They can be boldly black and pale pink, have the texture of velvet or surprise with stripes of patterns, be huge and less thimble - among tulips reigns the same variety as in the ranks of the human species.
It is a gift that the season of their heyday is short and fleeting: in a short time, gardens with endless fragrant flower beds manage to visit hundreds of thousands of travelers who are looking for beauty. It is not surprising - in addition to tulips, these places are replete with hyacinth and other flower beds. In our material we will talk about several of the largest gardens on the planet.
Europe's Flowering Garden – Keukenhov Park
Where to look for fields of flowering tulips, if not in Holland - the universally recognized homeland of this flower? In keukenhof Park from March to May, a magnificent sight is available to observation - a real sea of flowers.
The promenade through the park can be endless - the end and edge can not be seen even with binoculars, and for a full inspection of the park, on the territory of which almost five million flowers were planted, moreover, manually, it will take several days.
All this is located forty kilometers from Amsterdam.
Flowers are planted in the fall, and everyone can, if desired, get a couple of bulbs for planting on their site, flower bed or in a pot. Spring seedlings are not recommended to buy: it is believed that the chance to see them in the form of inflorescences is minimal.
Pralormo and the show "Messier tulip"
In spring, near the largest metropolis of Northern Italy - Turin, a flower festival is held, during which participants and spectators can explore the most outstanding and non-standard varieties of these bulbous plants.
On the territory of the medieval fortification at a time place up to hundreds of thousands of plants, each of which is skillfully and elegantly inscribed in the landscape and puzzled by its own role. Every year the composition is replenished with new varieties in order to surprise and amaze the imagination of the participants from time to time.
Guests of the event can not only enjoy the floral beauty, but also take part in competitive events of various orientations, seminars on garden art, rest in cafeterias, restaurants and tea houses, visit the castle with an excursion - a masterpiece of medieval architecture. Everyone can buy souvenirs.
Trautmannsdorf Castle
Despite the German-language name, it is located in Italy in the middle of a picturesque botanical garden. Previously, the fortress was owned by a noble family of Austro-Hungarian princes, who were in favor of the Habsburg dynasty. For a decade and a half, Empress Sissi loved to visit here, and she was delighted with the local landscapes and nature.
Today, this place has a reputation as a pearl of the Tyrolean mountains. It is a conglomerate of small gardens cut into small plots, on which more than a hundred thousand plants, including at least 20,000 tulips, are systematically planted. No less attention deserves a collection of plants from the African tropics and Amazon jungle.
Reserve "Arabatsky"
To feel the aroma and beauty of the flowering tulip garden, it is not necessary to go abroad - the largest reserve with a length of more than 600 hectares is located on the Arabat Spit, separating the Sea of Azov from the rotten Sivash Bay.
Having admired enough iridescent rainbow multicolor, you can look at the medieval fortress, which once broke dozens of Cossack detachments and tsarist armies.
Nikitsky Botanical Garden
Taking care of the flora is a true vocation of the staff of this institution, since some of the flowers planted here were bred by previous directors and researchers, for example, K. T. Klimenko: he created the varieties "Crimea" and "Yalta".
Every year in the Yalta garden is held parade of flowers, during which all the diversity of the place appears before us in a concentrated form. The collection of the exhibition consists of 300 varieties plus at least a thousand hybrids, the fruits of the activities of hardworking specialists in breeding.
Village Yantarnoe
Few people know that the Crimean territory can boast of a place whose appearance amazes the imagination not only in the spring. Flowers planted in the ground here occupy one and a half hundred hectares. In the summer, in addition to them, the eye also has something to cling to - all cover the fields, but these plants begin to bloom first. Tulips in these places began to be bred in the seventies of the last century - for industrial purposes: the bulbs grown here then went into sale throughout the territory of the USSR.
Haarlem
The infinity of fields planted with tulips is an integral feature of the Haarlem landscape. It is also located near the capital. Local "plantations" give 11% of the entire Dutch tulip market.
Emirgan Park
Do not forget about the country, whose symbol, as in Holland, is a tulip. In Turkey, there is the most amazing flower bed on the planet: right in the capital, on 500 hectares of land, in a magnificent park, you can watch a fantastic action, during which a huge territory turns into a flower sea.
Tulips are planted in a certain order so that they are intricate compositions. Figures, images and paintings can lie in wait in the most unexpected place - for example, in the middle of the purple sea you find a proud swan of flowers.
There is also the Tulip Museum, where, in addition to a variety of specimens of amazing plants, you will be told about the history, national features of floriculture, its social role and symbolic significance, not to mention the traditions associated with tulips. All excursions are completely free.
