Tulips take pride of place at Warsaw’s Wilanów Museum

The 14th annual Tulip Show, held at Warsaw’s Wilanów Museum between 16-17 March 2024,  brought a blaze of colour and a plethora of shapes and sizes.

True to tradition, the Wilanów Museum and Polish Association of Flower Bulb Growers’ annual event was two weeks before Easter.

Approximately 8,500 visitors viewed a myriad of locally grown tulips.

The museum’s Orangery hosted a variety of tulip arrangements by Ms Karolina-Ladyzynska-Skrzypek and her team.

A dozen of growers from across Poland displayed simple glass vases filled to the brim with tulips in a rainbow of colours, including yellow, white, orange, pink, purple, bicolours, and fringed cultivars.

From the onset, the goal of Warsaw’s annual tulip event has been to promote and support Polish-grown tulips by putting the Tulipani Polskie brand in the limelight.

Warsaw’s tulip extravaganza was also a chance to learn more about highly advanced techniques of tulip forcing, which is done hydroponically and in crates.

The protected cut tulip production area in Poland (glasshouses and poly-roofed greenhouses) is approximately 55ha, with an annual output of 150-180 million stems.

Photo courtesy: Agnieszka Murawska.