Rece Planet Amsterdam

2011-05-12T19:59:00.000+02:00

We go karting with some of my colleague in Ede Netherlands office. Had so much fun but also sadness fills our hearts because of what happen to Raluca (new friend of mine) Get well soon.

KEUKENHOF Trip

2011-05-12T19:51:00.000+02:00

The internationally-renowned Keukenhof poster has been admired around the world for 60 years. View each individual poster here, or download the unique Keukenhof 60th anniversary commemorative poster.

History

Where Keukenhof is situated now, was a hunting area in the 15th century. Herbs for the kitchen of the castle of Jacoba van Beieren were also collected here; hence the name Keukenhof.

The current park was a section of the sizeable estate of Slot Teylingen, with beautiful untamed bushes and dunes. After the decease of Jacoba van Beieren Keukenhof fell into the hands of rich merchant families. Baron and baroness Van Pallandt invited landscape architects J.D. and L.P. Zocher, designers of the Amsterdam Vondelpark, to make a design for the garden around the castle. This design, in the English landscape style, has always been the basis of Keukenhof.

At the moment the estate belongs to a Foundation. On the initiative of the Lisse mayor of that time and a number of leading flower bulb growers and exporters, an open air flower exhibition was organised here for the first time in 1949. This expanded to an annually recurring event that has always drawn great numbers of visitors from all over the world. This is how Keukenhof became the park that we now know.

Most of the flowers are almost dying when we visited the Flower Farm but still beautiful... and I love it. :)

Thanks to my colleague Marjet for bringing us to this wonderful place. :)

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Rece Planet Amsterdam

KEUKENHOF Trip