Our rainy and cold spring is impacting the flowers. The fields are only at 30% bloom. ‘We should be at peak bloom right now,’ said someone with the festival.
WOODBURN, Ore. — The colors of blooming flowers at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival are an annual sign of spring in the Willamette Valley, but this year it’s not quite so colorful.
Right now, the fields are only at 30% peak bloom— the worst the farm has seen in nearly 40 years. The bloom is so late this year, the festival is being extended one more week and will now run through May 7.
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