Holland - Flower Queen

Posted under General by ruola

   

Hardly there are many countries where people are so fond of plants and flowers as in Holland. I couldn’t but praise the talent and work of Dutch plant breeders who developed such a great variety of plants with all imaginable and unimaginable colors and forms.

I just don’t know any other country where people are so much fond of decorating their houses inside and outside with our green friends.

My first impression of Holland (I should notice I started not in big cities like Amsterdam or Hague but in small quite villages), is that there’s a secret competition between owners of these beautiful gardens: everyone tries to make his house and garden more special, more beautiful than others. The curious fact is that they also use vegetables for decoration. It is not rare when you can see vegetables like pumpkin somewhere close to the front door among pots with flowers.  Knowing some methods of growing they manage to have a needed word like ‘welkom’ on the vegetable. See the picture.

You can buy plants almost everywhere – in numerous plant specialized shops and at any supermarket. The choice is really amazing. All plants are blooming and looking very healthy.  

There I found another type of Cylamen: its leaves look very much the same as my cyclamen has but its flowers are more than twice bigger and their color is white. The plant looks so touching and nice.

Another interesting thing is chrysanthemum available in all possible colors: red, pink, orange, white and so on. It seems to me that chrysanthemum is one of the favorite plants among Dutch people because you can find almost in every garden.