May
29
Tulip flowers in the rain
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What do tulip flowers do when it rains?
Blooming bulb on a rainy day
On a rainy day, tulips flowers close their colourful petals, so stamen and pistil inside the tulip flower stay dry.
It’s not that a tulip can take a walk to look for shelter 
Yet flowers are much more than seemingly motionless creatures!
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May
3
Tulip dragon at Keukenhof
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I have been living in Europe for ages now, but that doesn’t prevent me to love my Chinese roots and to get excited when China get’s in the news again for the Olympic games or its tulips… kind of
A symbol of Chinese culture has been made authentic Dutch tulips : 24000 tulips were used to make this Chinese Tulip Dragon in Keukenhof in the Netherlands.
… I do prefer real dragons but just imagine: 24.000 tulips…
Of course the dragon, measuring 10 by 15 meter, stands for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games that will start at 8-8-2008. That are 3 ‘8’s…
For those who still have no clue…an Olympic flag is flying next to the dragon, for good wishes for the first Summer Olympic Games in China ever.
For those that still don’t know what Keukenhof is all about: it’s the most popular spring attractions in the Netherlands, displaying six million blooming tulip and many, many other spring flower bulbs.
Apr
24
Keukenhof
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Keukenhof gardens
Just a reminder that the Keukenhof gardens are half way its 2 months of showing visitors the most magnificent spring gardens.
This last Easter, the Easter flowers in Keukenhof in the Netherlands reached their peak of visitors in the history of Keukenhof!
Keukenhof Easter Flowers
(Beautiful Purple Tulips)
Picture of Tulips from Chicago Sun Times
Purple Tulips
The best spot on earth to walk through purple tulips in between the garden flowers of Keukenhof. The spring bulbs are now in full bloom at the Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands.
I do love to stroll around in floral shops with big green houses, but nothing compares to Keukenhofs’ 7 million spring flowers, mostly tulips, yet also earlier in spring daffodils and hyacinths. 80 acres of spring flowers and tulip fields outside the Dutch town of Lisse, nearby Amsterdam, will still be open until may 20th.
Dutch Tulips near Chicago
For those who can’t make it to Europe this year, the tulip festival in Holland, Mich., is as close as it gets to the Dutch tulip gardens. Holland is a quaint town with Dutch roots, about a 2.5-hour drive from Chicago. Its annual tulip festival takes place May 5-12.
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