Tulip Award Winners Announced at Tulip Soirée

The Canadian Tulip Festival is proud to announce the Tulip Award recipients for 2017.  In the spirit of highlighting and celebrating the Capital’s vibrant tulip culture, these new awards acknowledge and recognize those who contribute to and enhance the Capital’s tulip experience during the Festival. The Tulip is Ottawa’s official flower and the Festival has been celebrating the Capital’s vibrant tulip culture for 65 years, having first been established to acknowledge the friendship forged between Holland and Canada while the Dutch Royal Family was sheltered here during the Second World War. The twelve Tulip Award recipients  announced at the Tulip Soirée, an inaugural event of the Canadian Tulip Festival that took place tonight during  the 7th World Tulip Summit in Ottawa, are as follows:

Alt Hotel

Front of Hotel Display

Half Moon Bay Public School

Tulip Garden

National Capital Commission

Canada 150 Tulip

Rheal Leroux

Front Yard Garden

Dundonald Park

Community Tulip Garden

Maplelawn Garden

Tulip Gardens

Beechwood Cemetery

Tulip Gardens

Schad

Window Display - tulip heads

Jason Michelin

Tulip Crush Game

Embassy West Hotel

Canada 150 Celebration Garden

Top Shelf Distillery

Tulip Julip Cocktail

Lord Elgin

Malak Karsh Tulip Photo Exhibition

“We are proud to celebrate those organizations which have generously contributed to and supported the Canadian Tulip Festival and its tulip legacy. The Festival has grown in stature to become internationally known and continues to flourish thanks to organizations like yours,” said Michel Gauthier, Executive Director of the Festival.