Another huge striped tulip field – I’d walked along my side of the fence to the far end, looking at the colours and taking photos with the aim of reaching this bright colour stripe that I could see at the end. Unbelievable colour but it’s for real, and alongside were some very pretty pink-and-white tulips. To my amazement I spotted two people inspecting the crop, perfectly positioned for my photos! Honestly, I couldn’t have asked for more 🙂
Correction re my post “Of All Stripes“: those tulips were by another road a short drive away. It’s these ones shown below that were opposite the field of pink tulips.
~Mon 17 Oct. Edendale, Southland, New Zealand
Just wow!
Text and photos by Liz; Exploring Colour (2022)
Exploring Colour 
It looks like Netherlands.
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Wow! Just Wow!😉📷
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Thanks Donna, it surely was a wow! experience 🙂
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Makes me want to plant some tulip bulbs!
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What a fun part of those folks’ job, standing in that massive field of blooms.
Do you know if they let the flowers die back naturally before harvesting the bulbs?
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No the tulip flowers aren’t left to die back naturally. They get mown off! Here’s a 2019 twitter link you can click on to see how it’s done. As it happens, Nigel’s visiting this property tomorrow to see the tulips. Here’s the link (it may seem familiar as it’s one I shared with you and Ted in 2019 when we were talking tulips)… https://twitter.com/blairdrysdale77/status/1189668645376425985
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Oh, that is painful to watch!!! How fun for Nigel 🌷 😁 🌷
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Ugg, hit enter before I was done typing….Now that I see the video I remember knowing this about beheading the tulips.
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I didn’t know there were big tulip farms by you. I don’t think I have ever seen one, and have been to the Netherlands. Beautiful!
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The tulips’ bright colours in the countryside are very welcome after winter! If we’d gone on a longer drive we would have found more. They’re scattered randomly among the usual pastoral fields.
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Wonderful colors and great images.
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Thank you very much! The colours were a treat.
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Absolutely stunning!
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Thanks Cindy! It’s brilliant to see whole fields of them 🙂
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I’m glad I was still awake when the post appeared. The sheer tulip numbers are mind-boggling and the two humans really help put things in perspective and emphasize how expansive these fields are.
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It’s cool you were still awake to see them. Lots of tulips alright, and these aren’t the only fields we saw 🙂 Hope you have a good nights rest!
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Thank you, Liz. I slept well and am ready for another day. 🙂
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Gorgeous! I remember seeing the tulip fields with my late Aunty about three years ago now. My great grandmother was born in Morton Mains near to Seaward Downs.
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It was a great treat to see them! All the photos I’ve shown so far, including these, were taken at an intersection near the “Menzies Ferry” hall.
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Correction: the tulip photos in ‘Of All Stripes’ were alongside a different road – a road with the Haakman bulb packhouse – still had the Menzies Ferry hall at the end of the road though.
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Must remember to go take a look next year 🙂
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