"A large number of growers are choosing to close down their business because they don't expect any change in the short term," said Michel van Schie of Royal HollandFlora, the cooperative that runs the world's largest flower auction in Aalsmeer, south of Amsterdam. Supermarkets have pr...
I’m standing below sea level. I know that because I picked up a handful of dirt and it came with some shells, and this marks sea level according to the official Amsterdam measure…zero. Imagine: A couple generations ago, this buoy bobbed in the harbor. What was the bottom of the sea...
Home to more than canals and coffeeshops, Amsterdam is a city where beauty exists beyond the tulip fields and austere, Dutch Baroque architecture. Art lovers and history buffs will find this European capital truly intoxicating.
Go Dutch next spring; Get planting tulips now for a wealth of colour in 2016 The film, set in 17th-century Amsterdam, depicts an affair between a married woman and an artist hired to paint her portrait - and the lovers gamble on the tulip market hoping to raise enough money to run away...
Fantastic…. Absolutely fantastic. Our guide Remco born and raised in Amsterdam. What a better person to spend the day with! He not only showed us the city and shared his knowledge but took us outside of the hustle and bustle to the country side, ...
Walking inside flower fields, you will transfer fungi, bacteria and diseases from field to field. This destroys tens of thousands of bulbs. And when people lay in the rows of tulips, they will break the flower prematurely, increasing the chance of disease on that bulb and the surrounding ones...
When the calendar turned to April, two weeks into the shelter-in-place order that had become the new normal, I decided to take a break from work and leave the house for something other than a walk around my neighborhood or the weekly trip to the market. I would visit one neighborhood ...
Where to stay in Amsterdam Don’t forget travel insurance Keukenhof Gardens: a little bit of history The history of the Keukenhof Flower Gardens goes back to the 15th century when there was a fruit and vegetable garden at the spot supplying the kitchen of Castle Teylingen. Two centuries later...
had in all Holland, and those not of the best. One was in the possession of a dealer in Amsterdam, and the other in Harlaem[sic]. So anxious were the speculators to obtain them, that one person offered the fee-simple of twelve acres of building-ground for the Harlaem tulip. That ...
It is also being poured in Door 74, the Amsterdam speakeasy bar founded by well-known spirits educator Philip Duff. “It took us two years before we truly succeeded,” says Bouter. “But now is when it really starts. We’ve already bought almost 90.000 pounds of tulip bulbs for our new...