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National Tulip Day in the centre of Amsterdam
January 20 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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It’s the third Saturday in January: National Tulip Day
Hooray, it is the third Saturday in January! What are we celebrating? The start of the tulip season!
If you are in Amsterdam on the third Saturday in January you are very lucky. Normally there are no blooming tulips to enjoy in January but on the third Saturday of January it’s National Tulip Day in Amsterdam! With this unique event the Dutch are celebrating the start of the tulip season. From that day the tulip flowers will be promoted at the flower shops.
Visitors are allowed to pick tulips for free in a specially designed tulip pick-up garden. There will be around 200.000 tulips in the free pick-up garden.
Photo’s with tulips in January
The pick-up garden is perfect to collect some beautiful tulips for you hotelroom but you also can take great pictures with blooming tulips.
Theme Picking Garden 2018
In 2018 the theme will be Romance. It’s the same theme as Flower Garden Keukenhof in 2018. Theme is a perfect fit for the beautiful Tulip flowers.
Tulip Day in figures
- In 2018 its the 7th year that National Tulip Day will be held
- In 2017 there where 17.000 visitors enjoying and picking the blooming tulips
- More than 100 nationalities did visit the pick-up garden in 2017
- 30 national and international tv and radio stations talked about Tulip Day in 2017
Tulips in January?
The tulips that you can pick-up at the tulip garden are grown indoors. In big greenhouses farmers are growing tulips from November / December.
Video of this great event in 2017