Texas Tulips: A Tulip field near Dallas

Yes, there are tulips in Texas and like everything else in Texas, they are big and beautiful! If you want to walk among rows and rows of tulips, Texas Tulips is the place. They currently have two tulip fields – one in Gainsville, a 45-minute drive from Dallas and one near San Antonio.

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A road trip to Gainsville to see a Tulip field near Dallas

This weekend my daughter visited a tulip field in Texas with her friend while we were tending to our garden.  We have a yearly tradition of visiting the Dallas Arboretum during their Spring bloom season to enjoy the hundreds of colorful spring blooms from tulips, daffodils, Dutch Iris and hyacinths, pansies, violas, poppies and thousands of other spring-blooming annuals and perennials. If you time it right you can catch the garden’s collection of 3,000 azaleas blooming as well. 

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After seeing the social media ads for the Texas Tulip farms my daughter wanted to go check it out.  Set in a farm only 45 minutes drive from Dallas, the pictures looked like a mini getaway to the tulip fields of Holland.  For a minimum entrance fee and $2.50 a stem, you get to pick the tulips you want in a cute basket.  Then you pay for the tulips and the staff puts them in gel and wraps them beautiful to take home and enjoy. Texas Tulips has brought the joy of Holland tulips right here to Texas!

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How fun to pick some tulips to take home!
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So many pretty colors
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Yellow is always a favorite!
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History of the Tulip Farm

Pieter and Petra Koeman, who are originally from the Netherlands, brought a piece of their home to Texas by opening Texas-Tulips. They visited Texas several times, loved what they saw, and finally decided to set up a tulip company in Pilot Point Texas. They found the perfect fusion of fertile soil, country charm within the DFW-Metroplex, and nice weather during the spring season in the gentle, rolling hills north of Dallas. They plant the tulips in December and they bloom from March to the end of April. Their mother Afra at 73 years old, is still very active in the company, she along with her husband owned an 80-acre tulip farm and each winter grew tens of millions of tulips in their greenhouses. These tulips were then sold at flower auctions in the Netherlands.

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How awesome are these stacked petal ones!

Pick your own Tulips: Here is how it works

Once you arrive and enter you can take a picking basket, which is available on the field. You can then pick the tulips you want to buy and create your own wonderful bunch of tulips! Bring the tulips to the kiosk and they will wrap the tulips for you in pretty wrapping paper and put a special gel on the stems to preserve your tulips until you can get them home to a vase.

Texas Tulips have some of the gorgeous tulip varieties, some of our favorites are Texas Gold, Texas Flame, American Dream, fringed ones, parrot, striped tulips and the rose-like ones with multiple petals.

Cut your stems at Texas Tulips. Tulip farm near Dallas, Texas
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Best time to see Tulips in Texas

Spring is usually when we North Texans begin searching for bluebonnet fields to take our spring pictures,  this year instead head to Texas Tulips for your Easter or Spring pictures. It’s a European floral paradise right in the heart of North Texas with rows upon rows of yellow, white and pink tulips blossoming. The gorgeous pictures make your friends think you went on a European getaway to the tulips gardens of the Netherlands and is a perfect little day trip from Dallas!

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These almost look like roses!

Best time to visit Texas Tulips  

The best time to see full bloom varies every year but the Tulip farm allows people to visit whenever the tulips are in bloom. Generally, the season is between late February and early April. We have been a couple of times and late February to early March seemed like a good time. Plan a visit on a weekday if you don’t want to deal with the crowd. This Tulip field near Dallas Fort Worth area has become popular these days and can be pretty crowded during the weekends and parking becomes a nightmare. Please check their website before you go: https://texas-tulips.com.

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A weekend visit to Texas Tulips!
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Texas Tulips – The year we visited a little too early and not all the rows were blooming yet
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Additional Information for visiting Texas Tulips

Texas-Tulips near Dallas: 10656 FM2931, Pilot Point, TX 76258
Open daily from 10 am until 8 pm.
$5.00 dollars entrance fee per person
Free parking / U-Pick Tulip Flower $2.50/stem
Phone: (940)-230-6512

Texas-Tulips San Antonio: 15122 FM 775, La Vernia TX 78121

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Updated January 2020

11 thoughts on “Texas Tulips: A Tulip field near Dallas”

  1. What an amazing idea to do this in the US 😀
    Tulips are amazing, I would love to visit a tulip field someday!
    The price is also great!

    Thank you for joining #MondayEscapes 😀

  2. What a great find. I had no idea this existed in North Texas. Sounds like a good excuse for a roadtrip up from Austin for me. I’d love to get some photos there and a beautiful bouquet, too.

  3. I LOVE anything Dutch tulips!!! How wonderful to find a piece of Holland in the middle of Texas. Beautiful flower, photos, and family! #MondayEscapes

  4. Wow the tulips are gorgeous! I used to go to a Tulip Festival near my college and your post made me miss it! Lovely pictures too! xo #MondayEscapes

  5. That’s awesome. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have the annual Tulip festival too and it is rather grand, but it’s always crowded and muddy. I don’t see any mud in your pictures so kinda jealous 🙂

  6. Tulips are such lovely symbols of spring, I think your daughter made a great choice choosing to visit this farm. I wish our weather was as warm as that, to be able to wear shorts; you’re so lucky! #weekendwanderlust

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