Tulip Days opens Thursday at popular Ontario farm market [Video]

Spring officially arrives at Pingles Farm Market Thursday with a colourful celebration of the largest tulip festival in the GTA, with visitors invited to tiptoe through more than half a million tulip blooms.

The farm, located east of Oshawa on Taunton Road near the village of Hampton in Clarington, has 30 varieties of the flowers on display and three weekends to take it all in before they are gone until next year.

The McKay family (from Willowtree Farm in Port Perry) took over the farm market in 2020 from Colleen and Walter Pingle, who operated the popular tourist farm for 37 years, and have kept many of the traditions alive while adding new ones, such as the tulip festival.

This is the debut for Tulip Days at Pingle’s, with the festival delayed a few weeks because of unseasonably cold weather.

“When it comes to farming,” Pingles said on their socials. …