Hi Garden Friends! I recently had the opportunity to travel to the Netherlands. I stayed in Amsterdam for 4 days and got to fit in some gardening related things! I enjoyed checking out the Amsterdam bulb and flower market, the public garden at Rijksmuseum, the windmills at Zaanse Schans. I hope to be able to visit Zaanse Schans again someday when their beautiful tulip fields are in bloom. The Anne Frank House was also a very emotional experience and a must see in my opinion. Have you ever been to Amsterdam? Let me know in the comments. Thanks for watching - Steph (Gardening in Massachusetts zone 6b). #gardening My Amazon Store Where You Can Find Many of My Favorite Garden Items: 👉amzn.to/49F9RTU
Thank you so much for sharing your time in The Netherlands. Although we live in Australia, our favourite country is The Netherlands so we absolutely loved seeing it through your eyes. It was so lovely of George to hold down the fort at home for you. Looking forward to your next video as usual. ❤ Love Meg & the pups ❤
How beautiful! I would love to visit Amsterdam and Bruges. It looks like an easy place to visit. No language barriers. Thank you for sharing and I'm so glad you had a wonderful trip.
Steph it looked like a fun trip. And should you ever want to see Holland domestically, and partake of authentic Dutch food come on over to Holland Michigan, the land of tulip festival in May in conjunction with the Holland Garden Club flower show.. which actually is free. I don't know if you've ever been here but your whole city tour of Amsterdam looked just like the city of Holland. And I live right near two lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Macatawa which forms a triangle. This is zone 6B. I don't know what zone Amsterdam is but it looks like they grow a lot of the same things we have here in the US. And if you're ever here in October you can go to Veldheers... They carry hundreds of tulips and allium and daffodils and whatever else comes in the size of a bulb for planting in your zone.
How beautiful Steph! Thank you so much for showing us these beautiful places. It's like I traveled but I'm in my living room sipping my coffee on this rainy morning ❤
Oh wow, thank you for taking us along on your trip, very interesting about the windmills, I didn't know about them pumping the water out, looks like you had a great trip.
Thank you so kindly for sharing this beautiful trip with us. I felt like I was there. I hope to make it to the Amsterdam area one day. George: Steph needs that glass greenhouse!!!❤
I was there in 2023. Great experience. Went to see the windmills, flower market. We never knew we had to book a reservation to visit the museums, so didn't see them. We took the train to Belgium. We also too home lots of cheese
Really enjoy your sharing of all the places you visited and things that you are your friends did while visiting Amsterdam and France! Very nice to see.
Thank you for posting such beautiful pictures of your trip. I agree about Toulouse, France. It’s a very interesting city with wonderful food and lovely people. I’ve traveled there with the company I use to work for. Amsterdam looks like a wonderful city to visit. I would be in the position about figure what I could take home with me. Thanks again for the beautiful tour.
I went to Amsterdam when i was young. I was there during winter. It was beautiful, but, as an obsessive gardener, I would love to visit again in summer. And, then, Paris again in Fall. I love plants and I’m an artist. So, I hope I get back there. This brought back a lot of wonderful memories with better color! Thanks 29:13
Can't Thank you enough for showing us around Amsterdam as a gardener. Loved all the things you showed us around. i am sure you had a great time. Green everywhere and very colorful. I love going on a carousel.
How fun ! I live about 15 mins from where you were. Just a tip you will need documents to take bulbs home to the US. Sometimes you can buy them on the airport and the paperwork there will be sorted for you. I hope that helps
When I did re-enactments I would wear wooden shoes all day. I had heavy socks to cushion my feet but I found them comfortable. I got mine in Holland, Michigan in the 80s and still use them occasionally. What a lovely trip for you.
What a great trip!! While in England this year I saw Acanthus which they referred to as Bear's Breeches! I had never seen it before. It sure makes a statement. