Flowers
Theo works weekdays, weekends and nights checking Dutch tulip fields for sick flowers. The boxy robot - named after a retired employee at the WAM Pennings farm near the Dutch North Sea coast - is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from the bulb fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime colour. On a windy spring morning, the robot trundles along rows of yellow and red 'goudstuk' tulips, checking each plant and, when necessary, killing diseased bulbs to prevent the spread of the tulip-breaking virus. The dead bulbs are removed from healthy ones in a sorting warehouse a...
Euronews (English)
If springtime flowers fill you with joy, there is one place in Europe which is an absolute must: Keukenhof. Close to the Dutch capital of Amsterdam, you’ll find vast gardens filled with a staggering seven million - mostly tulip - bulbs. The Lisse-based floral exhibition is set on 32 hectares (or 79 acres) of land and each bulb is painstakingly planted by one of Keukenhof’s 40 gardeners. 2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the glorious garden. Here’s everything you need to know about it - and how to make a floral visit a reality, when it officially opens on 21 March. A brief history of Keukenhof...
Euronews (English)
Lisse (Pays-Bas) (AFP) - Le jardin de Keukenhof, le plus grand jardin de tulipes du monde près d'Amsterdam, a ouvert ses portes jeudi pour son 75e anniversaire et attend des centaines de milliers de visiteurs venus admirer ses sept millions de bulbes en fleurs. Situé à Lisse (ouest des Pays-Bas), le parc de 32 hectares plantés de millions de tulipes de toutes les couleurs et d'autres fleurs est une attraction populaire du pays, avec quelque 1,4 million de visiteurs l'an dernier. "C'est la première fois que je viens et je suis tellement enthousiaste d'assister au 75e anniversaire", a déclaré à ...
AFP (Français)
As the heat of summer wanes, fall brings a fresh batch of flowers to gardens across Japan. Read on below for five of the most representative blooms of the island nation’s autumn days. Fall bouquets in Japan are bursting with bright and fiery color, heralding the changing of the leaves that sets the nation awash in reds and golds. Whether the true autumn chill comes earlier in the season, as for northern Japan, or later, as in the south, flowers that flourish in the fall will soon adorn gardens across the country from September to November. Here we introduce five beautiful blooms, symbolic of t...
Savvy Tokyo
There’s no place to beat the heat like the oasis of your own urban garden. Whether you’re new to the greenery game or an avid gardener, read on to brush up on Japan’s best seasonal flowers this summer! Summer in Japan begins with tsuyu, or the rainy season, which brings cool winds and downpours. It also harkens the arrival of related botanicals that thrive in damp weather. Since I first visited Japan during tsuyu, I have a particular nostalgic affinity for this time of year here, with its dark, glistening, green color palette punctuated by flowery pastels. High summer in Japan, on the other ha...
Savvy Tokyo
Learn the meanings behind popular flowers in Japan and how different colored blooms can send varying messages. Up your floral and Japanese cultural knowledge with this primer on hana kotoba (flower symbolism) and gift-giving! Red roses for love, the rose as June’s flower of the month…Although I have an avid interest in everything botanical, before becoming immersed in Japanese culture, I can’t say that I actively engaged with the meanings of flowers beyond the most popular ones above. But, in Japan, as well as sharing similar meanings as those found abroad, flowers have also been bestowed with...
Savvy Tokyo
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