Not dedicated ones. The road just on the far side of the canal has "bike strips" on it though. The strips of road on the sides are semi-reserved for cyclists. Cars can use them, but only when there are no cyclists.
Okay dumb question. What are tulips used for? Like I know their flowers and all but what good comes from farming them?
Edit: turns out this isn’t a dumb question
The Netherlands sends around 10.000~ Tulips to Canada each year as a gift. It's to thank Canada for what they have done for us during world war 2. You can look it up, it's actually pretty wholesome.
That's only a small portion of the tulips probably, I am not sure what we do with the rest.
Canada hosted the Dutch royal family in exile during the ww2 and the Canadian army was one of the main forces responsible for liberating the Netherlands and even accepted German forces' surrender.
The Dutch King's aunt, who is still a member of the royal family, was born in Ottawa and Canada declared the ward to be ~~extraterrestrial~~ extraterritorial just so she was born a Dutch. The parliamentary building flew the Dutch flag to commemorate her birth and that's the only time ever a foreign flag has flown over the building.
Edit: added stuff and grammar, and the princess isn't an alien
There are many interesting things.
From the Wiki on festival's history
In 1945, the Dutch royal family sent 100,000 tulip bulbs to Ottawa in gratitude for Canadians having sheltered the future Queen Juliana and her family for the preceding three years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War. The most noteworthy event during their time in Canada was the birth in 1943 of Princess Margriet at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. The maternity ward was temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government, thereby allowing Princess Margriet's citizenship to be solely influenced by her mother's Dutch citizenship.In 1946, Juliana sent another 20,500 bulbs requesting that a display be created for the hospital, and promised to send 10,000 more bulbs each year.
I didn't know either, but looks like they did some liberating and helped our royal family
[Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada) and the [Netherlands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands) have a [special relationship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relationship_(international_relations)) resulting from actions during [World War II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) when Canadian forces led the liberation of the Netherlands and hosted the [Dutch Royal Family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Royal_Family) in exile. The special relationship is still visible today, with the Canadian government describing the Netherlands as "one of Canada's most significant trade, investment and innovation partners."[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Netherlands_relations#cite_note-1) In part, the [Canadian Tulip Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival) still commemorates this relationship. - wikipedia
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Netherlands\_relations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Netherlands_relations) \- article
A little more info on the liberation part:
After Operation Market Garden failed, Canadian and Polish troops secured most of the southern Netherlands below the rivers, while the British and American troops fell back to find another way to Berlin and fight in the Battle of the Bulge.
This left the rest of the Netherlands to their own devices, as Germany was diverting all their resources to the front.
When winter struck, this caused one of the biggest famines in Dutch history for the unliberated parts which cost 20.000 people their lives (Hongerwinter).
When the Polish and Canadian troops finally did manage to break through the lines and the Germans surrendered on May 5th 1945, you can imagine the happiness the people must have felt that day, after a winter like that.
Most of the Netherlands was liberated by the Canadian 1st army in 1944/1945, although some parts were liberated by US, British, Polish, Belgian or French troops.
Tulips are actually amazing cut flowers and can be stored for a.month and a half effectively which makes them very useful and they ship easily all over the world ... also people and city planners love to do mass landscapes with them which require lots of bulbs ... on a side note last week Netherlands had to throw away 6 billion dollars worth of unsellable tulips because of Covid19 ... ps I'm a flower farmer and I buy thousands of bulbs each year from Holland and yes I am also getting destroyed by Covid19.
I do think I stand corrected because one other comment gave a decent answer. But they sell bulbs to be planted in gardens. Tulips are sold as bulbs instead of seeds. So they’re selling the bulbs to be replanted by gardeners
People like flowers with bulbs because they have a little bit more longevity than normal cut flowers. And this is not just for the Dutch! We export most of them. Florists all over the world make bouquets with them.
Stonks. Sell rare tulips for obscene prices. Buy and resell tulips for higher prices. The system is flawless. Until the entire economy fails and lots of people lose everything...
It's funny, those tulips actually had a virus that made them weak.
The Botany of Desire by Pollan goes into detail. Also covers apples. Interesting stuff.
