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  2. Flower bulb cultivation in the Netherlands - Wikipedia

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    It straddles southern North Holland and northern South Holland. This area, which includes Keukenhof flower garden, is the best known flower region. There are a few flower fields in the area south of Leiden (Wassenaar and Voorschoten) There are a few flower fields on the South Holland islands of Voorne-Putten and Goeree-Overflakkee. These fields ...

  3. Bulb Fields - Wikipedia

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    Bulb Fields, also known as Flower Beds in Holland, is an oil painting created by Vincent van Gogh in early 1883. It was donated to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC in 1983. Bulb Fields was Van Gogh's first garden painting, in oil paint on canvas mounted on wood.

  4. Gardens Alive! - Wikipedia

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    Gardens Alive! spent $10.75 million to acquire Breck's, Gurney Seeds, Henry Field's, Michigan Bulb, Spring Hill Nursery and Stark Bros. Stark Bros. was immediately sold off. The Foster & Gallagher businesses were integrated, in part, in Lawrenceburg, while the Spring Hill facility in Tipp City, Ohio, [ 3 ] has continued to grow through acquisition.

  5. List of Dutch inventions and innovations - Wikipedia

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    Named after the famous auctions of Dutch tulip bulbs in the 17th century, it is based on a pricing system devised by Nobel Prize–winning economist William Vickrey. In the traditional Dutch auction, the auctioneer begins with a high asking price which is lowered until some participant is willing to accept the auctioneer's price. The winning ...

  6. Tulip mania - Wikipedia

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    A Satire of Tulip Mania by Jan Brueghel the Younger (c. 1640) depicts speculators as brainless monkeys in contemporary upper-class dress.In a commentary on the economic folly, one monkey urinates on the previously valuable plants, others appear in debtor's court and one is carried to the grave.

  7. Tulip festival - Wikipedia

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    Holland Ridge Farms U-Pick Tulips in Cream Ridge, New Jersey. The most tulips available to pick, anywhere in the world. The Tulip Festival of Albany, New York is set in Albany’s historic Washington Park. Each year, this traditional Albany event greets spring with thousands of tulips blooming in a myriad of colors and varieties.

  8. Lowlands (festival) - Wikipedia

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    A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise (commonly called Lowlands or Lowlands Festival), is an annual three-day music and performing arts festival, held in the Netherlands.The festival is held 68 kilometres (42 mi) east of Amsterdam in Biddinghuizen, at Spijk en Bremerberg, which is adjacent to Walibi Holland.

  9. Canadian Tulip Festival - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] In 1946, Juliana sent another 20,500 bulbs requesting that a display be created for the hospital, and promised to send 10,000 more bulbs each year. By 1963 the festival featured more than 2 million tulips, rising to nearly 3 million by 1995.