Warm weather means P.E.I.’s Belfast Tulips are blooming earlier than usual [Video]

Belfast Tulips is getting ready to open a week sooner than expected after an early spring led to its first tulips being ready to bloom.

The U-pick tulip field in eastern P.E.I. that has become known as a seasonal photographer’s heaven is set to open to visitors this Friday, seven days before its previously planned opening date of May 23.  

Trisha Viaene, who does the marketing for the family-owned operation, said she’s looking forward to their fifth season kicking off on the long weekend.

“It’s bigger and we get better every year,” she told CBC News.

Belfast Tulips started in 2020 with two acres of U-pick flowers grown from bulbs, and this year they’ve expanded to four and a half acres, located between Lower Newtown and Eldon in southeastern P.E.I.