Tulip growers fill an Amsterdam square with a colorful infusion of flowers to mark National Tulip Day in the Netherlands. The celebration marks the opening of the lucrative tulip season for the Dutch flower industry.
Fireworks are set off as scores of people wait pick free tulips on Dam Square in front of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020, on national tulip day which marks the opening of the 2020 tulip season. Tulip growers in the Netherlands beat back winter — if only for a day — with a riotous explosion of color Saturday as they turned an Amsterdam square into a multi-colored feast for cold-dulled senses to mark National Tulip Day.
Several thousand people converged on Dam Square in front of the Royal Palace to enjoy and pick the 200,000 free tulips, making gorgeous bunches for themselves from the rainbow of vibrant colors on offer.National Tulip Day marks the opening of the tulip season for the Netherlands’ flower industry. “I came with some of my friends and also my family just for this event, for the National Tulip Day, the start of the tulip season,” Fuschia Ramadhanti, a visitor from Indonesia, said.
Flowers are a flourishing business in the Netherlands, the world’s biggest tulip producer. The country annually grows between 1.7 and 2 billion tulips, which are exported to more than 100 countries worldwide. Horticultural products such as fresh flowers, bulbs and plants were the highest-value Dutch agricultural sector in
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