Tulips
Seven interesting facts about tulips
The Netherlands and tulips are inextricably connected to each other. But do tulips actually originate from the Netherlands? And how many tulips are exported every...
Tasty appetizers: Tomato tulips
They look like flowers but every single part of this tulip is edible: cherry tomatoes with tasty cream cheese filling and chives for the...
National Tulip Day: pick tulips for free in Amsterdam
Did you know that you can pick a beautiful bouquet of tulips for free at Amsterdam's Dam Square on National Tulip Day Saturday 20...
Preparations for Keukenhof’s next season
Did you know that the gardeners at Keukenhof have already planted the first bulbs for next year's flower season? The coming months approximately 7...
The myth of blue tulips
Did you know that tulips come in pretty much every color of the rainbow, except blue? Pure blue tulips only exist by paint or...
Hortus Bulborum: Unique spring flower garden
The Hortus Bulborum is the only bulb garden in the world with more than 4,000 different varieties of tulips, hyacinths, daffodils and other colorful...
Flowers from the Netherlands
Did you know that about 80% of all flower bulbs traded worldwide come from the Netherlands?
Flower parades in the Netherlands 2018
Flower parade Bulb Region Noordwijk to Haarlem via Keukenhof The Flower Parade on Saturday 21 April spans a route of 40km from Noordwijk via Keukenhof to Haarlem. This...
Origin of windmills, tulips and wooden shoes
Did you know that windmills, tulips and wooden shoes are not originally from the Netherlands? The Persians already had fixed windmills in the 7th...
17th century tulip mania
Did you know that a tulip mania took place in the Netherlands in the 17th century? Some species of tulips costed more than a...