🇳🇱 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
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Bollenstreek Flower Parade
A spring flower parade from Noordwijk to Haarlem in the Netherlands
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Parade or display, April
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French formal gardenjardin à la française
A garden style shaped by symmetry, order, and geometric design
🇫🇷 France and 5 more · Garden style
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Floristry
The craft and trade of arranging and selling flowers
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 3 more · Arrangement
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Wreath
A ring-shaped decoration made from flowers, leaves, or other materials
🇬🇷 Greece and 7 more · Arrangement
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Cut flowers
Fresh flowers and buds trimmed for decoration and display
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 6 more · Arrangement
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Bloemencorso
Annual flower parades with decorated floats in the Netherlands and Belgium
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 1 more · Parade or display
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Zundert Flower Parade
A Dutch parade of giant dahlia-covered floats built by local volunteers
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Parade or display, September
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Flower parade
A parade of floats, vehicles and people decorated with flowers
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 6 more · Parade or display
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Canadian Tulip Festival
Ottawa’s annual celebration of tulips and friendship with the Netherlands
🇨🇦 Canada and 1 more · Parade or display, May
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Still life
Artworks showing arranged objects like flowers, fruit, and vessels
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 4 more · Art or design
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Tulip festival
Annual spring festivals celebrating tulips in bloom across the world
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 7 more · Parade or display
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Tulip maniatulpenmanie
The 17th-century Dutch craze for rare tulip bulbs and the world's first market bubble
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Custom
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Allotment garden
A rented plot for growing food and flowers, often with a small shed or hut
🇩🇪 Germany and 6 more · Garden style
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Dutch garden
A formal, geometric flower garden style from the Netherlands
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 1 more · Garden style
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DelftwareDelfts blauw
Dutch tin-glazed pottery known for blue and white floral designs
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Art or design
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Floral industry
The global trade and business of growing, selling, and arranging flowers
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 7 more · Custom
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bollenstreek Flower Parade: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- French formal garden: Picture taken by deror avi on June 2005., Attribution, source
- Keukenhof: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Floristry: Joachimj, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Wreath: Олександр Майоров, Майкл Ендрюс, Світлана Буланова, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Cut flowers: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bloemencorso: Dekraaie, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zundert Flower Parade: Stichting Bloemencorso Zundert, CC BY 4.0, source
- Flower parade: Foto van Hassel BV, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Canadian Tulip Festival: Andrew Scheer, CC0, source
- Still life: Willem Kalf, Public domain, source
- Tulip festival: GoToVan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Aalsmeer Flower Auction: No machine-readable author provided. Miriam8~commonswiki assumed (base, Public domain, source
- Tulip mania: Unknown, 1637, Public domain, source
- Allotment garden: Cryonic07, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dutch garden: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Delftware: Daderot, CC0, source
- Floral industry: Satin66Flower, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bloemenmarkt Amsterdam: Massimo Catarinella, CC BY-SA 3.0, source