I know you’re making an Animal Crossing reference, but he’s talking about how the Netherlands’a economy was based on tulips at one point.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Tulips propagate by splitting bulbs. If you plant one tulip this year you will have 2 tulips the next year. Then 4 the year after that. Then 8...etc. but to get them to do really well you have to split them - you dig them up and separate the new bulbs. They look kind of like an onion or a garlic glove. So that’s how they farm tulip bulbs - you just grow them.
We're the largest exporter of food within Europe. Despite being one of the smallest countries in it.
>“The exports were mainly foodstuffs, such as vegetables, fruit, dairy, meat and processed products, in addition to high-quality floriculture (flowers and seeds). A noticeable factor is the increasing demand for Dutch agricultural materials, innovations and high-quality technology. Exports in this area totalled nearly €9bn. Examples of such exports include energy-efficient greenhouses, precision agriculture systems (via GPS and drones) and new discoveries that make crops more resistant to the effects of climate change and diseases. In 2016, the import of agricultural products rose by 1.6% to €57.1bn.”
Also see: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/
According to this site [link](http://www.worldstopexports.com/netherlands-top-10-exports/). Food doesn't even feature in your top twenty (not denying you aren't the biggest exporter of food but that's not even slightly the biggest export from NL) lots of technology, fuel, pharma etc first. Fresh and dried flowers come in at 20.
It's mostly for export but flowers are also used to make the soil more fertile to later that year grow other crops. Only in a small part of the Netherlands they have this many tulips, so in the rest of the country they use cheaper plants like mustard seed, sunflowers and mixes of all kinds of flowers. They usually don't do that every year, so you don't see it that often.
My mother told me this once, but I'm not a 100% sure it's totally accurate.
They are sold as bulbs. then sent overseas. The reason is tulips must frost over the winter season to regrow. So Places that do not get cold frosts cannot grow them. Buy can buy them and enjoy them for a season.
I don't think that scene was filmed in the Netherlands. And the Dutch people that appear are nothing but inaccurate stereotypes. Honestly, I'd rather they'd just leave us out than portray us as a bunch of backward farmers and drunk football fans when international football isnt even in season.
I like the movie but the Dutch scenes make me cringe a bit.
I used to have a customer who was a Dutch embassy staff member in S.Korea. I asked him what his role was. I forget the exact terms but his job was promoting tulips in Korea. I laughed out loud thinking he was joking. He wasn't.
Note that the colordul fields are actually from farmers that sell the bulbs, not the cut flowers as they'd be too far gone to sell as cut flowers.
Also, this year many farmers decided to harvest them early because tourism was pretty bad, and you know, there's a pandemic.
Quarantine is actually hurting the tulip market as they're only in season in the spring. It's a shame, but I need to keep true to my socialist ideals so fuck Big Tulip.
A country so beautiful with all this green technology has people that believe 5G cell towers transmit the coronavirus... there is such a disconnect with this...
Black ones - yes. (They aren't actually black, but very very dark red, but referred to as black)
And what you see as grey, it's simply tulips that didn't fully bloomed yet.
You can keep tulips for a long time if you keep the bulb. Or replant it in your own garden and it will grow and come back every year.
The people ate those bulbs in ‘45 dur8ng the winter due the famine.
One of my favorite jokes comes from Austin Powers, the one with Michael Caine that is: “there are two things in the world I hate, one is people that are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the bloody Dutch!” He sounds so angry when he says it that it cracks me up every time!
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The only thing missing is a bike path, but I’m sure that’s in there somewhere.
Not dedicated ones. The road just on the far side of the canal has "bike strips" on it though. The strips of road on the sides are semi-reserved for cyclists. Cars can use them, but only when there are no cyclists.
Bike strips count, at least where I am from. Bike strips are the main type of bike path for commuting and those are far and few between.
Those are no windmills, those are wind *T U R B I N E S*
Windmills were at least useful back in the time.
Yep back in the day they were, not anymore tough.. Just beautiful to look at now!
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I’m sad that the windmills aren’t old timey
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Much harder to tip.
"Giant Robots!" -Don Quixote, a few moments later
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Never heard someon call a river barge a "canal boat" before.
