Amsterdam’s Floating Flower Market
Buckets of fiery red tulips, mauve hyacinths and golden daffodils cluster the stalls. Sweet scents mingle and fill the passage. You will see tourists clutching maps and asking each other “is this it?” The answer is yes. They have found the floating flower market but were expecting something larger and grander.
After reading recommendations in tourist brochures and guidebooks, the floating flower market can be a bit of a disappointment. To begin with, the market is only 300 metres long and you...
April 22nd, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: amsterdam market, Shopping, things to see in Amsterdam, tulips
The Tulip Bubble and How it Burst
... Amsterdam. The latest fashion dictated that flowers were brought inside to cheer up the rooms. The wives of wealthy merchant were besotted with tulips, because they were so colourful. As with all new trends, friends showed off and wanted to outdo each other.
The most sought after were the rare frilly-leaved tulips. Seventeenth century painters included them in their paintings to attract attention much like glossy magazines of today exploit Gucci bags and Rolex watches. It was not until the 20th...
March 16th, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: history, top-feature, tulips
Keukenhof Flower Garden: A Kaleidoscope of Colour
... two months every year – 18 March until 16 May 2010.
A team of horticulturists and a legion of gardeners work miracles. They plant by hand 80,000 tulips, 120 varieties of daffodil and numerous hyacinths, lilies and crocuses. A new round blooming behind the old one ensures flowers everywhere at all times. Plan your visit mid-season, late April – early May, and catch the tulips in full glory.
Try to arrive early before tourist groups pack the pathways. But with 15 km of walking paths, 280 benches,...
March 2nd, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 3Filed under: day trip from amsterdam, Family Friendly, tulips
Amsterdam Tulip Museum
Amsterdam Tulip Museum is on Prinsengracht opposite Anne Frankhuis. When you enter the museum, a kaleidoscope of colours greets you, red tulips, white lilies and dazzling daffodils. You may think that you are in the wrong place. The tulip Museum is both flower shop and museum.
The Tulip Museum is housed in the airy basement room and tells the history of the tulip. tulips are one of the best Dutch export articles, but they are not endemic. How the tulip was brought to the Netherlands from central...
January 14th, 2010 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 2Filed under: featuredarticle, museums, Shopping, tulips
Goodbye DC Cherry Blossoms…Hello Tulips!
... next year.
But that doesn’t mean the National Mall isn’t still full of beautiful color.
The annual explosion of spring flowers, mostly tulips have bloomed in flower beds all over the mall, most notably at the National Park Service’s Tulip Library, on the northern border of the Tidal Basin, between the Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument.
One other smaller tulip library is maintained at the Netherlands Carillon, next to the Iwo Jima memorial, across the Potomac River.
Here’s...
April 20th, 2009 | Jon Rochetti | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Attractions, Family Friendly, flowers, gardens, nature, tulip garden, tulips, Washington DC
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
The season has been a bit later this Spring, but now the tulips and daffodils are in full bloom. Up to April 27 you can take a tour of the tulip fields in Agassiz B.C. in the Fraser Valley. Make a day out of it; take a walk around the fields; enjoy a bite to eat and browse local products grown in the fields.
Make a day out of it. Take a walk around the fields; enjoy a bite to eat and browse local produce grown in the fields.
There’s forty acres of tulips located on beautiful Seabird island...
April 18th, 2009 | thevancouverguide | Read More | Comments: 0Filed under: Attractions, Family Friendly, farms, History & Information, Outdoors & Recreation, produce, Restaurants & Bars, Shopping, Tours, tulips
Where Is Spring?
... weather condition.
Golden Daffodils
I was glad to see that in the parks and in my garden the hyacinths and daffodils are in bloom, not yet the tulips, still too cold. The Keukenhof, the Flower Garden in Lisse opened last week. I haven’t been there for ages, but this year I will go, in April. Hope the weather is sunny and the tulips in bloom. I will let you know when I have been.
photo credit: personal collection
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March 27th, 2009 | Marianne Crone | Read More | Comments: 1Filed under: bulb fields, flower garden, keukenhof, News, Outdoors & Recreation, spring flowers, tulips
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