Will The Flowers Be Gone Before This Year’s Tulip Time Festival?

April showers bring May flowers... But, what happens when the weather starts to get warm earlier than we expect and those April showers turn into March showers with April flowers? Well, for the residents of Holland, it means some really nervous feelings about the upcoming Tulip Time festival.

Scheduled to kick off on May 4th and run through 12th, the Tulip Time festival is stragically planned so that the best of the blooms hit right as the festival kicks off. But due to an extremely mild winter, we're seeing Tulips and other flowers already popping up across West Michigan.

If you lived in West Michigan in 2012, you may remember the infamous 'Stem Fest' that happened when the tulips bloomed far too early in the year, leaving the tulip fields in Holland to be barren and just full of stems.

But, organizers from this year's event say you won't have to worry about that for the 2024 festival, even though we've been seeing blooms for nearly a month.

Thankfully, they said the infamous 'Stem Fest' had entire fields of flowers blooming in March of that year. Thankfully, most of the fields only started blooming in mid-April, meaning they should be holding up just fine through Tulip Time.

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At the time, they poked fun at the disappointing festival with fun t-shirts being sold by Tulip Time themselves:

So while we don't have to worry about that happening this year, you may want to show up earlier in the festival if you want to see the Tulips at their best and brightest blooms. You know, just to be safe.