Keukenhof: The Garden of Europe

The Dune and Bulb area of Holland is globe famous for Keukenhof which is situated between Amsterdam and the Dutch capital The Hague. Keukenhof (The Garden of Europe) is the globe biggest flower garden with an annual development of seven million flower bulbs on an region of 32 hectares.

Keukenhof, The Garden of Europe – Image from wonders-of-nature.net

The estate on which Keukenhof is a hunting region from the 15th century.  This location was popular for the collection of Herbs for the kitchen (keuken) for Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut‘s castle. So the name Keukenhof is also derived from it. The garden was produced on this historic region of Lisse in 1949 by the then-mayor of Lisse. The principal goal was to promote the special Dutch flower sector and to invite the floral cultivators from all more than Netherlands and Europe to come up and show their hybrids. So eventually the small town of Holland, Lisse also became identified to the planet for Keukenhof. Keukenhof is open for the public every single year in the last week of March to mid-May. The best time to go to is regarded as in April even so it also depends on the suitable weather conditions.

Keukenhof Tulip Gardens, Image from t-gardenblog.blogspot.com

In the blooming season Keukenhof is filled with hundreds of thousands of blooming tulips, hyacinths, daffodils and other spring bulbs. For entire nine weeks Keukenhof becomes the center of the interest for hundreds of  growers, and breeders who exhibit  their best foot forward to the a huge numbers of guests and vacationers. In this annual floral exhibition of Keukenhof all these tremendous and awesome verities of tulips and other flowers are shown in a variety of pavilions in a very artistic manner. The atmosphere of Keukenhof is so inspirational and enriched with nature that it amuses the guests of each age. This enormous floral garden consists of 15 kilometers of footpaths.

Tulip Flowers of Keukenhof, Image from koningshof.co.uk

The renowned castle of Keukenhof is also adjacent to this park. Though Keukenhof is opened each year on its certain schedule but the grounds of Castle Keukenhof are opened each and every time which are usually utilised for conducting cultural festivals and musical events.

Castle of Keukenhof

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Arizona Cactus Garden of California

Arizona Cactus Garden of California or the Stanford Cactus Garden is a fantastic botanical garden especially identified for its unique collection of cactus and succulents. The garden is comprised of an location of 30000 sq. ft and is situated inside the campus of Stanford University Arboretum in Stanford, California.

The species grown in Arizona Cactus Garden  are cold-hardy and are grown with no supplemental water. This is, no doubt, an wonderful garden of water-saving landscape plants which is open for common public.

Arizona Cactus Garden of California . Photo by Davidcmc58 for Google Earth

In 1880 and 1883  Jane and Leland Stanford  planned to style this garden following an concept of a landscape architect Rudolph Ulrich. The Arizona Cactus garden was looked after  regularly until the 1920s but following its upkeep was lapsed. At last in 1997 some botanic lovers began it voluntary restoration and it is continued up till now. Due to lack of rehabilitation work  for decades , the Arizona Cactus Garden lost several rare species of cactus and succulents , nonetheless some of them are remaining nevertheless in their original form. They are only 15 % of all the plantation and are current in their real places.  Presently Arizona Cactus garden of California contains virtually 500 sorts of cacti and succulents in 58 beds,  and have two main divisions the Eastern Hemisphere  and the Western Hemisphere. First  section consists  aloes, jade plants and species of Eurasian and African succulents. In the other section the standard cacti species of American continent are grown.

A tour of Arizona Cactus garden definitely elaborates its evolution over the years, specifically its fairly recent restoration work right after being properly abandoned throughout second Globe War. The stunning varieties of cacti plants in the Arizona Cactus Garden of California specially attracts the guests in their flower blooming season and their flowers are covered in self-manufactured white powder to defend them from the sun.

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