While there are still plenty of Pella’s signature flowers to enjoy this week during the 89th Tulip Time, a special project that aimed to provide extra color is now on display in various tulip beds throughout the community.

Pella Historical Museums partnered with local woodworker Jerry Dyke, who helped design a pattern to hand make hundreds of wooden tulips that were then painted by Pella residents of all ages. Randy Wineland also assisted with their creation.

Executive Director Jessi Galligan says with the early peak bloom and many beds down to their stems, this project was created in March as a way to reinvigorate color into those flower beds and also call back to the first Tulip Time, when dozens of wooden tulips were planted because the community did not have any of the flowers in the ground in anticipation for the first festival.

Those who painted wooden tulips can collect them after festivities conclude following Saturday’s lighted parade.