Keukenhof Lisse

There’s nobody keeping count, but every year some seven million bulbs go into the ground at Keukenhof. They’re all planted by hand, according to a carefully planned layout. For Keukenhof’s considerable powers of attraction lie in the sophisticated ways in which the Netherlands displays its art in bulb growing every spring. The colours and shapes of the flowerbeds are designed to harmonise with one another, and care is taken to avoid any impediments to the line of sight. Hundreds of thousands of visitors flock here every year, most of them from abroad. Here they see why the Netherlands is by far the biggest bulb exporter in the world. And here they also learn that not all tulips come from Amsterdam.