Great news for fans of bulbous flowers. The world's largest bulb flowers garden Keukenhof opens a new season of 2011. This extraordinary flower park is located in Lisse, near the capital of Holland Amsterdam.

The royal park in the Netherlands Keukenhof flower opened

Every spring it blossoms millions of tulips, attract hundreds of thousands of tourists coming from all over the world to admire this magnificent spectacle. Exposition Park is dedicated each year to any one country. In the past, in 2010 Dutch tulips bloomed in honor of Russia. Over 40,000 of our compatriots have visited Keukenhof in 2010. The season of 2011 in Keukenhof park is in honor of Germany. If last year in the Keukenhof can be seen from the onion by different symbolic attributes of Russian culture, for example, nesting dolls from the flowers, now reign here, Brahms, Beethoven, Bach, Nietzsche, and even Karl Marx.

On the royal park of flowers - briefly: history, project description

Keukenhof (niderl. Keukenhof - Kitchen garden) - a world famous royal park of flowers in the Netherlands. Also known as the Garden of Europe (English Garden of Europe). Located almost on the coast between Amsterdam and The Hague in the small town of Lisse (niderl. Lisse), at the entrance to which can be seen everywhere signs the route on the Keukenhof. Keukenhof Garden, located on 32 acres of land, is famous throughout the Netherlands for its flowers and large tulip meadows. The park has 4.5 million tulips planted 100 different varieties. There are three greenhouses: with tulips all sorts and shades, golden daffodils and lilacs in a lavish, with luxury red roses in the other, and absolutely fabulous exquisite orchids in the third. Park open for visitors every year from mid-April to mid May and is the absolute leader in landscape display flowering plants, dominated by bulbous. In late April, there is a parade of colors «Bloemencorso Bollenstreek» - a procession of different compositions, composed of flowers. The park was designed in 1840 by architect Zohterom, who in his time built the Vondelpark in Amsterdam. For the first time in the Keukenhof flower exhibition held in 1949 on the initiative of the lord mayor of Lisse Lamboya. Keukenhof is now annually attracts more than 800,000 tourists from different countries.

Photos of the world famous Royal Park Flowers