15th Annual Tulip Festival at Ashton Gardens April 12-May 4, 2019 (Closed Sundays) | 9 am - 8 pm Welcome to the 15th annual Tulip Festival at Ashton Gardens! Thanksgiving Point was founded in 1995 to cultivate transformative family learning. In 2004, the first Tulip Festival drew thousands to explore hundreds-of-thousands of tulips in hundreds of varieties in search of flowers and warmer weather. Today, you’ll find that same mission guiding a journey of botanical beauty and hands-on fun with some fun new surprises along the way. Visit us after the conclusion of the event when Tulip Festival bulbs are dug up and sold, allowing you to create your very own Tulip Festival.