If you've seen the movie Annian, you wouldn't have forgotten the song with tulip background. The heroine running in tulip field taken from top angle... amazing shot. For those poor people, who don't have time to follow kollywood news closely, that scene was taken in keukenhof, holland.
The tulip garden in keukenhof is open for visitors for just two months every year, march end to may end. Last year I went there. It was a wonderful sight. The garden contains tulips in all possible colors, very neatly showcased. Next to the garden, in a very large field, different colored tulips were planted in long stripes. That is the exact shooting spot for the above mentioned song. We've clicked hundreds of fotos & spent a long time in that place.
With the same expectation, we went for that garden again last saturday. But it was very disappointing. Many plants had only buds... many more not even that. We were discussing why the organizers allow visitors, if the garden is not ready yet. We realized the reason, when we came to know about the procedure followed to bring up those flowers. The process starts as early as november (actually the seed preperation starts even earlier). The life time of tulips is just about three weeks. To have flowers for longer period, different kinds of seeds are planted in three layers at certain depths. This causes the plants to grow & blossom one after another. Ultimately tulips everywhere for two months.
We came to know an interesting fact too. In 17th century, a big house costed around 4,500 euros, while one tulip bulb costed 13,500 euros! Quite amazing, isn't it?
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
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