Well it should really come as no surprise to us that Holland should be home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world now… should it?
And the real star of the Dutch Golden Age should come as no real surprise either because the Tulip has been an integral part of Holland’s culture since the 16th century, and it seems only fitting that the country should play host to a 79 acre landscape paradise which occupies fifteenth -century hunting grounds with its namesake country house turned castle. The old Keukenhof gardens had been providing cooking herbs for the manor over a very long period of time, hence the name referencing "kitchen" ("keuken" in Dutch).
And the real star of the Dutch Golden Age should come as no real surprise either because the Tulip has been an integral part of Holland’s culture since the 16th century, and it seems only fitting that the country should play host to a 79 acre landscape paradise which occupies fifteenth -century hunting grounds with its namesake country house turned castle. The old Keukenhof gardens had been providing cooking herbs for the manor over a very long period of time, hence the name referencing "kitchen" ("keuken" in Dutch).
Keukenhof's modern gardens were designed in 1949 by father and son landscape architects Louis Paul and Jan Davis Zocher which was to act as a showcase for growers of the Netherland's main export of flowers. With such a vast array of exciting hybrid blooms hitting the markets for the first time, the idea for Keukenhof Gardens was born. The father and son design team of Louis Paul and Jan Davis Zocher then united several gardens of varying styles to display the vast, exciting assortment of Holland’s new hybrid blooms which were set to flood the markets for the first time.
And ever since, from March through to May, beds of tulips, crocuses, hyacinths, daffodils, and more have run like rivers beneath its trees. And like many of the world’s horticultural giants, visitors return year after year to see Keukenhof's annual theme executed in living blooms; others return for the perennial joys like the floating nature garden, the Japanese garden, and not forgetting the enclosed historical garden that displays the blooms of rare, heirloom cultivars.