Image: Tulips Landscape

↓ Image: Tulips Landscape

Peter Dejong is a Dutch photojournalist famous for covering eastern conflicts but he’s also very capable of capturing beautiful moments like last year in the middle of the tulip season.

With more than 10,000 hectares devoted to the cultivation of these delicate flowers, the Dutch landscape in May is a kaleidoscope of giddy colours as the tulips burst into life.

The bulbs are planted now (late October – early November), and will be picked and sold as bunches of cut flowers in florists and supermarkets 6 months from now. More than three billion tulips are grown each year and two-thirds of the vibrant blooms are exported, mostly to the U.S. and Germany.

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