The tulips are busting out all over the place in Pella, with the annual Tulip Festival still over a week away.

Jeanette Vaughan, community services director for the City of Pella, says they’re putting the word out in hopes some people might make an early “tulip trek.”

Pella plants between a quarter-million and 300-thousand tulip bulbs in some 180 beds every year and Vaughan estimates 60-to-70-percent of them are now in full bloom.

Pella celebrates its Dutch heritage May 2nd through 4th.