Daffodil Festival

Month : April
Place : Pierce County, Washington (U.S.A)
Famous For : Parade
Attractions : Parade of automobiles decorated with Daffodil flowers

The Daffodil Festival is one of the most awaited festivals in United States of America. Basically the festivals is a regional celebration which features a parade in Pierce County, Washington. Another major highlight of this festival is an year-long pageant to select the festival queen from one of the area high schools. The unique festival is observed every year during the month of April. The Daffodil festival was started in the year 1926 as an annual festival.

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The splendorous Daffodil festival traces its origin way back before the year 1925, when the Puyallup River valley, in which part of Tacoma, Puyallup, Sumner and Orting lie, had rich glacial soil. In the year 1925 the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommended bulb growing to replace the decaying hops industry. In a short span of time, the trademark bulb fields sprung up, most notably Van Lierop's bulb farm in Puyallup, along Shaw Road. Daffodils and tulips became the best crops. In 1926, started the Daffodil Festival as an annual formal garden party of Mr. And Mrs. Charles W. Orton in Orting. In 1934 the parade section of the festival was established, as a procession of automobiles decorated with daffodils. The parade is a four-part sequence, traveling through Tacoma, Puyallup, Sumner and Orting. This famous parade is held every year in April.