Visiting a Tulip Grower...

I went along on an outing planned by the PTA to a local tulip growing business. This family business in Wassesnaar was started in 1920; that year they sold 10,000 tulip bulbs. Now they concentrate on selling cut tulips, which grow in greenhouses. Amazingly, they sold 800,000 tulips between October and April.

These machines cut the ends off the tulips and tie them into bunches. It’s funny that the tulips we buy in the florists are grown in greenhouses and all those lovely tulip fields we see are actually grown strictly for the bulbs.