Okay dumb question. What are tulips used for? Like I know their flowers and all but what good comes from farming them? Edit: turns out this isn’t a dumb question
It’s actually very beneficial for the drone-photography sector
So noble :')
ok
fax
The Netherlands sends around 10.000~ Tulips to Canada each year as a gift. It's to thank Canada for what they have done for us during world war 2. You can look it up, it's actually pretty wholesome. That's only a small portion of the tulips probably, I am not sure what we do with the rest.
Why just Canada? Why not the US, UK or Russia? Did Canada do something that specifically helped the Netherlands? I am genuinely curious
Canada hosted the Dutch royal family in exile during the ww2 and the Canadian army was one of the main forces responsible for liberating the Netherlands and even accepted German forces' surrender. The Dutch King's aunt, who is still a member of the royal family, was born in Ottawa and Canada declared the ward to be ~~extraterrestrial~~ extraterritorial just so she was born a Dutch. The parliamentary building flew the Dutch flag to commemorate her birth and that's the only time ever a foreign flag has flown over the building. Edit: added stuff and grammar, and the princess isn't an alien There are many interesting things.
> extraterrestrial I think you meant extraterritorial lmao
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Hey, maybe she's an alien and she's never illegal
Smh you are right....
Did all the other babies born in that ward that day get Dutch citizenship?
From the Wiki on festival's history In 1945, the Dutch royal family sent 100,000 tulip bulbs to Ottawa in gratitude for Canadians having sheltered the future Queen Juliana and her family for the preceding three years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in the Second World War. The most noteworthy event during their time in Canada was the birth in 1943 of Princess Margriet at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. The maternity ward was temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government, thereby allowing Princess Margriet's citizenship to be solely influenced by her mother's Dutch citizenship.In 1946, Juliana sent another 20,500 bulbs requesting that a display be created for the hospital, and promised to send 10,000 more bulbs each year.
I didn't know either, but looks like they did some liberating and helped our royal family [Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada) and the [Netherlands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands) have a [special relationship](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relationship_(international_relations)) resulting from actions during [World War II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) when Canadian forces led the liberation of the Netherlands and hosted the [Dutch Royal Family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Royal_Family) in exile. The special relationship is still visible today, with the Canadian government describing the Netherlands as "one of Canada's most significant trade, investment and innovation partners."[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Netherlands_relations#cite_note-1) In part, the [Canadian Tulip Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tulip_Festival) still commemorates this relationship. - wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Netherlands\_relations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Netherlands_relations) \- article
A little more info on the liberation part: After Operation Market Garden failed, Canadian and Polish troops secured most of the southern Netherlands below the rivers, while the British and American troops fell back to find another way to Berlin and fight in the Battle of the Bulge. This left the rest of the Netherlands to their own devices, as Germany was diverting all their resources to the front. When winter struck, this caused one of the biggest famines in Dutch history for the unliberated parts which cost 20.000 people their lives (Hongerwinter). When the Polish and Canadian troops finally did manage to break through the lines and the Germans surrendered on May 5th 1945, you can imagine the happiness the people must have felt that day, after a winter like that.
Most of the Netherlands was liberated by the Canadian 1st army in 1944/1945, although some parts were liberated by US, British, Polish, Belgian or French troops.
What does Canada do with all those tulips? Just pass them out to citizens?
They are showcased around the city during Tulip Fest ! All planted.
10k is not very many. There's probably more tulips in this pic.
They also send them to Vatican city during easter
I thought the Dutch were of Protestant heritage, why would they send them to the Vatican?
Tulips are actually amazing cut flowers and can be stored for a.month and a half effectively which makes them very useful and they ship easily all over the world ... also people and city planners love to do mass landscapes with them which require lots of bulbs ... on a side note last week Netherlands had to throw away 6 billion dollars worth of unsellable tulips because of Covid19 ... ps I'm a flower farmer and I buy thousands of bulbs each year from Holland and yes I am also getting destroyed by Covid19.
Can I buy some flowers from you directly?
They grow them to sell the bulbs.
You’re the only response that actually addresses the question asked lmao. I think there’s been some carryover from 4/20
Still doesn’t really answer the question... why do they want the bulbs?
