Keukenhof Gardens: The Second Time
I saw it on the way in.
Would it feel the same on the way out?
Or had I been tuliped out for the day?
Keukenhof tulip fields, Lisse, Netherlands. All photos by Parsley & Petal.
Cyclist by tulip fields, Keukenhof, Lisse, Netherlands.
Red tulip fields, Keukenhof, Lisse, Netherlands.
I know that color. I had been once before, years ago, with my younger sister, our Global Floral Editor-at-Large, Southern Rose Correspondent, and Keukenhof expert, long before I ever thought of myself as a gardener.
It did. But it was better.
The flowers looked unreal. Like walking through a Willy Wonka set—for flowers.
The colors, saturated.
The combinations—eye candy.
All photos by Parsley & Petal.
I was delightfully exhausted by the end of the day and knew I’d be back again.
Some of the first flowers I planted in my Easter Egg Bedwere tulips and daffodils with muscari.
I may have come back for Keukenhof, but it was the moments in between, as I wandered the city streets of Amsterdam, that caught my eye. For a sneak peek, you can see those here.
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