Palmerston North Red Tulip Walk For Parkinson’s
Sunday 30th October – Walk Palmerston North
The Red Tulip Walk is a community & family-oriented walk. The walk aims to bring the community together to raise awareness for Parkinson’s in a safe and fun way.
Held on the Sunday 30th October 2022 the Palmerston North walk is a community & family-oriented walk. The walk will take you along a stunning 5-km circuit track starting from Panieri Park to the He Ara Kotahi bridge and return or continue to the Fitzherbert Bridge for the return 7.5km walk.
Walk starts 9am Sun or Rain.
Join Celebrity walker and ex-All-Black Christian Cullen. The walk aims to bring the community together to raise awareness for Parkinson’s in a safe and fun way. The overall theme will focus on the health and well-being of all whnau.
Tickets $10 Adults Children Gold Coin
Tickets on the day or QR access via your phone for payment process by credit card.
All proceeds to Parkinson’s services in the Manawatu Region.
Information or inquiries to Allison Smith 0276615937 or Stephen Parsons 7355 7447
Event supported by, City Honda, Mitre 10 mega, Beam scooters, and Zenith Fitness.
Make Awareness Month Meaningful
During the month of April, I will be spending time telling others about how exercise is medicine for Parkinson’s. Is there something you can do for Parkinsons Awareness Month?
One suggestion is to start by making people around you more familiar with this disorder. It is important to help others learn more about this neurodegenerative disease.
Let me know what you are doing if you decide to participate in some activity for Parkinsons Awareness Month.
However, as you approach your disorder with steely-eyed-determination, treat every new day as a day for Parkinson’s awareness. It will make a difference in your approach to treatment and hopefully yield an improved quality-of-life.
Whats The Link Between Tulips And Parkinsons
Its spring and flowers are bursting into bloom all around including tulips.
In 2005 the tulip was adopted as the official symbol of Parkinsons at the 9th World Parkinsons Disease Day Conference in Luxembourg. However, the flower had been informally associated with the disease for more than 20 years prior to that.
Back in 1980, a Dutch horticulturalist named J.W.S. Van der Wereld who was living with Parkinsons developed a new red and white variant of the tulip.
He named his newly cultivated flower the Dr James Parkinson tulip in honour of the medico who first documented the features of Parkinsons disease in his 1817 publication An Essay on the Shaking Palsy.
The Dr James Parkinson tulip is officially described as the ..exterior being a glowing cardinal red, small feathered white edge, the outer base whitish the inside, a currant-red to a turkey-red, broad feathered white edge, anthers pale yellow.
Today wearing the red tulip raises awareness and shows support for people living with Parkinsons and their families globally.
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The Compassion Of James Parkinson’s
In 1817, James Parkinson published “An Essay On The Shaking Palsy.” When you read about James Parkinson, you notice his intelligence and compassion for helping others:
“James Parkinson worked as a general practitioner in the semi-urban hamlet of Hoxton, northeast of the City of London, where he had been born, and where he lived all his life. In addition to his daily work in general practice, James Parkinson was a public health reformer, an advocate of infection control in London workhouses, a medical attendant to a Hoxton madhouse, a writer of political pamphlets and childrens stories, a geologist and fossilist, and the author of a textbook of chemistry.”1
The essay itself very carefully and accurately portrays Parkinsons disease, which he called shaking palsy. He did not name the disorder after himself.
Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot suggested that the Parkinsons name deserved to be linked to the disorder that he had so accurately described thus, “Maladie de Parkinson” .
I Alone Cannot Change The World But I Can Cast A Stone Across The Waters To Create Many Ripplesmother Teresa
In February of 2022, a high school sophomore named Nikhil Sampath reached out to DAPS about volunteering. Specifically, Nikhil wanted to teach people with Parkinsons disease how to make origami. Nikhils passion, energy and genuine desire to help others is second to none. Nikhil describes what led him to DAPS, When I was 11 , my grandfather passed away, leaving a kernel of grief in my heart that remains to this day. After his passing, I vowed to use my grief and my intimate understanding of the struggle Parkinsons disease patients and their families go through to make a positive difference in the world, a motivation that directly led to my work with DAPS. As Nikhil began to share his story and how it related to Parkinsons disease, an idea was born: The Community Tulip Project. With Nikhils help, guidance and initiative, origami tulip workshops were held around the Dallas metroplex, including a virtual workshop to reach those around the country. The goal was to create origami tulips as the tulip is the international symbol for Parkinsons disease. After 900 origami tulips were made from those across the area and the world, a local high school volunteered to make wreaths out of the tulips. A total of 4 wreaths were created, representing:
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Parkinsons Disease And A Tulip
If you were to see a yellow ribbon logo, youd think of supporting our troops. A pink ribbon is associated with supporting breast cancer awareness. But a tulip?
