Tesselaar Tulip Festival | Before you visit | Silvan Victoria | Melbourne | Exploring Australia |
Tesselaar Tulip Festival .... I will start of by briefing how the festival started here in Melbourne. The festival is held in Silvan, Victoria every spring since 1954. It has become one of iconic tourist attraction in Victoria, Australia with more than 120 varieties of tulips are shown on a 55-acre farm.
This tulip farm was initiated by a couple of Dutch immigrants, Cees and Johanna Tesselaar. They arrived in Melbourne at 1939 and started to grow tulips, gladioli and daffodils on their land. After purchasing a bigger land in Silvan, they grew more tulip bulbs and it attracted people to stop by on their property and admire their fields. At 1954, Cees and Johanna decided to publicly open the farm with silver coin donation for Red Cross Australia. In 2017, around 900.000 tulip bulbs were planted using modern machinery and 80.000 of bulbs still planted traditionally by hand. This tulip festival has been more commercialised by including music, food and wine to attract more visitors
How to reach
The best way to get to the #Tesselaar #Tulip Festival is to get a group of family and friends together and take a scenic drive through the Dandenong Ranges to the Tesselaar Flower Farm, which is located within 60 minutes of #Melbourne. There is ample parking space around the area for your car.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Public transport is another alternative method for getting to the Tesselaar Tulip Festival for people who do not have access to a vehicle.
1. Board a Train from a Melbourne station to Lilydale Station
2. At Lilydale Station catch the Tesselaar Tulip Festival shuttle bus (which departs 3-5 minutes after the train arrives at the Lilydale station. The 20 minute trip costs $3 for a return ticket, Children U16 Free.
3. The first bus departs Lilydale Station at 10am and approximately every 30 minutes thereafter.
4. The last bus returning to Lilydale Station departs the festival at 5.30pm.
The entry fee for the festival is 29$ per person however children under 16 yrs are free. This year the festival started on 14 September and ends on 13 October. Every week has a different theme during the festival. The week we visited was celebrating food , wine and jazz weekend. Entry during this week included complimentary wine tastings from some amazing boutique wineries. There was also ample choice for food options.
Tesselaar Tulip Festival 2019 | Silvan, Victoria | Australia
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Last October 12, we had the chance to explore the stunning and colourful five acre Tesselaar Tulip Farm. It featured different varieties of tulips from all over the world.
In addition to the magnificent sea of lovely tulips, there were also sculptures, live entertainment, market stalls and tractor rides.
Tulip Festival, Silvan | 2015
We visit the Tesselaar Tulip Festival in Silvan, Victoria. Running from the 10th of September to the 6th of October, you may want to spend a few hours... or maybe not at all. Click to find out why.
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Tulips Australia | Tesselaar Tulip Festival. The Tesselaar Tulip Festival began in 1954 and has since grown to become one of Victoria's most iconic tourist attractions, showcasing the breathtaking beauty of over a million spring flowers in bloom. The fields burst into colour each September and include over 120 different varieties of tulips alone.
This four week family festival hosts various themed days and weekends including Turkish, Dutch, Food, Wine, Jazz and Irish along with eight days packed with school holiday fun for the kids.
Visit the website for a timetable of events tulipfestival.com.au.
Tulips are the stars of the show but you can also enjoy live entertainment daily, market stalls, culinary delights from around the globe, Dutch costumes, tractor rides, our pick your own tulip patch, sculpture exhibit, fairy garden and more. Bring a picnic to enjoy in the gardens or indulge in local produce.
The Tesselaar Tulip Festival is just over an hour's drive from Melbourne, and is set on a 55-acre working farm at the base of the Dandenong Ranges. This is a unique experience found nowhere else in Victoria
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Melbourne Tesselaar Tulip Festival 2019
Tesselaar Tulip Festival is held in Silvan, Victoria every spring since 1954. It has become one of iconic tourist attraction in Victoria, Australia with more than 120 varieties of tulips are shown on a 55-acre farm. This tulip farm was initiated by a couple of Dutch immigrants, Cees and Johanna Tesselaar.
Spring flowers at the 2019 Tesselaar Tulip Festival held in Melbourne’s magical Dandenong Ranges from September – October.
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It all began in 1939 with Dutch migrants Cees and Johanna Tesselaar, leaving Holland on their wedding day with a suitcase full of bulbs...
Setting up a shop in the picturesque Dandenong Ranges, they began growing tulips, an exotic bloom for the time, which caused a stir with people jumping the fence to get a closer look.
Tesselaar officially opened the gates and celebrated their first Tulip Festival in 1954. From simple beginnings to what is now one of Victoria's major tourist attractions, the success of The Tesselaar Tulip Festival rests entirely with the unique and timeless beauty of the tulip.
There is nothing more captivating than a field of colourful tulips...
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We sure got a lot done in just one day! We visited the stunning (tho very crowded) Tesselaar Tulip Festival, a lovely Chocolate and Ice Creamery and then drove back into the city to have dinner by the ocean during sunset :) I wish everyday could be days like this!
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Tulips for a good cause
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has flown in 5,000 stalks of fresh tulips from the Netherlands for its KLM Charity Tulip Sale in conjunction with Mother’s Day.
The charity sale will be held on May 11 from 10am to 2pm at Level 3 of the domestic arrival hall in the KLIA Main Terminal.
All proceeds will be donated to Hospis Malaysia.
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Let's enjoy the wonderland of spring flowers at the Tesselaar Tulip Festival in Silvan, Victoria!????
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