The Dows Lake parking lot is off-limits to cars during the Tulip Festival.

"The parking lot at Dows Lake will be closed to the public due to the Ottawa Hospital's New Civic Campus development, but the festival has made arrangements for a "Tulip Shuttle" service to Commissioners Park that will make stops at the Westin Hotel, the National Gallery of Canada, the Fairmont Chateau Laurier and the Lord Elgin Hotel." ("Canadian Tulip Festival planning in-person events this spring." by Ted Raymond, CTV News, March 20, 2022.)

All of the trees that surround the parking lot are being removed and that includes the trees that face Carling Avenue. 

Maps that show the exact location of trees that are being removed. Google: New Civic Development for the Ottawa Hospital, Environmental Impact Statement and Tree Conservation Report, pages 44,45,46 and 47 out of 73 pages.

House of Commons Ottawa April 10, 1974. Mr. Haliburton (Progressive Conservative) 1.) "How many tulip bulbs are purchased each year for Ottawa? 2.) How many years are the bulbs re-used? 3.) When the bulbs are disposed of, are they sold by public tender or destroyed, and, if destroyed, a) what is the manner of so doing? b.) what is the cost?"

The Hon. Ron Basford (Minister of State for Urban Affairs) Liberal: "I am informed by the National Capital Commission as follows: 1.) Approximately 200,000 to 250,000 tulip bulbs are purchased each year by the NCC. The number varies depending upon which priority display areas are replanted. 2.) There are four major priority floral display areas, they are Dows Lake, Parliament Hill, 24 Sussex and Rideau Hall. These bulbs are normally replanted every second year."

"If the first year display is poor they will be replaced the next fall, conversely if the second year display is particularly good they will be kept a third year. The other floral displays are planted when necessay every three or four years. 3.) The tulip bulbs are heeled in after they are removed in the spring, sorted during the summer and the flower size bulbs are replanted in the fall in the seconary floral display areas such as the borders along the Driveway system. a.) The remaining bulbs which are too small to produce a flower are buried; b.) Approximately $250 dollars."

The view from Commissioners Park. The drawing is from Reimagine Ottawa.

From: The Glebe Report.

A 1988 Ottawa Citizen article. The vacant federal land between Carling Avenue and Prince of Wales Drive, west of Preston Street is called Queen Juliana Park.