渥太华的郁金香节是一年一度，而我们也是年年去，年年看， 年年照。

但是，年年都能学到点新东西，拍到点新片片，所以年年都是很开心的一旅，更不要说以看花为名，探亲访友为实的痛快了！

今年长的知识是:

- Tha Canadian Tulip Festival is the largest tulip festival in the world.

- Tulips belong to the lily family.

- They originated in mountainous regions of Asia and Europe near the 40th parallel.

- Tulips came to Europe from Turkey.

- The word tulip is derived from the Turkish word for turban.

- Must tulips have no scent.

- Tulip bulbs are edible. They taste like onions. Starving Dutch citizens ate bulbs for survival during the Second World War.

- The tulip is the world's most planted flower.

- In the 17th century, tulips were mostly just red, yellow or maroon purple.

- The most popular colours of tulip today are yellow, white, pink and red.

- The Netherlands accounts for some 80 per cent of the world's annual tulip bulb production.

- The bulb that produces the flower disappears after the plant flowers, but before doing so produces and "offspring" bulb that will flower tha following year.

- 2,600 - The estimated number of varieties of tulips.

- 2-6 - the typical number of leaves on a tulip plants.

- 15 - the numberof different classifications of tulips.

- 3 - 7 days - the typical lifespan of a tulip blossom.


现在就看看今年拍的新片片吧。

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停好车，进到湖边这公园的时候，应该跟往年不一样，是到的正门这边。

先看的是这片有些开过的花，再过去点，居然看到满目的茎，心里暗叫不好：今年算来算去，莫不是选的时候又不对了？！

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3）一枝独秀


4）稀疏


5）密实

继续往里走，发现情况没有以为的差。其实，应该说，花儿还是开得相当旺的。

郁金香节是持续三周的，我们过去在第一周去过，第三周去得最多。第一周去，见到有花苞没开，第三周去，许多都已开败，所以今年专门挑了第二周。没曾想，今年的五月初，很热过几天的，所以难怪有些品种的花期都过了。

看到今年那里的资料上说，郁金香的花期一般也就3-7天。那就意味着，其实无论那周去，总要不是看到些花没开，就是看到些花谢，或者兼而有之了。


6）娇嫩


7）壮观


8）红与白


9）艳丽


10）高贵


11）“蒙娜丽莎”


12）灿烂


13）浪漫


14）热闹


15）耀眼


16）安静


17）温柔


18）俏丽

19）梦幻


20）圆满