Bloemencorso Zundert 2015

Bloemencorso Zundert 2015 Zundert, a small town in the Netherlands located at the Belgian border, hosts the world’s biggest flower parade, featuring twenty floats of twenty meters long and ten meters high. Flower parades are a tradition that is met…

Tulips in Holland on Periscope

Tulips in Holland on Periscope Have you seen the new app Periscope yet? It is an unique app made by the people of Twitter and let you broadcast live video to the world. The first time when it was introduced…

Bloemencorso 2016

Bloemencorso 2016 The bulb-growing area is a unique part of the Netherlands. This district is situated in the urban agglomeration of Western Holland, between the cities of Haarlem and Leiden, only 20 km from Amsterdam. Characteristic of this area are the…

A record year for Keukenhof

A record year for Keukenhof Keukenhof has reached a new record with 1.175.000 visitors in 2015. The visitors enjoyed Keukenhof and awarded it an 8.7. The most beautiful spring garden in the world is proud of the results. 2015 is…

Aalsmeer Flower Festival – 20 & 21 June 2015

Aalsmeer Flower Festival showcases Aalsmeer’s floral history, innovation and beauty The second edition of the Aalsmeer Flower Festival promises to be an inspiring weekend celebrating all things green and growing, with the bonus of lots of music, food and fun,…

Paul McCartney honoured with Dutch tulip

Paul McCartney honoured with Dutch tulip Amsterdam, June 7, 2015 – Just before his first concert in the Ziggo Dome Paul McCartney christens his own tulip: a red tulip with distinctive white border. The botanical name is Tulipa ‘Paul McCartney’.…

Do you know how to fold an Origami Tulip?

Do you know how to fold an Origami Tulip? I recently traveled to Japan and fell in love with the country and with the art of origami. The simple way of folding paper in a shape it that it looks…

Happy Gardening Exercise Day!

Happy Gardening Exercise Day! Every year on the 6th of June a special day is celebrated: Gardening Exercise day! Whether you have a small garden like mine or a large landscape garden like the Keukenhof, there is always something to…

Topping tulips

Topping tulips Anna Paulowna, 25 may 2015 – An employee of contractor Vermaire Breezand tops the last parcel with white tulips (Tulipa ‘Ice Wing’) from grower De Goede at Anna Paulowna. During the Whitsun weekend the last of a total of 10,000 hectares bulb were…

How to write Keukenhof?

How to write Keukenhof? Keukenhof season 2015 is unfortunately over. At Tulips in Holland we are looking back to a wonderful season with lots of interactions with visitors to the tulip fields. We get a lot of emails with questions…