Tulips varieties garden Henk van Drie

Henk van Drie’s tulip species garden

Henk van Drie of Emmeloord is a tulip enthusiast at heart. For 35 years he has been collecting tulips in his species garden. He now has almost 2000 varieties. These are planted and uprooted by hand every year. Henk is helped by a group of enthusiastic volunteers.

In the species garden there are new but also very old unique varieties. A very old tulip, for example, is Lac van Rijn. This tulip was christened in 1620 and has therefore flowered more than 400 times. In the species garden you will also come across about 100 so-called primordial tulips or botanical tulips. So these are the uncultivated or improved tulips. These tulips can also be found in the wild in the surroundings of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan etc, the countries of origin.

Would you like to come and see this unique collection? During the Tulip Festival, the species garden is open to visitors. On nice days you can buy beautiful tulips here and also the oldtimer bus of Monibarista will be present with delicious fresh coffee and some goodies to go with it.

Guided tours are provided to groups by appointment. Anyone interested in this can contact Frans Ebbers: 06-46071393.

Address: Next to Espelerpad 16 in Espel
Entrance: Free gift