U-Pick Tulips

How it Works

• Arrive ready to have fun!

• Stop by the self-serve potting shed for instructions and picking baskets.

• Pick/Pull the tulips you want to buy and create your own wonderful bunch of tulips!

• When you are done picking, return to the potting shed to wrap your flowers. Brown wrapping paper and twine will be provided!

• Checkout at by placing cash/check in the money box, online through our website with credit card or through your Paypal app.

Hours

Every day (in season) from 7:00am - 8:00pm

Royal Oaks Farm is a self-service operation. In the potting shed you will find containers, clippers and rubber bands to bunch your tulips for transport home.

Pricing

• $1.50/stem

• Volume Discount:

  • 12 stems for $17

  • 25 stems for $35

  • 50 stems for $70

  • 100 stems for $130

Payment is based on the honor system. Pay by cash, check (payable to: Royal Oaks Farm), paypal or online through our website by credit card.

How to Pick a Tulip

For the longest vase life, harvest when the flowers are still partly in bud, with 50%+ of their color showing on the outer petals. At Royal Oaks Farm we treat our tulips as annuals and want to encourage you to pull up the entire plant, bulb and all, during harvest. This gives you maximum stem length. To pick tulips this way, simply grasp the stem as close to the ground as possible and pull straight up. Pulling from the ground level is important because if you pull higher up, the stem could snap leaving you with a short tulip or worse, just the flower. Don't worry if the bulb comes out of the ground when you pull the tulip stem. Simply snap off the bulb and leave it lay in the tulip row. Please note that these bulbs are coming out of the ground to early in the season to produce a bloom next year and will not rebloom even if you save and replant them.

You are also always welcome to cut tulips with our provided snips the ‘old-fashioned’ way too!

Please note: As a Pennsylvania agricultural operation, we do not assume any liability for injuries or other difficulties you may have while visiting our property.