Spring Grove’s Richardson Farm is at it again. Home to the world’s largest corn maze in the fall months, in spring and early summer the farm offers a kaleidoscopic spectacle with its annual Richardson Farm Tulip Festival.
This year is the farm’s fourth annual tulip festival and millions of tulips have now pushed their way skyward prompting Richardson Farm to show their breathtaking ethereal elegance by opening earlier than usual.
“Planted in the fall across roughly 12 acres of the farm’s westerly fields were 350,000 tulip bulbs in more than two dozen varieties, plus 50,000 daffodil bulbs,” reads the Richardson Farm press release. “Yellow, peach, white, early-, mid- and late-blooming daffodils are new entrants in this, the fourth year of the Tulip Festival at the Spring Grove farm.”
With the new addition of 50,000 daffodils, up to 900,000 returning bulbs from the previous three years, and an extra 350,000 tulip bulbs from this year, the farm is expecting over a million beautiful blooms.
“It’s spectacular,” said George Richardson, who operates the farm along with his wife, Wendy, brother, Robert, Robert’s wife, Carol, George’s son, Ryan, and Ryan’s wife, Kristen. “It’s that first ‘wow’ pop of colors of springtime. It just feels good.”
Open 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, there is once again be a gift shop, modern indoor restrooms, and a wine-tasting bar as well as live music, food trucks, and yard games on weekends.
According to the release “the cost is $16 per person, all ages, Tuesdays through Fridays, and $19 on Saturdays and Sundays for those 13 and older. The cost for those ages 4 through 12 on Saturdays and Sundays is $16. Ages 3 and younger are admitted free.”
All paying visitors receive one free tulip with admission, as well as entry to the flower fields and access to the picnic area around Richardson Lake.
Richardson Farm is located at 909 English Prairie Road, Spring Grove. More information can be found at richardsonfarm.com.
[Featured image courtesy of Richardson Farm]