Information Tulp Festival

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Where

During the 12th edition of the annual Tulp Festival Amsterdam in April 2026 masses of tulips in public space will give colour to the capital. Tubs and planters full of tulips enliven streets and squares, flowerbeds and parks, bridges and gardens, under the motto ‘a tulip for every Amsterdammer’. Throughout April, Tulp Festival Amsterdam will send you on a voyage of discovery along many locations across the city with a total of hundreds of thousands of tulips. Tulp Festival brightens up shopping areas and residential neighbourhoods and the photogenic tulip can be beautifully immortalised everywhere.

How

Stroll or cycle along parks and squares, streets and gardens and admire the tulips displayed in large planters or tubs, or planted in the ground. Let yourself be seduced by the explosion of varieties and colors and be inspired to take pictures of these lovely Spring flowers. Share your beauties on our social media channels by tagging us @tulpfestival on Instagram and @tulpfestvialamsterdam on Facebook and use the hashtags: #tulipsinamsterdam #tulpfestival2026 #tulpfestivalamsterdam.

A tulip for every citizen

History

Tulp Festival connects city districts, businesses, residents and visitors. Garden designer Saskia Albrecht, is the founder of Tulp Festival. It is her ambition to bring the tulip back to the streets of Amsterdam, her motto: ‘a tulip for every citizen of Amsterdam’.  Tulp Festival sends you on a discovery journey. Each year you will find new surprising locations.

Origin of the tulips Tulp Festival Amsterdam

Certified growers
Tulp Festival Amsterdam strives to use organic tulip bulbs. The cultivation of fully organic (tulip) bulbs is on the rise, but there are still only a limited number of varieties available. Purely organic tulips are not yet available for the quantities for Tulp Festival Amsterdam. But around 50.000 organic tulips will be on show in the streets and shopping centres of City Council Nieuw-West as well as in the pond in Vondelpark.

We work with a supplier from North Holland, who in turn purchases the tulip bulbs from certified bulb growing companies in the region, with certificates such as: GLOBAL G.A.P and NLG. The tulip bulbs are grown according to all legal standards and regulations. No prohibited crop protection agents are used.

Growing from ‘dry bulb to flowering’
The tulips for the Tulp Festival are grown sustainably from ‘dry bulb to flowering’ in trays and tubs. The forcing takes place from October and everything remains outside until December. If it gets too cold, the tulips go into a cold greenhouse until they can go outside again to bloom just in time.

No pesticides are used during the forcing process (so no effect on insects) and no heating or cooling (no energy consumption). The scales and tubs with tulips are transported to the locations in Amsterdam at the end of March and also removed at the end of April. The tulips therefore do not come into contact with the soil and groundwater. After removal, the tulips are sustainably processed into compost.