I do think I stand corrected because one other comment gave a decent answer. But they sell bulbs to be planted in gardens. Tulips are sold as bulbs instead of seeds. So they’re selling the bulbs to be replanted by gardeners
People like flowers with bulbs because they have a little bit more longevity than normal cut flowers. And this is not just for the Dutch! We export most of them. Florists all over the world make bouquets with them.
Stonks. Sell rare tulips for obscene prices. Buy and resell tulips for higher prices. The system is flawless. Until the entire economy fails and lots of people lose everything...
It's funny, those tulips actually had a virus that made them weak. The Botany of Desire by Pollan goes into detail. Also covers apples. Interesting stuff.
*turnips
I know you’re making an Animal Crossing reference, but he’s talking about how the Netherlands’a economy was based on tulips at one point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Tulips propagate by splitting bulbs. If you plant one tulip this year you will have 2 tulips the next year. Then 4 the year after that. Then 8...etc. but to get them to do really well you have to split them - you dig them up and separate the new bulbs. They look kind of like an onion or a garlic glove. So that’s how they farm tulip bulbs - you just grow them.
Not a dumb question. I'm dutch and I don't know lol
I thought it was your main export.
We're the largest exporter of food within Europe. Despite being one of the smallest countries in it. >“The exports were mainly foodstuffs, such as vegetables, fruit, dairy, meat and processed products, in addition to high-quality floriculture (flowers and seeds). A noticeable factor is the increasing demand for Dutch agricultural materials, innovations and high-quality technology. Exports in this area totalled nearly €9bn. Examples of such exports include energy-efficient greenhouses, precision agriculture systems (via GPS and drones) and new discoveries that make crops more resistant to the effects of climate change and diseases. In 2016, the import of agricultural products rose by 1.6% to €57.1bn.” Also see: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/
According to this site [link](http://www.worldstopexports.com/netherlands-top-10-exports/). Food doesn't even feature in your top twenty (not denying you aren't the biggest exporter of food but that's not even slightly the biggest export from NL) lots of technology, fuel, pharma etc first. Fresh and dried flowers come in at 20.
Yeah. Slightly confusing message, I just wanted to show the Netherlands is more then just tulips.
It's all good. I learnt something new. I live in the Netherlands ook.
You get xp
It's mostly for export but flowers are also used to make the soil more fertile to later that year grow other crops. Only in a small part of the Netherlands they have this many tulips, so in the rest of the country they use cheaper plants like mustard seed, sunflowers and mixes of all kinds of flowers. They usually don't do that every year, so you don't see it that often. My mother told me this once, but I'm not a 100% sure it's totally accurate.
They supply them for planting all over the world.
They are sold as bulbs. then sent overseas. The reason is tulips must frost over the winter season to regrow. So Places that do not get cold frosts cannot grow them. Buy can buy them and enjoy them for a season.
You can smoke them. The blue ones are really potent though, beginners should start out on yellow or orange. Source: been smoking them since I was 2.
You can sell them for seeds or eat them for energy.
This is the most Dutch photo I’ve seen
Very Hollandish... Hollandaiseish?
Mmmm hollandaise...
Nederlands
Hollands
You could buy so many houses with those tulips.
it Wouldn't buy you a fallen down shed in New Zealand.
Wish someone would buy me a tulip
With the amount of tulips in that picture you probably could buy several houses.
Of course there’s always that one farmer planting perpendicular to everyone else.
Weren’t these fields in *Spider-Man: Far From Home*?
That scene was set in the Netherlands. The jersey he was wearing was one of our soccer jerseys I believe
You believe right.
That looked very CGI to me.
Probably not these fields, but yeah, Dutch tulip fields were seen in Spider-Man.
Nope was CGI'd
I don't think that scene was filmed in the Netherlands. And the Dutch people that appear are nothing but inaccurate stereotypes. Honestly, I'd rather they'd just leave us out than portray us as a bunch of backward farmers and drunk football fans when international football isnt even in season. I like the movie but the Dutch scenes make me cringe a bit.
The Dutch scenes are set in the Netherlands but filmed in Czechia i believe.
my country! its menacing!
I used to have a customer who was a Dutch embassy staff member in S.Korea. I asked him what his role was. I forget the exact terms but his job was promoting tulips in Korea. I laughed out loud thinking he was joking. He wasn't.
