Seven thousand citizenry visited San Francisco ’s Union Square last weekend to pick a innocent sweetness of tulips during the second annual American Tulip Day . One hundred thousand tulips create a vibrant carpet of pink , cherry-red , yellow , and orangish peak grown in the United States from tulip medulla oblongata exported from the Netherlands .

The Dutch exportation more than 1 billion flush incandescent lamp to the United States annually . The tulip bulb is the most popular bulb species with 450 million bulb sent to the US . Other popular flower species exported by the Dutch include lily , daffodil , hyacinths , and gladiola . The Dutch exportation nearly 100 species of flower light bulb around the human race annually .

American Tulip Day , organise by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands , Royal Anthos , and iBulb , was designed to make a California version of National Tulip Day , which is held every January in Amsterdam . American Tulip Day serves two purpose : to give San Franciscans a glimpse of natural spring in the essence of wintertime and highlight the strong relationship between the Dutch and American floral diligence .

About 40 % to 50 % of Dutch flower bulbs exported to the United States are purchased by consumers who implant the medulla oblongata in their garden and by municipality that plant the bulbs in public car park . The other 50 % to 60 % of Dutch bulbs are sell to garden professionals who grow bulbs in their glasshouse for the product of cut flowers that are then trade to retail merchant . The tulips used for American Tulip Day are supplied by a California cultivator .

“ American Tulip Day is the perfect example of Dutch horticultural expertise and American ingenuity that creates a flourishing partnership of success , ” said Gerbert Kunst , Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in San Francisco . “ Every year , a the great unwashed of new tulip varieties are cultivated in the Netherlands that are ultimately used to beautify menage , garden and public place throughout the United States . ”

The winner of the Dutch bulb sphere in the United States is root in longstanding cooperation with the US Department of Agriculture and innovation foster with American universities . Dutch imported flower bulb are delivered to the US under the USDA pre - clearance programme . For more than 65 years , Dutch bulb have been inspect in the Netherlands by officials of the USDA ’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service before shipment to the US . The Dutch bulb sector also partners with Cornell University ’s Flower Bulb Research programme to goad innovation in the US .

“ American floral producer bring Dutch bulbs to lifespan , and San Francisco ’s Union Square is the premier location to expose the bounty and variety of the Dutch tulip , ” said Henk Westerhof , Chairman of Anthos / iBulb . “ We truly desire that San Franciscans enjoyed American Tulip Day . These American - develop flowers produced from Dutch bulb signal that springiness is on its way . ”

American Tulip Day is part of public discreetness broadcast by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Washington , D.C. Later this calendar month , the embassy will highlight the grandness of the Dutch horticulture sector when it holds Tulip Week , a slate of events at the residence of Dutch Ambassador Henne Schuwer . Tulip Week will include a dark-green wall and 10,000 tulip and flowers that are topically produced , as well as imported from the Netherlands on show . The serial publication of events will showcase Dutch innovation in horticulture and focus on sustainable urban deltas .

seed : Embassy of the Netherlands