Bulbfields in the Netherlands

[Lvandelft]

Early in the evening we drove a little around in our area.
Maybe the colours could be better some hours earlier, but then there is so much traffic
that you cannot stop everywhere.
I made one picture called Art with Hyac. flowers.
Every spring people are invited to show mosaics or other things made with bulbflowers.
And tourists like it very much.

Here some pictures:

[Lvandelft]

And here one of this morning, which I forgot before

[Lesley Cox]

Nice lessons in perspective here. I like the storks too. Maybe they should be put in touch with the travel giraffe. I'm sure they'd have many floral tales to share.

[Thomas Huber]

 

Thanks Luit!
Any Crocus fields around your hometown for photos next year?

[Lvandelft]

Thanks Luit!
Any Crocus fields around your hometown for photos next year?

There are not so many Crocus fields inour area Thomas, most of the appr. 460 Ha. will
be grown in the North of Holland.

Here a few others from my "frontgarden"

[Gerard Oud]

Luit, you have got a "house" with a view.

[Lvandelft]

So it is.   

[Paul T]

Luit,

The scale of these operations is just mindblowing.  Amazing!!! 

[Joakim B]

Thanks a lot Luit
I hope You continue to take us to the Bulbfields. Most of us will not have achance to see them and flying to Amsterdam might not be on the wright time of the year to see the fields but one can see them (around Amsterdam)from the plane but it is nothing compared with this pictures a lovly magnum scale to bulbs that I have nerver seen before.
Hope You will be able to show more.

PS we grow quite some narcissus and tulips ourself in Sweden too, but with Dutch bulbs.

Kind regards
Joakim

[Armin]

Luit,
simply fascinating to follow up your postings!

Is the "frontgarden" Tulipa fosteriana "Madame Lefeber" syn. "Red Emperor" ?

[Lvandelft]

Luit,
simply fascinating to follow up your postings!
Is the "frontgarden" Tulipa fosteriana "Madame Lefeber" syn. "Red Emperor" ?

No Armin,
I know that my neighbour grows Tulipa greigii "Ali Baba", so this will probably be it?
But, as the label was on the other side (200 m.) of the field and it is better not to walk
through the fields, when so many tourists are around, I am not sure.

[Armin]

Thanks Luit,
at least both resemble.
A fantastic color spectacle! 

[Lvandelft]

On Sunday, when such beautiful weather, we made a cycletour in our area and
I made pictures of some fields again.
I think these will be the last fields for this year, because it is above 20 C. every day now.

First the fields near my house, where only here and there some colour is left.
The yellow colour on this picture is a field in front of my house with Tulipa Washington (2 pict.)
The next fields are farther away and I show on one picture a machine which is
used to cut the flowers of when almost overripe.
on pict. 06 there was such a machine used some days earlier.

Bulbfield 01               
Bulbfield 02 [T. Washington]                   
Bulbfield 03 [T. Washington]         
Bulbfield 04           
Bulbfield 05                   
Bulbfield 06             
Bulbfield 07[machine]             
Bulbfield 08                 
Bulbfield 09       

[Lvandelft]

and here the last fields, worth showing here:

Bulbfield 10             
Bulbfield 011         
Bulbfield 012

[David Nicholson]

Just lovely Luit. Will the bulbs be lifted and stored, and if so how are they stored please, and are there other crops grown on the bulbfields?