The historic Gardens arespring flower displays from late March to late May, and last year attracted almost 900,000 visitors. Keukenhof is now ranged among the international top ten tourist attractions. For the climactic event of the opening period, the annual Flower Parade, tobe held in 2013 on 20th April, last year's attendance exceeded fifty thousand. These arrived in over nine hundred coaches and thousands of cars, not to mention public service busses from Schiphol Airport and nearby Leiden. Keukenhof is very strongly identified with tulips, of which more than six million bulbs were planted in the gardens in autumn last year. The Gardens are not entirely about tulips though. It would be unlike the entrepreneurialopen for the annualDutch not to make the very most of trie opportunity presented by this tourist honeypot to showcase their massive and diverse production of flowers. In addition to other bulb flowers, especially hyacinths and narcissi, there are many others, some known primarily as cut flowers or pot plants. There will be this spring at different times alstroemeria, lilies, roses, freesias and carnations for visitors to enjoy. Each of these will be the focus of one of almost twenty indoor flower exhibitions. Some of these are for the full eight weeks period of opening, while others are for one week or less.
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