Keukenhof
1857
Vernacular
landscape
Keukenhof is a thirty-two-hectare spring-flower exhibition garden on the Keukenhof estate in Lisse, on the Bollenstreek between Haarlem and Leiden, opened as a public spring park in 1950. The landscape base is the 1857 English-style…
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- 1857
Jan David Zocher the Younger and Louis Paul Zocher designed the English landscape-style garden around Kasteel Keukenhof, which is the landscape base of the present public park.
Jan David Zocher
- 1949-1950
Bulb growers and exporters conceived the spring-flowering bulb exhibition on the Zocher park, and Keukenhof opened to the public in 1950.
- 1950
A consortium of Dutch bulb growers and exporters launched the first public spring flower exhibition in 1950, using the existing Zocher landscape as its setting and establishing the annual show that continues today.
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