Polder Garden - Anna Paulowna

The Poldertuin (Polder Garden) is also called the small Keukenhof. Every year the Poldertuin attracts thousands of visitors to Anna Paulowna. In spring you can enjoy a colourful palette of tulips, daffodils and hyacinths. Volunteers plant about 250,000 flower bulbs every year, which are made available by local flower bulb growers.

All in all the many types of flower bulbs form a colourful collection of what the region has to offer: here in the Noordkop lies no less than five thousand hectare of flower bulb fields. That is over 7800 football fields! Almost half of that lies in Anna Paulowna, but also in Breezand, Wieringerwaard, the Wieringermeer and Nieuwe Niedorp millions of flower bulbs bloom every year.

The bulb cultivation finds her origin in 1911, when a Zuid-Holland bulb grower planted the first bulbs on the fertile clay soil. After the First World War followed a period of strong growth and the area was even declared the fastest growing flower bulb area of the Netherlands.

With the flowers also came the traditions, such as the Flower Days. Since 1953 residents make mosaics of coloured hyacinth flowers; each and every one real artworks that attract visitors from home and abroad for a week long.

And there is more: also in other places in Hollands Kroon the flower splendour is celebrated, such as the flower parade in Winkel, the Floralia in Nieuwe Niedorp and the Flora and Fishery Days in Den Oever.

Photo: ©Daniëlle van der Ploeg, Municipality Hollands Kroon