Hortus Bulborum
The Hortus Bulborum in Limmen is the only garden in the world with an enormous collection of historic spring bulbs. More than 4500 different varieties of tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses and Fritillarias show their beautiful colors in the spring.
The unique thing about this garden is that there are hundreds of types of flower bulbs that date from well before 1990, which are hardly or not commercially grown anymore. The oldest varieties date from the sixteenth century, such as the Fritillaria Persica from 1577. Also legendary tulips such as "Duc van Tol Red and Yellow" from 1595, the tulip "Zomerschoon" from 1620 - very popular during the tulip mania - and the whimsical parakeet tulip " Perfecta” from 1750 can still be admired.
The Hortus Bulborum, the foundations of which were laid in 1924 by the Limmer schoolmaster Pieter Boschman, provides an interesting overview of the development of these immensely popular spring flowers over the centuries.