Plant Your Tulip Test Garden

Journey North recognizes that many schools continue to provide remote learning opportunities for their students. While buildings remain closed, educators are wondering how they can still participate in Journey North's Tulip Test Garden. Like you, Journey North is offering hybrid opportunities.

If you can plant a tulip test garden at your school, please register and have your school garden located on our Journey North Tulip Test Garden map.

If access to school yards is restricted, educators can still work with students. Students can plant one bulb or many bulbs in a pot on their windowsill or in their backyard. Educators can work with students remotely to share the wonders of planting a Tulip Test Garden. If students are under the age of 13, they will need to work with an adult to register with Journey North and to enter the location of their tulip garden.

There are now 103 Tulip Test Gardens planted. Welcome and thanks for participating!

Peggy in Kodiak, AK: "We've been bouncing back & forth between virtual & in-person and almost waited too long to plant our tulips. Thankfully we came back to in-person on Nov. 13. It took some strong shovel work to break through the top frozen layer of soil to plant our bulbs. Good thing we got it done. It snowed the day after we planted and it might be here to stay!" (11/13/2020)

Cindy in Charlottesville, VA: "The 5th graders at Tandem Friends School planted under a Maple tree. We named a lot of our tulip bulbs. Our mulchy soil was very rooty and it was hard to dig our seven-inch holes for the tulips. We predict the bulbs will come up in March." (11/16/2020)

Melissa in Bryson City, NC: "Our 5th grade class planted a tulip test garden for our school to observe." (11/19/2020)