The Botanica Tulip Festival is a newer flower festival that happens at the former location of the Chilliwack Tulip Festival in the Fraser Valley.
The Botanica Flower Festival opened for the 2025 season, but in a scaled-down version. It opened on the Easter Long Weekend, and the following weekend. The festival almost didn’t open due to problems with some of the tulips. However, because of the reduced number of flowers, organizers discounted their rates accordingly. Tickets were available only on weekends and only at the gate.
If you want to see tulips, but don’t want to pay full price to see millions of them at the Lower Mainland’s main flower festivals, then we recommend dropping by to see the Botanica Tulip Festival. Admission is just $5 for adults, but free for seniors and children (ages 16 and under). You can also buy fresh cut tulips at $2 a stem, or pick a pail of them for $50 and fit as many as you can inside. (Note: Up to between 80 and 100 can actually fit, depending on how much you squish them in.)
Other flower festivals that happened in the Fraser Valley in April and May this year included the Harrison Tulip Festival and Abbotsford Tulip Festival. There was also the Sweet Spring Flower Festival at Greendale Acres in Chilliwack and a Tulip Forest at Maan Farms in Abbotsford. The first two festivals feature beautiful fields full of millions of colourful flowers. The second two places, meanwhile, have far fewer tulips, but tons of fun activities for young children and their families. Admission to the Botanica Tulip Festival is less than a third of that everywhere else. That might not be the same again next year however.
Visit the Botanica Flower Festival website for full details about the event.
Botanica Tulip Festival in Chilliwack
Chilliwack’s Botanica Tulip Festival happens in the spring. The venue is a farm located at 41310 Yale Road in Chilliwack.
This year’s festival was going to feature 14 acres of flowers which were going to bloom at different times over the course of the season. There were going to be nearly two million bulbs to see at the 2025 event, including over 80 types of tulips. There was also going to be a Ferris wheel on site which visitors could ride for no additional cost. Because of problems with this year’s tulip crop, the end result was far fewer tulips (which is why organizers had drastically cut their admission prices).
The Botanica Tulip Festival is a family-friendly event to enjoy in the spring. It’s a nice place to spend time in the outdoors and take photos. Guests can also pick and take home tulips of their choice from some of the fields. One or more food trucks are usually on site each day as well.
Where is the Botanica Tulip Festival
The Botanica Tulip Festival takes place at 41310 Yale Road in Chilliwack in the Fraser Valley. The farm is just off the Trans-Canada Highway about an hour’s drive from Vancouver. To get there from the city, take exit #109 and then the first right turn. From there, you’ll see the tulips and the farm’s entrance.
Admission Prices for the Botanica Tulip Festival
Ticket prices for the festival were going to vary depending on your age and the day you went. As mentioned above, however, organizers cut their rates to just $5 per adults, and free for children and seniors.
Weekday tickets in 2025 were going to cost $15 for adults (ages 16 to 64), $12 for seniors (ages 65 and above), and $12 for children and youth (ages 5 to 15). On weekends tickets were going to cost $5 more for adults and $3 more for seniors, children and youth. Kids under the age of 5, however, can always enter for free regardless of the day.
In years when the festival operates, the Ferris Wheel ride is included with admission and there’s free parking as well. There wasn’t a Ferris Wheel, however, in 2025.
Visit botanicaflowerfestival.com for tickets and the event’s official website.
About the Festival
The Chilliwack Tulip Festival was a famous flower festival. It took place from 2017 until 2023 at the same 41310 Yale Road location as the new Botanica Tulip Festival. The former festival rented the property from the Pauls who are a multigenerational farming family and partners in the former attraction. The other family behind the Chilliwack Tulip Festival moved to a different farm in Agassiz in 2023 and now hosts the Harrison Tulip Festival.
Interestingly, the Chilliwack Tulip Festival used to be called Tulips of the Valley. It started in Agassiz over 15 years ago, moved to Chilliwack for a few years, and then moved back to a new location in the Harrison region.
In 2024 the Pauls family planted tulips on their property, at the previous festival’s original Chilliwack location. This explains why the new Botanica Tulip Festival has different hosts and the new name, but same farm venue.
The new Botanica Tulip Festival is beautiful, with up to close to two million bulbs in about 14 acres of fields. It’s the only flower festival in the region with a Ferris Wheel (in years when it operates at full capacity). It’s also the only one where you can pick tulips to take home with you (from a designated area). What’s more, the festival is carbon negative, which is like being carbon neutral, only better (or at least that was the case in 2024).
PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES AT BOTANICA
All Lower Mainland flower festivals have cool displays like swing sets, bicycles and other objects that make excellent photo opportunities, and Botanica has its share of them, including one particularly unique one.
The old car in the photo above is “Chilliwack’s Pink Car.” It’s not just any old relic. You might even recognize it, especially if you live in the Fraser Valley. For over 30 years the iconic vehicle was mounted eight metres in the air on top of the Pick-a-Part automotive car parts shop in Chilliwack. It’s a 1972 Plymouth Gold Duster. The car was a recognizable landmark in the city for years.
Botanica Flower Festival Video
The following video is of the Botanica Flower Festival in 2024. It was taken on April 17th, so about a week after the place opened for the season. As you’ll see, it was a beautiful sunny day when we went. The farm looked amazing.
In the video you’ll see a number of the displays that are popular for photo taking. There is a bicycle with views of the flowers and mountains in the background. There is also the Botanica farm truck, “Chilliwack’s Pink Car” and views of the Ferris Wheel from both the ground and from up high. Also as you’ll see, dogs are welcome at the festival.
Other Information
Visit the Botanica Flower Festival website for full details about the event.
See our articles about the Harrison Tulip Festival and Abbotsford Tulip Festival to learn about similar festivals in the regions. Greendale Acres is also very popular, as is Fantasy Farms at Easter for families with small children to visit.
Other articles that might be of interest include the following:
- Chilliwack Events and Attractions
- Best Places in the Fraser Valley
- Spring Activities in Vancouver
- Festivals and Events Calendar
