JordanandMorganHatch: Keukenhof, The Netherlands

If you love flowers, color, natures beautiful creations and sweet-smelling air, the Keukenhof Gardens is the place for you to visit. It's gorgeous, so gorgeous in fact, that I couldn't snap a bad photograph! The Keukenhof gardens are open from late March to Mid-May and totally worth a visit. If you want to make sure the flowers are in bloom, you can check the weekly bloom report here.

There are over 70 acres of parkland filled with more than SEVEN MILLION bulbs-tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, narcissi, gladioli the list goes on and on...

The park has a large team of gardeners (roughly around 30) who start planting in mid-September and since all of the bulbs are planted by hand it is a three month project. New grass is put in every year to make a nice green backdrop, and at the end of May all of the bulbs are dug up and destroyed! Oiy Vey! Then cycle begins again...

There is nothing like the scent of fresh crisp flowers!

I love all the different designs they do...

Every year Keukenhof has a theme for their designs. This year was "The Golden Age" the era when Holland became rich through worldwide trade. There were over 100,000 bulbs used to create the centerpiece of the exhibit.

There are over 100 different companies that show off their varieties of flowers at Keukenhof.

I learned from my friend Paige that the gardeners use "lasagna" layered planting: bulbs are planted in several layers- the late flowering flowers on the bottom, the April flowering bulbs in the middle, and the early-flowering bulbs on top. Yay for a variety!

There were several greenhouse pavilions inside that were packed with flowers! In the Orchid House there were orchid arrangements, potted orchid plants and hanging orchid shrubs.