Tulips In Iowa
By RasmaSandra
@RasmaSandra (96862)
Daytona Beach, Florida
March 12, 2026 4:18pm CST
Many immigrants from the Netherlands found a new life in America in the state of Iowa. With them they brought tulips. Over the years everyone in the state of Iowa fell in love with the lovely flower called the tulip. Every year they hold a three-day Tulip Festival in the city of Pella to remember their Dutch founding fathers.
The city of Pella was founded by Hendrik Pieter Scholte. He was a minister who immigrated with his wife, three daughters, and 800 followers. They build their "City of Refuge." All of these immigrants arrived looking for religious freedom. Moving to a rural area, Scholte became a jack-of-all-trades.
He was the one who laid out a plan for the town, decided the names of the streets, and built a church. He continued to develop the town, setting up a lime and brick kiln, opening a sawmill, and founding a bank. establishing a newspaper, and even becoming the postmaster and the land agent. Every spring, Pella springs forth in the beauty of tulips all around.
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@jerzgirl (9384)
• United States
15 Mar
@RasmaSandra I used to see them most often around Easter and Mother's Day.
@DaddyEvil (173269)
• United States
14 Mar
@RasmaSandra True. Mom planted different types of tulips in one flowerbed. When one color started fading/losing their petals, another color/type was just blooming.
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@RasmaSandra (96862)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Mar
@DaddyEvil unfortunately they do not last a long time,
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@jerzgirl (9384)
• United States
15 Mar
@RasmaSandra I've driven through Iowa several times but pretty much only saw either corn or snowy fields.
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@RasmaSandra (96862)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Mar
@DianneN that must have been so lovely; I had no idea they were in Iowa.
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@RasmaSandra (96862)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Mar
@AmbiePam I love pink and red ones and the occasional yellow one. Like from my garden in Latvia
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@RasmaSandra (96862)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Mar
@AmbiePam came up like clockwork every spring,
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@jerzgirl (9384)
• United States
14 Mar
@Ineeddentures I've seen photos of fields of them. Maybe they'd only in one area like that.
@RasmaSandra (96862)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Mar
@jerzgirl now you can go to the festival in Iowa,
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@celticeagle (188511)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Mar
They are as lovely as the fields of lavender.
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@jerzgirl (9384)
• United States
15 Mar
When I was married and living in Utah, we used to go camping off a mountain pass between Huntsville and Wellsville, UT. On the drive up to the pass, we would pass through several mountain meadows that were occasionally full of blooming flowers. I never had a camera with me, but I enjoyed the sight every time.
@RasmaSandra (96862)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Mar
@celticeagle yes, lavender fields are also breathtaking
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@LadyDuck (499964)
• Italy
15 Mar
@RasmaSandra - I suppose that NY is too polluted and the land too expensive to plant tulips.
@RasmaSandra (96862)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Mar
@LadyDuck and it's surprising that there are not tulip fields in NYC, but there are some places with lots of tulips in NY State.
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@luisadannointed (10900)
• Philippines
13 Mar
Thanks for the info, tulips are lovely.
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@RasmaSandra (96862)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Mar
@luisadannointed I mostly have red tulip when I had a garden,
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@LovingMyBabies (85923)
• Valdosta, Georgia
13 Mar
Absolutely beautiful they are and so neat to learn about the towns beginnings, thanks for sharing this!
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@RasmaSandra (96862)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Mar
@LovingMyBabies glad you enjoyed
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@RasmaSandra (96862)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Mar
@JudyEv that is nice that you also have tulips to see
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@LindaOHio (220203)
• United States
13 Mar
That would be quite a sight. Scholte did quite a bit for the town.
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@RasmaSandra (96862)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Mar
@LindaOHio I loved it when the tulips popped out in my garden in the spring
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