, along Confederation Boulevard and the Rideau Canal, and the parkways — and next spring there will be 300,000.
Canadians will be able to purchase these bulbs at participating Home Hardware stores across the country this fall, and plant them in their own gardens in time for them to bloom next spring.
As the official gardener of Canada’s capital, the NCC is responsible for designing and planting close to one million tulips of 100 varieties in 100 flower beds around the city. The first tulip beds in the capital were planted in 1945 when the Netherlands sent 100,000 tulip bulbs as a postwar gift of gratitude for the role Canadian soldiers played in the liberation of the Netherlands.
Kole said Dutch tulip growers have been collaborating with the NCC for the past four years to develop and design the celebratory flower.
“The Canada 150 is one of the latest and most splendid products of our growers’ restless ingenuity,” said Kole. “We truly believe the Canada 150 tulip will stand and grow as a lasting testament to a very special relationship between two organizations, two peoples and definitely our two nations.”
pmccooey@ottawacitizen.com
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Officials huddled by the rainbow of flower beds at Commissioner’s Park, next to Dow’s Lake, to present the “Canada 150” tulip — a predominantly white flower with red flame-like detail — to reflect Canada’s national flag.
“Tulip beds across Canada will be even more impressive to look at next year as we mark Canada’s 150th birthday,” David McGuinty, Member of Parliament for Ottawa South, told the crowd of press and dignitaries that included Cees Kole, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Catherine McKenna, MP for Ottawa Centre and Canada’s environment minister and National Capital Commission chief executive officer Mark Kristmanson.
McGuinty said there are currently 200,000 Canada 150 tulips blooming in the NCC’s flowerbeds around the capital — including Parliament Hill, along Confederation Boulevard and the Rideau Canal, and the parkways — and next spring there will be 300,000.
Canadians will be able to purchase these bulbs at participating Home Hardware stores across the country this fall, and plant them in their own gardens in time for them to bloom next spring.
As the official gardener of Canada’s capital, the NCC is responsible for designing and planting close to one million tulips of 100 varieties in 100 flower beds around the city. The first tulip beds in the capital were planted in 1945 when the Netherlands sent 100,000 tulip bulbs as a postwar gift of gratitude for the role Canadian soldiers played in the liberation of the Netherlands.
Kole said Dutch tulip growers have been collaborating with the NCC for the past four years to develop and design the celebratory flower.
“The Canada 150 is one of the latest and most splendid products of our growers’ restless ingenuity,” said Kole. “We truly believe the Canada 150 tulip will stand and grow as a lasting testament to a very special relationship between two organizations, two peoples and definitely our two nations.”
pmccooey@ottawacitizen.com
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