A Woman's Sojourn: Tesselaar Tulip Festival in Silvan, Victoria

Tulips are grown commercially here in Victoria. Every year, the largest grower Tesselaar opens up their fields to the public around mid Sept - mid Oct. To spice it up, they add food stalls, music, sculpture exhibitions of local artists spread all over the fields, farm animals for the kids and have their staff sell tulip bulbs in pots to visitors.

Tulips are special because they come in so many different colours, and are relatively rare & costly compared with the other type of flowers. I remember the happiness I felt receiving a bunch of different coloured tulips from a friend I met on my Contiki tour to New Zealand. I started analysing what the different tulip colours meant.

Red tulips - Believe me, Declaration of love
Variegated tulips - Beautiful eyes
Yellow tulips - There's sunshine in your smile.

If you are looking to go, remember to go early. The crowds start to stream in around noon and you have to park really far away from the entrance. There is an entrance fee but it's well worth it.

Tickets sold here

These baby llamas are so adorable

Gnomes live here but they were out on that day

Maybe the gnomes are hiding in the tree, you reckon? they dont like crowds

You can bring your own picnic

One day we might adopt a SEDA Labrador (Seeing Eye Dog for the Blind) but I cant let them go after a year being their momma. If you want to do some good and you love animals, this is a very rewarding voluntary work.