🇳🇱 The flowers of the Netherlands
36 pages from the Netherlands: its flowers, the things made with them and the places to see them, across 30 cities and regions.
The flowers, flower customs and flower places of the Netherlands on Phool. An overview of the country's plant life has not been written yet.
Flower experiences in the Netherlands
🇳🇱 Amsterdam · All yearThe floating Bloemenmarkt on the SingelA row of flower stalls built on barges along Amsterdam's Singel canal, selling bulbs, seeds and cut tulips.
🇳🇱 Aalsmeer · All yearWatching the Aalsmeer flower auction at dawnThe world's largest flower auction, seen from a gallery above a hall of moving carts near Schiphol airport.
🇳🇱 Lisse · Apr to MayThe bulb fields of the Bollenstreek in bloomLong stripes of hyacinth, daffodil and tulip on the sandy flats between Haarlem and Leiden, at their best in mid to late April.
🇳🇱 Lisse · Mar to MayKeukenhof in tulip seasonA woodland park in Lisse planted each autumn with millions of bulbs and open for about eight weeks in spring.
🇳🇱 Lisse · Apr to MayCycling the bulb fields from Lisse to the dunesA flat day's ride on marked cycle paths through flowering bulb fields between Lisse, Hillegom and Noordwijk.Cities and regions of the Netherlands
Aalsmeer 4Amsterdam 4Haarlem 2Keukenhof 2Lisse 2Zundert 2Almere 1Anna Paulowna 1Arcen 1Bollenstreek 1Bovenkarspel 1Curaçao 1Delft 1Duin- en Bollenstreek 1Groningen 1Haarlemmermeer 1Hillegom 1Hollands Kroon 1Leiden 1Makkum 1Noordoostpolder 1Noordwijk 1North Holland 1Oud-Valkenburg 1Rotterdam 1Royal FloraHolland 1South Holland 1Utrecht 1Venlo 1Zoetermeer 1
Decoration
Floristry
The craft and trade of arranging and selling flowers
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 3 more · Arrangement
Place
Vondelpark
Amsterdam’s 47-hectare city park with gardens, ponds, theatre and statues
Amsterdam, 🇳🇱 Netherlands · Flower garden
Decoration
Floral industry
The global trade and business of growing, selling, and arranging flowers
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 7 more · Custom
Ivy-leaved geraniumPelargonium peltatum
A trailing plant with fleshy, lobed leaves and pale mauve to pink flowers
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Vondelpark: Dguendel, CC BY 4.0, source
- Keukenhof: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Floristry: Joachimj, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ivy-leaved geranium: Hedwig Storch, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Aalsmeer Flower Auction: No machine-readable author provided. Miriam8~commonswiki assumed (base, Public domain, source
- Floral industry: Satin66Flower, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bloemenmarkt Amsterdam: Massimo Catarinella, CC BY-SA 3.0, source