Ah, the tulip. Several years ago, the red tulip was adopted by the global Parkinsons community to bring awareness to the disease.
The red tulip, with a fringe of white, became the official symbol of Parkinsons disease at the 9th World Parkinsons Disease Day Conference in Luxembourg on April 11, 2005 .
The tulip is described in detail as the exterior being a glowing cardinal red, small feathered white edge, the outer base whitish the inside, a currant-red to turkey-red, broad feathered white edge, anthers pale yellow.
This particular tulip was developed by J.W.S. Van der Wereld, a Dutch horticulturist who had Parkinsons disease. He named the flower after James Parkinson, the doctor who first described the disease as the shaking palsy.
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Why The Red Tulip
The Parkinson’s red tulip started in 1980 when W.S. Van der Wereld, a Dutch horticulturalist who had Parkinsonâs disease, developed a red and white tulip and named his prized tulip the ‘Dr. James Parkinson’ in honor of the man who first described his medical condition and to honor the International Year of the Disabled. The European Parkinson’s Disease Association uses a red tulip as their logo based on the Dr. James Parkinson tulip. On April 11, 2005, the Red Tulip was launched as the Worldwide Symbol of Parkinson’s disease at the 9th World Parkinsonâs disease Day Conference in Luxembourg.
The red tulip you see here today was designed by an early-onset Parkinson’s patient named Karen Painter and her friend Karen. This stylized tulip has leaves that are shaped like the letters ‘P’ and ‘D’. Karen and Jean started a grassroots movement to make this tulip design become recognized as the symbol for Parkinson’s Disease Awareness, the way the pink ribbon has done for breast cancer.
âWe have a dream that Karenâs stylized tulip will become the symbol not for one Parkinsonâs organization or event, but for the Parkinsonâs community nationwide,â Jean says. âIt will serve as a reminder that we all must work together to find a cure for the millions of people living with Parkinsonâs disease.â
Get Your Parkinsons Tulip Lapel Pin
Buy your Parkinsons Tulip Lapel Pin For £2
There are various colours or symbols which identify a charity , for Parkinsons awareness it is a red tulip. This was developed by J.W.S. Van der Wereld, a Dutch horticulturist who had Parkinsons disease. In 1981 he dedicated and named this tulip Doctor James Parkinson. This tulip is described as, exterior being a glowing cardinal red, small feathered white edge, the outer base whitish the inside, a currant-red to a turkey-red, broad feathered white edge, anthers pale yellow.The tulip is rarely available and, at any rate, any red tulip will do as the symbol. There is no need to plant a specific variety of red tulip.
As part of our fundraising plan Solihull Branch have had some lapel pins produced in the style of the Parkinsons Tulip, which has leaves in the shape of a P and D. These are now available to buy for £2 each or 3 for £5.All of the proceeds will go into the Branch funds. To get your Tulip pin send us an email to: giving your name ,address and a contact number, or call 07737 978018 leaving the same details and we will call you back to arrange delivery.
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Annual Tulips For Hope Parkinsons Fundraiser Gets Underway Volunteers Needed
Demoucelle Parkinson Charity volunteers are once again selling tulip bulbs to support Parkinsons disease research. If you would like to join the team or buy some packets of tulip bulbs, please email
Demoucelle Parkinson Charity volunteers are once again selling tulip bulbs this autumn in support of Parkinsons disease research.
This year, passionate gardener Isabelle has decided to sell packets of bulbs that will produce pink tulips.
While the official symbol for Parkinsons disease is a red and white tulip, we have decided to vary the colours we offer each year in the hope that people will buy our bulbs annually and thereby bring variety to their gardens and support Parkinsons research, Isabelle said. This years deep pink will create a striking display in gardens and containers next Spring.
Each packet of 20 bulbs will be sold for 15 euros and Isabelles aim is to sell 900 packets with the help of 45 volunteers. The bulbs will be available from the end of September until early December and Isabelle is hopeful that more people will join the volunteer sales team.
It is a wonderfully simple way to get involved. Selling 20 packets of tulip bulbs to friends, family and colleagues is a manageable target both in terms of time and energy. Every sale sparks a conversation about Parkinsons disease and helps to fund a promising late-stage research project, she said.
