Everybody knows that Holland is very identical to its famous tulip flower. my most favourite type of flower! it grows in spring time.  we can actually find tulip everywhere around Netherlands during spring since local people often grows this flower in their home garden. however, spring this year came a little bit later, so i’m not lucky enough to see the whole country decorated by tulip. the flower itself was long ago taken from the Central Asia (Turkey) to Holland, brought by the Dutch ancient. and it surprisingly grew very well in the Netherlands’ land making it famous ever since. the cold weather is very suitable to grow this flower. usually, the seed is planted during October or November. spring is when the flowers bloomed. it takes a long time, huh?

aunt took me to the keukenhof tulip garden. as i told before, due to the late coming of spring, i wasn’t lucky enough this year to see the tulip grew quite a lot and tall. in the open garden there were only some tulips have grown fast. some were still very tiny and even haven’t started to grow (still in the seed). luckily, in the closed garden (named Wilhelm-Alexandre), i could find various kinds of tulips. maybe they’ve been given some special treatment in this closed garden so the flowers grew quite fast and tall.

and below are my most favourites. the deep red tulips, and black tulips. well, it certainly not really black. but very close to black, a very deep purple. sorry, i don’t think the picture for black tulip i took is good enough. but i just want to put it here. hope it doesn’t let you down. hehe..

black tulip

deep red tulip.

i wish someday on my wedding day, i have these tulips decorated the party. teehee.. kidding. and i love keukenhof garden! the weather was really good in the morning. we left the house at 7 am for the sake of good weather as we had seen the weather forecast earlier (rain in the afternoon). and it’s all worth it. hihi..