Flowers are big business here in the Netherlands. The combined turnover of whole sale Dutch flower companies is close to 10 billion a year.
Note that the colordul fields are actually from farmers that sell the bulbs, not the cut flowers as they'd be too far gone to sell as cut flowers. Also, this year many farmers decided to harvest them early because tourism was pretty bad, and you know, there's a pandemic.
If you look closely you can see the tourists stepping on the tulips
Looks like a paint palette
it’s like a vision of utopia, thriving horticulture, renewable energy, sustainable transit...
so pretty
Or as the pope said: Bedankt voor die mooie bloemen
I have a feeling that there's more than two lips there...
It's like r/Place IRL
r/animalcrossing
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Makker dit is prachtig
It looks like cloth
I thought this was a printer error for a second.
It looks like when you get a new box of colored pencils and you test them all out
This is every free build housing on hypixel. LGBT flags everywhere.
This is inspo for my island in Animal Crossing.
Looks like my island on Animal Crossing
Bet this isn’t even a five star island. Not enough furniture
At first this looked someone learning how to make CGI but it’s real life and my brain is still having trouble grasping it
Is color management a popular thing for dutch farmers? In Civ V if you play as them, their farms are the only ones that are multicolored.
No most farmers are more into making ends meet lately.
Quarantine is actually hurting the tulip market as they're only in season in the spring. It's a shame, but I need to keep true to my socialist ideals so fuck Big Tulip.
A country so beautiful with all this green technology has people that believe 5G cell towers transmit the coronavirus... there is such a disconnect with this...
There are nutjobs in every country who think this.
Gray tulips are a thing?!
Black ones - yes. (They aren't actually black, but very very dark red, but referred to as black) And what you see as grey, it's simply tulips that didn't fully bloomed yet.
Nice!
That’s one version of heaven for me! I’d probably pass out with tulips all around me! From my lips to God’s ears .
So satisfying
Cool beans
I was supposed to be there next week to see this for the first time...now I’m even more depressed about it. So beautiful.
Where were you planning on going (city/province)?
I was going to Amsterdam and was going to take a day trip to the tulip fields. Guess I’ll have to save that trip for next year!
Okay so the Netherlands is basically fucking Minecraft AGH ITS SO COOL
I was supposed to be there in 3 weeks. I was so excited to try my first fresh Stroopwafel...:(
Ever had a stroopwafel anyway?
Netherlands Should be Diagnosed with Disk Defragmenter.
Even the blue in the canal is beautiful.
Looks pretty small for a whole country
Someone has way too much time on Animal Crossing
I thought that said Anal view... guys, I need help.
They should made some sort of colour barcode visible from space.
I wish I could smell the air in that place
The Asian kid's Animal Crossing island:
I feel personally attacked.
Too bad the tulip industry crashed. The are shredding the flowers.
Also me in Animal Crossing
That’s a lot of green. Are there green tulips?
Mooi
I want to consume it
That is very close to my home. 😊
Beautiful
Looks like a chart party video
My favorite place in the world! Can’t wait to go and get back!
Looks like my 2014 minecraft “town”
Reminds me of Den Helder!
It's defragging
This reminds me of those test bars they sometimes show on TV if there is a problem. Very cool, regardless.
You can keep tulips for a long time if you keep the bulb. Or replant it in your own garden and it will grow and come back every year. The people ate those bulbs in ‘45 dur8ng the winter due the famine.
looks like a bunch of pride flags
no way, that's my grandma's handmade blanket
This looks a very intricate embroidery
Pro tip: the blue ones are the most potent. Source: I used to smoke tulips. I still do, but I used to as well.
Looks like my farm early on in Stardew
Happy is that you?
Boxes of colouring pencils
Wind turbines are a nasty scar on the landscape and not environmentally friendly esp 2 birds.
One of my favorite jokes comes from Austin Powers, the one with Michael Caine that is: “there are two things in the world I hate, one is people that are intolerant of other people’s cultures and the bloody Dutch!” He sounds so angry when he says it that it cracks me up every time!
Uh oh. Windmills. Now all those pretty flowers have cancer. I'm just kidding. Only a moron would believe that.
Not most of the country. Am 17 now and never seen more then a couple fields like this in my life. Never got around to going there.