Springtime Photos of Netherlands: Beautiful Keukenhof Garden & Tulip Flowers

SPRING….like

you’ve never seen it before !

The Beautiful

Keukenhof Garden & Tulip Flowers of Netherlands

In springtime, the lowland

area by the North Sea is carpeted with fields of gladioli,

hyacinths, lilies, daffodils, crocuses… and, of course, tulips

The patchwork quilt of

colours in the Keukenhof park, just outside Lisse in South

Holland, Netherlands , is a veritable feast for the eyes

Amsterdam’s flower market –

the Bloemenmarkt – reflects the country’s passion for cut

flowers and plants

Spring in Keukenhof Garden

is one of the main tourist attractions of the Netherlands

Around seven million bulbs

are planted each year in the park at Keukenhof, in an area of 32

hectares

The bulbs of Keukenhof are

re-planted each year according to the current trends and in

collaboration with a number of gardening magazines

The best way to appreciate

the full glory of the Dutch spring is to hire a bike and cycle

one of the tourist routes among the bulb fields

Tulips originated in the

east and were brought to Holland from the Moslem Ottomen Empire

in the mid 1500s

The Bloemenmarkt – set on

the capital’s Singel canal and said to be the world’s only

floating flower market – has a score of stalls where you can buy

all sorts of plants, flowers, bulbs and seeds

Keukenhof – literally

‘kitchen garden’ – is part of the hunting grounds of the ancient

Teylingen estate