5 places to see spring tulips near Philly

If your soul is craving some florals, there are lots of ways to take in vibrant spring tulips from horizon to horizon, and take home some for your table, too. The region’s flower farms and fields offer picturesque scenes that are much cheaper than hopping on a plane to Holland. Happy spring.

Here are the best places to see tulips this spring in Philly.

Looking for more than tulips? Check out our complete guide to flower farms and festivals near Philly.

🌷 Late April, May

Established in 1868 as a dairy farm, Brown’s is now the largest tulip farm in Pennsylvania. With over 500,000 tulips and 25,000 daffodils over four acres, their tulip fields are one of the more popular spring attractions in the region. Picking tulips cost $1 a stem, plus visitors can say hello to the farm’s goats, horses and Highland cows.

📍 405 E W. Avery Station Rd., Tunkhannock, Pa. 📞 570-241-8430, 🌐 brownhillfarms.com, 🎟️ $12 admission (ages 13+), free for children under 13

🌷 Now through April 22 (later dates may be scheduled based on weather)

Located just off Route 322 in Gloucester County on property that dates back to the 17th century, this 100-acre farm has a six-acre lake, 10 active beehives that produce honey (which is for sale at the farm), and 30 acres of tulips. The ticketed Festival of Tulips runs most weekends during the short tulip blooming season in April (dependent on weather). These are the only weeks when you can fill your basket with tulips for $2 per stem or $10 for a bundle of 10. Weekends feature a farmers market, live music, a beer garden and more.

📍660 Oak Grove Rd., Swedesboro, NJ, 📞 856-628-7313, 🌐 daltonfarmsnj.com, 📷 @daltonfarmsnj, 🎟️ $14 admission (ages 3+), free for children under 3

🌷 Now through April 21

Casey Jansen Sr. opened this huge family-run flower farm in Monmouth County, N.J., designed after Holland’s world-famous tulip farms. The 300-plus-acre farm is full of seemingly endless fields of flowers, is the largest u-pick farm in the country and hosts an annual tulip festival. The pick-your-own tulips fields, which traditionally open in mid-April, have over 8 million flowers. Tulip season is short and sweet — lasting only about three weeks — but the tulips cost just $1 per stem. The farm provides free buckets and the clippers with each ticket (only available online).

📍86 Rues Rd., Cream Ridge, NJ, 📞 609-448-7483, 🌐 hollandridgefarms.com, 📷 @hollandridgefarms, 🎟️ $15 admission (ages 3+), free for children under 3; pay-as-you-go flowers

🌷 April

Located in Roxborough, Love ‘n Fresh Flowers is a five-acre flower farm and flower studio. Explore the city farm during Floral workshops where you’ll learn how to make floral jewelry, seasonal centerpieces, DIY wedding bouquets, and more. While at the farm for a workshop, enjoy the wide-open fields and the farm’s resident cats.

📍Hagys Mill Rd., Pa., 📞 215-804-9056, 🌐 lovenfreshflowers.com, 📷 @loveandfreshflowers, 🎟️ $175-$250 for classes, $649 for season pass

🌷 Spring Blooms festival, now through May 5

What started off as Pierre du Pont’s 1906 vision to save a cherished trees from being sold for lumber has become one of the country’s most celebrated horticultural grounds. Longwood Gardens includes 1,100 acres of dazzling gardens, woodlands, meadows, fountains, and has a 10,010-pipe Aeolian organ and grand conservatory on the botanical gardens’ property. During Spring Blooms, you can walk among more than just tulips: Take in magnolias, cherry blossoms, and more in both their indoor and outdoor locations. Longwood’s historic 600-foot-long Flower Garden Walk boasts more than 200,000 tulips and other seasonal blooms in a patchwork of color. In the Ornamental Kitchen Garden and Herb Garden, beds of tulips and other spring favorites grow alongside cool-season vegetables and herbs that begin to emerge from the soil. The Combination Garden has yellow daffodils mixed with pockets of white tulips, purple alliums and blue camassia.

📍1001 Longwood Rd., Kennett Square, Pa. 📞 610-388-1000, 🌐 longwoodgardens.org, 📷 @longwoodgarden, 🎟️ $25 for adults; $22 for seniors (ages 62+); $13 for youth (ages 5—18); free ages 4 and under

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