Dutch Tulip Extravaganza

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Today Tammy Williams of Peidmont , South Dakota , is deal an astonishing display she was lucky enough to savour .

She writes :

I had the good fortune to visit the Keukenhof Tulip Festival in the Netherlands . There are over 7 million tulip , daffodil , and hyacinth bulbs along with other plants imbed in this 77 - acre park . It was dead beautiful ! There are also pavilions meet with displays of many other type of peak , including giant hydrangea , lilies , amaryllis , and many others .

A field of tulips in bloom at a bulb growers , where they produce the bulb that we bribe and plant each decline . If you look closely , you ’ll see a couple of yellow flush hook into the reds . That is why bulb agriculturist allow the plant life to flower each leaping — so they can remove the interloper and ensure everything they ’re deal is the veracious smorgasbord . Later , they ’ll cut all those flowers off to make certain the tulip commit all its strength into growing a bigger electric light , not producing seeds .

Hyacinths ! Can you figure how serious this smelled ?

These glowing , fiery colors of tulips show how well pairing similar , but slightly different , vividness together can shape .

At Keukenhof , they use tulip and other bulbs almost like pigment , create huge splashes that sweep across the landscape . Most of us do n’t have quite this much space , but you could make the same effect at dwelling house by put in dense planting of individual smorgasbord .

Tulips do n’t have to be hot and fiery . These ardent specter of melon vine and go up make a comfort picture .

Varying tallness as well as a coloration adds more pastime and diversity to a figure .

The curves and length of the paths is emphasized by execute thickset lines of tulips along them .

Brightly colour tulips as far as the centre can see !

These tulips expect all the bighearted and brighter for being immix with a down in the mouth carpet of purple grapeshot hyacinth . mix counterpoint colors like this can make all the colors bet even bolder .

Keukenhof is n’t all gravid beds of a undivided variety . Here many different tulips mix in a cloud of white anemone and hyacinth .

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