Spring is coming to the Fraser Valley, and with it, at least three of the region's floral festivals. The Harrison Tulip Festival in Agassiz, Botanica Flower Festival in Chilliwack, and Lakeland Flowers in Abbotsford are all gearing up for their 2026 seasons.
The Harrison Tulip Festival is marking its 20th year — the Onos family launched BC's first tulip festival in Agassiz in 2006 — and has new programming this season. Spread across 45 acres, the festival features 150 tulip varieties and more than 14 million spring blooms, including tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths, along with food trucks, live music, and a U-Pick experience. New this year is the Night Garden, an evening experience on select dates where the four-acre show garden is lit up with lanterns and lights, live music, food trucks, and an evening market. Also new is the Bloom Bar, a self-serve flower station where visitors can make bouquets and flower crowns and paint wooden postcards and coasters. A shuttle service from Lougheed Station is also running for the first time this year.
In Chilliwack, Botanica is returning with 1.4 million tulips across more than 90 varieties, a curated display garden, a wildflower section, and a spring U-Pick featuring ranunculus, anemones, snapdragons, and more. New this year is a lineup of ticketed signature events: Petals & Pilates pairs an outdoor Pilates class with time in the fields; Petals & Pints brings a craft beer garden and live music; and Petals & Provisions features more than 20 local artisan vendors. Also new is the Community Quilt, a 1,600-square-foot floral installation created collaboratively by local businesses and organizations. Botanica also offers Seniors Days every Tuesday with discounted admission for visitors 65 and older.
In Abbotsford, Lakeland Flowers opens April 13 and runs through June 15, with 35 acres of tulips spanning more than 100 varieties — including double, fringed, and parrot tulips — open daily from 6 am to 8:30 pm. The farm is a third-generation operation rooted in Dutch flower farming traditions, and features a legacy tulip variety named after its first-generation farmer, Peter Warmerdam. Beyond the fields, the festival has an arts focus: baby grand pianos are tucked among the blooms with live performances on Thursday evenings, and local artists hold live painting sessions on select Fridays. Visitors can also explore golden pathways, vintage bicycles, canoes, swings, and giant klompen. Food trucks are on site on both weekdays and weekends.
With festivals running from Agassiz to Abbotsford, there's no shortage of ways to get out into the fields this April — and for anyone who's been waiting for a reason to shake off winter, tulip season in the Fraser Valley is a pretty good one.
