Drone captures amazing color and beauty in acres of blooming daffodils

On a gorgeous April morning, Brent and Elsa woke up long before the roosters to venture out into the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada to capture some beautiful morning sights. The incredible sunrise over the Coastal Mountain range and acres and acres of amazing tulips as well as daffodils nearing full bloom. Tulips of the Valley takes place over a 3-5-week period, usually in April, sometimes into May. The first 2 weeks of the festival will be celebrating the beautiful new additions, over 10 varieties of Hyacinths and 17 different varieties of Specialty Daffodils. The last 3 weeks will be for celebrating the main act, 20 acres of tulips. Nearly an hours drive from Brent and Elsa’s home ,they arrived to the family owned farm hosting the festival. How did the family go from tulip-growing to tulip celebrating? Well, they couldn’t do it by themselves. What started out as a family passion, soon bloomed into a wonderful partnership with Onos Greenhouses Ltd., who own and grow the tulips on a 20-acre field. As you can imagine, this yields a bounty of bulbs, and at the end of the blooming season, after the guests have enjoyed their vibrant display, Onos Greenhouses collects the bulbs and then uses them in their greenhouse operation, to produce cut tulips that are sold throughout western Canada and the Northern United States. It’s with their help that this family run farm is able to bring the visitors “Tulips of the Valley”, Western Canada’s largest and most recognized Tulip Festival! Since then, this farm has been the Tulip Ambassador, bringing the lively, bright colours of the tulip to the Fraser Valley. People have been pouring in from as far away as South Asia and Europe as well as closer to home, from the U.S.A, Alberta and the Okanagan, just to get a glimpse of the mass fields of tulips. When the family first started cultivating these beauties, it was a pleasure enjoyed only by their family. After appreciating the tulip fields for years, they had to share the beauty with anyone who wished to see it. So, in 2006, they opened the fields to the public and have continued to do so ever since. Now in its twelfth year, the festival has grown from a couple hundred visitors per season, to nearly 30,000. Hopefully this gives you a glimpse of what Brent and Elsa had the joy to see, first hand on a very early Sunday morning.