🌷 There is just one week to go until all the fun of The Tesselaar Tulip Festival begins. 🌷We have an exciting program of events that runs across five weekends. Our Turkish Weekend celebrates the origin of the tulip. Our Dutch Weekend transforms the farm into a mini Holland. Our Food, Wine and Jazz Weekend is a fusion of groove, gastronomy and grapes. Our Rock the Fields Weekend is a rock'n good time. Then our Irish Weekend is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Between we have Children's

During springtime, fields all over the Netherlands bloom with millions of tulips! 🌷🌷🌷 Tulips are native to central Asia, but didn’t gain popularity until reaching the Netherlands. There, during a period of time in the 1600s known as Tulip Mania, they became the world’s most expensive flower. They were said to have cost 10 times more than a worker’s average salary in the Netherlands! Now, the country’s most famous tulip landscape is Keukenhof garden. More than 7 million flowers are planted the

tiny tim performed “Tip Toe Thru’ The Tulips With Me” in 1968, making it his signature song. In 1996, while performing the same song, he suffered a heart attack and passed away at the age of 64. | History In Pictures