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***image1***The Garden Fair Kaiserslautern will have a new special attraction this year. It will turn 2007 into the “Year of the Tulip.” A total of one million tulips are scheduled to bloom.
“We are happy that people like our idea of having a tulip festival,” said Thomas Zinssmeister, manager of the garden fair.
More than 1,600 season tickets have been sold so far. “We believe that people in the area don’t want to miss this unique spectacle of one million blooming spring flowers,” Mr. Zinssmeister added.
Garden fair organizers visited Keukenhof in the Netherlands to get help from experts such as the landscape architect of the Keukenhof, Jan Guldemond.
Keukenhof’s tulip expert, Kees van Waveren, visited the garden fair recently and praised the good condition of the plants. “Since there was already some frost, which tulips need, visitors can look forward to blossom carpets in early spring,” Mr. van Waveren said. “If the weather stays warm, daffodils will bloom in March already.”
The garden fair area will be created in a special way: A flower ribbon made of 13 gigantic blossoms will go through Neumühlepark. One gigantic blossom will consist of 25,000 tulips and have a diameter of 22 meters. One gigantic leaf will consist of about 2,500 hyacinths.
The planted tulips will show different motifs such as the city crest and the garden fair logo. The tulip festival will be accompanied by several special events. There will be the christening of a new tulip April 21, Dutch artists will perform, and a Dutch week is scheduled offering Dutch food.
A tulip princess has been elected already. Katja Horbach will be at the tulip festival for about eight weeks.
“If the weather allows, we plan to open the area on weekends starting the middle of March,” said Mr. Zinssmeister.
The Kaiserslautern Garden Fair will officially open April 5 and run through Oct. 28.
For details and season tickets, call the garden fair at 0631-71007-00 or visit www.gartenschau-kl.de. (Information provided by Garden Fair Kaiserslautern)
