GPOD on the Road: Keukenhof

Celebrating one of the world’s great flower displays

Today Marilyn Regnier is take us along on a trip of a life-time , to see the biggest spring bulb display in the world .

A few old age ago I was able-bodied to visitKeukenhof Gardensin Lisse , Netherlands . This was a bucket - leaning stumble for me and one I will never forget .

Keukenhof , known as the “ Garden of Europe , ” encompasses 79 estate , with 7 million spring incandescent lamp showcased by 100 companies . The park is unresolved from mid - March to mid - May each year for its bounce flower show .

While the history of Keukenhof dates back to the 15th century , it was 1949 when a mathematical group of 20 leading flower light bulb growers and exporters planned to use part of the Keukenhof landed estate as a spring park . The parkland opened its gate in 1950 . This yr , 2024 , will be the seventy-fifth version of Keukenhof that has developed into a world - famous drawing card . While 236,000 hoi polloi visited the park in 1950 , today nearly 1.5 million multitude travel to this awful showcase of flowers .

At the entrance the bulb display is already unbelievable . I know how mixing in some taller tulip varieties add interest and line to the carpeting of shorter bloom .

A river of daffodils blooms under a canopy of flower Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . ruffle dissimilar varieties of daffodil together like this append pastime and diversity to the display . To get the best effect , combine only varieties that bloom at the same sentence in each layer so you get one incredible plosion of bloom .

Most of the bottom at Keukenhof are implant out in geometric traffic pattern . Here , long ribbon of flowers snake through the garden .

Planting together tulip variety with similar but not identical flower colors like this makes for a display that feels harmonious and knowing but still interesting and full of detail .

One of the iconic feature of Keukenhof is the river of grape vine hyacinths ( Muscariarmeniacum , Zones 4–9 ) winding between beds full of burnished tulips . grape vine jacinth are long-wearing , long - hold up perennial . They are also very low-cost , so it is totally potential for you to create your own blue river of these bulb in a sunny spot at your home .

The tulip at Keukenhof are used almost like blusher , splashing the landscape with colouring material .

Planting tulip where they can be backlit by the sun shows them off to their right-down best . As you may see from the crowds in the backcloth , the park is incredibly popular , but it is so well plan that you may walk through and love despite the many people there with you .

Crown imperial ( Fritillariaimperialis , Zones 4–8 ) has nod orangish flush with an strange tussock of foliage above each cluster of blossom . Here they are underplanted with daffodils to sum up an surplus level of interest .

We ’ll be back to see more of this unbelievable garden tomorrow .

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