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Lewes Tulip Celebration gets a colorful start
Bridget Dean-Pratt of Cape Artists works on a painting of the Mary Vessels Park gazebo during the Lewes Tulip Celebration’s first weekend. RON MACARTHUR PHOTOS
April 7, 2021
The 12th annual Lewes Tulip Festival continues through this week with special events scheduled for the weekend of April 10-11. Go to leweschamber.com/news/community/12th-annual-lewes-tulip-celebration-blooms-april-2-11-2021 for more information.
Sponsored by the Lewes Chamber of Commerce in partnership with Lewes in Bloom, the event kicked off April 2 with the star of the show – more than 24,000 tulips and 4,000 other flowers – bursting with color thanks to the efforts of Lewes in Bloom volunteers.
While many tulips showed their colors in time for the Lewes Tulip Celebration, Lewes in Bloom organizers say the week of April 5-9 will be peak time.
White tulips are among the hundreds blooming in flowerbeds at Zwaanendael Park.
Marcos Salaverria, Lewes Historical Society director of education, leads a History in Bloom tour through downtown gardens during the Lewes Tulip Celebration. The tour also included history of the First Town in the First State.
Vivid red tulips fill a flowerbed in downtown Lewes.
Tulips throughout Lewes, planted in 20 gardens, are a colorful treat for the eyes.
Visitors take a stroll through the Lewes Historical Society complex. Nine of the 10 buildings in the complex were moved from other locations in Sussex County.
R&L Liquors, on Second Street in downtown Lewes, has its windows painted for the Lewes Tulip Celebration.
Daffodils are in full bloom at the Lewes Historical Society complex.
