The Association of Botanical Artists of the Netherlands is celebrating its 20th anniversary. In honor of the jubilee, the members have created a botanical illustration of an aquatic plant. The 50 best entries can be admired at the Westlands Museum. These involve native and...
Did you visit the 75th edition of Keukenhof? The last day is May 12, 2024, and it would be a shame if you had to wait another year. It is expected that the number of 1,4 million visitors from 2023 will well...
Spring has begun and the tourist season is also open for visiting gardens. The most famous garden is Keukenhof. In 2023, Keukenhof is open from March 23 to May 14 from 8:00 AM to 19:30 PM, also...
The stamp sheet 'Typically Dutch – Flower Fields' features 38 colorfully stylized tulips (whole and/or fragmented). Each stamp contains three tulips. The stem and leaves continue onto the stamps below. The image continuation effect represents the vast flower fields. The iconic...
In 2023, the TOP 5 Dutch artists are featured in multiple exhibitions. The list of the TOP 5 Dutch artists is a personal list, because you could also name a TOP 10 list of the best artists of...
Dutch tulip growers are organizing the happiest flower festival of the year. National Tulip Day will be held in Amsterdam on January 21, 2023. A picking garden with approximately 200.000 tulips has been created on Museumplein. The tulip season is finally starting for florists. Until...
The periodic table of the elements is celebrating its 150th anniversary. A century and a half ago (1869), the chemist Dimitri Mendeleev, originally from Tobolsk (Siberia) and teaching in Saint Petersburg, published a classification of the elements. Since then, many stamps have been issued about...
Flowers, high-quality plastics, and natural gas are our most important export products according to Statistics Netherlands (CBS). With a share of 33%, the tulip has been the most exported flower bulb for years. In 2017, over two billion tulips were exported worldwide. But where does the...
By now, artist Marc Ferdinand Severin could well be called a 'royal purveyor' as the designer of the stamps dedicated to the Ghent Floraliën. This was already the 27th edition of this important event. On February 22, 1975, the series of three stamps appeared in a...
In this contribution, I focus on a genuine PostNL issue featuring images of a butterfly and a tulip (vending machine stamps, issue date January 30, 2017) and on a fake issue by an illegal initiator featuring an image of the ear...
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