Tulip Farms Bloom in Color
From the air, tulip farms look like a giant kaleidoscope. Brilliant stripes of red, yellow, purple, pink, orange and green make up a glorious technicolor patchwork.
The Netherlands devotes more than 25,000 acres to tulips and produces more than three billion tulip flowers each year. Farmers plant the bulbs in late October and harvest them in May, selling the the cut flowers to florists and supermarkets. Two-thirds of the vibrant blooms are exported, mostly to the U.S. and Germany.
This photo shows an extraordinary 60 million tulips coming into flower. When the flowers and color are gone, the land is cultivated for vegetables.
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