May
17
Crocus flower
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It feels like summer here, so I am ready to dig into my spring bulb pictures which I didn’t publish yet and start uploading them on pictures of tulips… So here comes for some other spring flowers!
Crocus flowers
Most crocus flowers are very early spring flower bulbs, sometimes you can even find a crocus in the snow 
Normally a crocus will bloom long before Easter.
The grass like crocus leaves show a typical white line all along the center of the leaf. These days you can still get crocus flowers at your local florist, although I do prefer them in my garden before other plants start growing: let nature run its course
The most common crocus is the Crocus sativus producing saffron! Unlike the "normal" crocus, saffron blooms in autumn. Now don’t start eating your spring crocuses at home nor in your garden, as they are poisonous!
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Sep
18
Visit Keukenhof 2008
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I saw an advertisement about visiting the tulip gardens in Keukenhof, and I just need to tell you that Keukenhof would be for next year 2008 only! So if you are planning to visit The Netherlands next year, make sure you spend one day in Keukenhof Gardens: you will never ever get another chance to see so many tulip and other spring flower bulbs in 1 garden!
Keukenhof started of after the second world war by the association of Tulip flower growers of Holland, to show their tulip flowers, to sell tulip flowers and to exchange the bulbs.
It then evolved to 80 acres of land with about 6 million bulbs planted each year attracting about 10 million visitors. You will see approximately thousand varieties of Tulips and a lot of other spring flower bulbs like Hyacinths.
Keukenhof is quite near to Amsterdam and if you are lucky you can find me there, as I love to visit it each year just to smell the perfume of the Hyacinth fields
