This post has all pictures featuring me. Usually I do not post many
pictures with me...However this time I was lucky to do the
flower-fields-tour with a good friend and colleague of mine, who is an
amazing photographer (dont miss the chance to enjoy the fantastic
gallery of Roland here).
It was also him, who asked me what happened with all these amazing
flowers we have seen (+photographed of course:-). A lot of my visitors
get really shocked (...and some even dont believe me) that these
beauties are simply cut and the thrown away, usually next to the fields
(thats how I know what happened with them).
...and then the next question arrived: why are they planting them at all?
Tulips and the other spring flowers reproduce every year. If the bulb is
planted not too deep (around 7-8 cm deep than it will grow bublettes.
These bublettes (the tulip grows usually 2 till 3 f them) are separted
(after the mother bulb is dug out around 1,5 months after the flower
dies off) and can be sold. And this is the reason of why so many flowers
(tulips, daffodils and hyacinths) are planted in the low lands :-) The
Netherlands exported 3,6 billion flower bulbs in 2010, the biggest
customer in the lasty ears has always been the US...
