Every year in April/May, the landscape in Flevoland colours brightly thanks to the colourful tulip fields. Of course, it goes without saying that you are not allowed to walk through the fields to pick tulips. But there are some places where you do get to pick your own tulips. Namely in tulip picking gardens. There are several tulip-picking gardens in Flevoland.
Hanneke's Pluktuin is Hanneke Monsma's picking garden in the outskirts of Biddinghuizen. Here, she grows different flowers in different seasons. In spring, these are, of course, tulips. Once the tulip picking garden opens sometime in April, you will have the opportunity to pick your own beautiful bouquet from 250 different varieties of tulips. Old or young, everyone is welcome. With a beautiful view of the picking garden, you can also enjoy coffee or tea and homemade cake in The Greenhouse. Keep an eye on her website for the latest news on opening days and times!
Address: Ellerweg 18, Biddinghuizen
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At the Tulip Picking Garden Marknesse, you will find more than 50 different varieties of tulips on more than 5,000 square metres. White, yellow, red, black, purple, pink, cream, orange, double, parrot, fringed. Common but above all very special varieties. The picking garden opens as soon as the first tulip blooms, which this year is expected on 11 April. For a fixed price, you can pick a bucket full of beautiful tulips here. You can also just look and not pick. Then you only pay a small entrance fee to the tulip garden. On the terrace of the Boerenbol you can enjoy a snack and a drink during the Tulip Festival. Check on their website whether the picking garden is (still) open before you leave for Marknesse.
Address: Steenwijkerweg 26, Marknesse
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The Tulip Experience Field in Creil has been a regular part of the Tulip Festival Noordoostpolder for many years. It is a great location to stretch your legs, have a cup of coffee and take photos in the middle of the tulips. Here you can walk among the hundreds of different varieties of tulips in the show garden and take the most beautiful photos and selfies among the tulips to your heart's content. Check on their website whether the Tulip Experience Field is (still) open before you leave for Creil.
Address: Creilerpad 14, Creil
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For 35 years, tulip enthusiast Henk van Drie has been collecting tulips in his tulip variety garden in Espel in the Northeast Polder. He now has 1850 varieties, including some 100 so-called primordial or botanical tulips. These are uncultivated or improved tulips, which you can simply encounter in the wild in a country like Turkey. Picking tulips is definitely not the intention in this garden; enjoying and photographing them is. And would you like to know more about tulips and the tulip garden? Then read the information board at the entrance to the garden or ask the guides present during the Tulip Festival Noordoostpolder.
Address: Onderduikerspad 11, Espel
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