Bulbfields in the Netherlands

[Lvandelft]

Today, when driving home from Lisse, I saw these two fields with
mostly botanical tulips. I thought it was all over already.
O.k. in a few days it be over.

[Lvandelft]

Yesterday, when I was on a cycletour, I saw some nice fields.
I hope you like them too.

Anemone coronaria field 1.
 Anemone coronaria field 2.
 Anemone coronaria field 3.
 Allium Globemaster

[David Nicholson]

Luit, the beauty of your flowers makes up a little for the absence of hills. If I got on a bike around here I wouldn't last very long

[mark smyth]

How did I ever miss these brilliant photos!

[Lvandelft]

Thank you Mark!
But on this Forum it is impossible to see all photos. One day away is enough to miss 5 or more new topics.
We have to make our choices, or never go out to work in the garden etc.    

[Paul T]

Mark,

More to the point.... after 18 months how did you ever find this topic?    I can't find topics that were posted in a month ago, let alone 18 months ago.  

Very nice to be reminded of Luit's photos though.  The scope of the plantings is just amazing.  

[mark smyth]

Paul I was researching Tulipa greigii

[Paul T]

Ah, that makes sense.  I just thought you were wandering through the topics and came across it.

[dominique]

Luit
Why do the growers put straw on the fields ? Protect from cold in winter ? Thank for all
Dom

[Lesley Cox]

Well lucky you Mark. I've never yet been about to find anything I wanted from the Search box, even when I use it right in the relevant subject. E.g. when I go to the Iris board, I still can't find a reference to an iris I know was made a while back.

[mark smyth]

Lesley it doesnt always work for me. Do you know you must first go back to the forum home page and search from there? That's how it works best for me

[mark smyth]

Luit I Googled your area. If I lived near you I would walk the fields all day every day

sorry people I forgot to reduce the image size

[Paul T]

Wow, Mark.  That puts is all in a different perspective doesn't it!! 

[Lvandelft]

Dom, without straw the wind would blow most of the sandy soil covering the bulbs away !
Left on the Marks picture you see a piece of the North Sea, so we have very much wind here.
Hyacinths get more straw than tulips because they are less hardy as long they have not enough roots.

Mark, at the moment it's planting time so you may stay at home 
I show one of your maps again with the road (red) where I live in the middle of the fields.

[cohan]

fascinating..i was there (netherlands) many years ago on a school trip, and we cycled among some of those bulb fields (and in the dunes!), but didnt see all the variations...
for some reasons the blues and violets/lilacs of the hyacinths are the most surprising to see on a field scale (we have yellow fields here, so thts not so exotic) --give another meaning to 'colour field painting'!