If you would like to join the team or buy some packets of tulip bulbs, please email
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There are several different variations of the PD tulip symbol, including:
The Parkinsons Disease Foundation specifically uses a yellow tulip to denote optimism and hope. The three petals are used to promote the symbol of their three-pointed mission: Hope through research, education and advocacy. This tulip was redesigned annually for PDF and run as a contest, always incorporating the three petals of the original design. It more recently appears, however, that the yellow three-pronged tulip has been replaced by a blue ribbon design as the new brand for the Parkinsons Disease Foundation.
The tulip has been adopted as a symbol by many Parkinsons organizations around the world and over the years. Similarly, the European Parkinsons Disease Association chose the tulip as the symbol for its logo in 1996.
A more modern red tulip with rounded leaves, recognized by many in the United States as the more recent representation of Parkinsons disease, was designed by early-onset Parkinsons patient Karen Painter.
I decided, upon my query of the different logos, to see just how many different designs I could find that represent Parkinsons disease. There are at least 21 different logos with graphics someone designed. If you include photographs of tulips people used to make a logo, it puts the number over 60, and more than likely there are even more.
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A Red Tulip For Parkinsons Disease
If you were to see a yellow ribbon, you would mostly connect it to supporting our troops. Likewise with a pink ribbon being in support of finding a cure/advocating for breast cancer awareness.
But why choose a tulip for Parkinsons disease, and a red one, at that?
The red tulip doesnt symbolize love but is a symbol adopted by the Parkinsons community worldwide to bring awareness to Parkinsons disease .
Even though the red tulip hadnt been associated with Parkinsons awareness since the early 1980s, it wasnt until April 11, 2005 that the red tulip, with a fringe of white, was set in motion as the official symbol of PD at the 9th World Parkinsons disease Day Conference in Luxembourg.
The tulip is described in detail as the exterior being a glowing cardinal red, small feathered white edge, the outer base whitish the inside, a currant-red to turkey-red, broad feathered white edge, anthers pale yellow.
The new, red tulip was developed by a Dutch horticulturist and Parkinsons disease patient by the name of J.W.S. Van der Wereld. The tulip was named after Dr. James Parkinson, the doctor who discovered Parkinsons disease, who originally named the disease the shaking palsy. Not only did the tulip receive the Award of Merit that year from the Royal Horticultural Society in England, but it also was presented with the Trial Garden Award from the Royal General Bulb Growers of Holland.
There are several different variations of the PD tulip symbol.
Local Chapter Selling Bulbs To Raise Funds For Research
Caroline McConnelltimerupdate
The tulip is recognized as the symbol of hope for Parkinson’s disease. It all began in 1980, when Dutch horticulturist J.W.S. Van der Wereld developed a red and white tulip that he named the Dr. James Parkinson tulip, in honour of the man who first described this medical condition in 1817. On April 11, 2005, this red tulip was launched as the worldwide symbol of Parkinson’s disease at the ninth World Parkinson’s Disease Day Conference in Luxembourg.
The Peterborough Parkinson’s chapter is participating in the annual fundraising tulip bulb sale and invites you to purchase its bulbs for your garden. It’s the perfect time of year to plant them, so they’ll be ready to bloom next spring. Funds raised will be used locally to support the activities of the Peterborough chapter.
Bulbs for sale include the white-edged red Parkinson Tulip, strong Gold Tulip and white Emperor Tulip. The cost is $8 for a package of 10 bulbs or two packages for $15
Orders can be placed by calling 705-743-4628. They are also available at the Saturday Peterborough Farmers’ Market at Citi Centre or at the Wednesday Charlotte Street Market. For further information about Parkinson’s or the local chapter, call 705-742-0871.
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Applefest Bingo takes place Friday. The canteen opens at 5:30 p.m. bingo starts at 6:30 p.m. sharp. The prize board is sponsored by Applewood Retirement Residence. Play $10 games for $15 and enjoy Applewood’s famous apple cake.
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Did You Know
April was chosen as Parkinsons Awareness month to honor James Parkinson and his discoveries. Dr. Parkinson was a neurologist who published a paper in 1817 An Essay on the Shaking Palsy. The disease was later named after Dr. Parkinson many years after getting noticed by the medical community. Read the full essay here
The red tulip is the symbol of Parkinsons Disease. This red tulip was developed by J.W.S. Van der Wereld, a Dutch horticulturist who had Parkinsons disease. He dedicated and named this tulip for James Parkinson.
There is no standard diagnostic test for Parkinsons. Many individuals living with Parkinsons are not diagnosed for several months if not years after noticing their first symptom.
The cause is unknown. Genetics cause about 10 to 15 percent of all Parkinsons. The other 85 to 90 percent of cases are classified as sporadic . Although there is no cure, treatment options vary and include medications, surgery and lifestyle modifications.