🇳🇱 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
Place
Keukenhof
A vast Dutch flower garden famous for its spring tulip displays
Lisse, 🇳🇱 Netherlands · Flower garden, Mar to May
Place
Vondelpark
Amsterdam’s 47-hectare city park with gardens, ponds, theatre and statues
Amsterdam, 🇳🇱 Netherlands · Flower garden
Place
Anna Paulowna
A Dutch town in North Holland named after a Russian queen
Anna Paulowna, 🇳🇱 Netherlands · Flower garden
Place
Floriade
The Netherlands’ once-a-decade international garden and horticultural exposition
Almere, 🇳🇱 Netherlands · Festival or show
Place
Aalsmeer Flower AuctionBloemenveiling Aalsmeer
The world’s largest flower auction hall in the Netherlands
Aalsmeer, 🇳🇱 Netherlands · Flower market
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
- Anna Paulowna: Dolfy, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Floriade: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Aalsmeer Flower Auction: No machine-readable author provided. Miriam8~commonswiki assumed (base, Public domain, source
- Bloemenmarkt Amsterdam: Massimo Catarinella, CC BY-SA 3.0, source