The Netherlands in May

At first glance, it  looks like a giant child armed with a box of  crayons has been set loose upon the landscape.  Yet far from being a childs sketchbook, this is, in fact, the northern Netherlands in the middle of tulip season. The Dutch landscape in May is a  kaleidoscope of colour as the tulips burst into life. The bulbs are  planted in late October and early November. More  than three billion tulips are grown each year and two-thirds of the vibrant blooms are exported, mostly to the U.S. and Germany.

 

Their dazzling colors  are thanks to the years in the 17th century when  tulip mania swept the
globe and the most  eye-catching specimens changed hands for a small  fortune. But like a
Rainbow, this colorful  landscape is a short-lived phenomenon. When the  flowers are gone,
the land will be  cultivated for a rather more mundane crop of  vegetables. The Netherlands
produce more than nine  million bulbs a  year.

註：照片右下角的大補丁太難看了，很影響觀賞。建議咱們村的專業章能不能小一點，只佔小小的一個角。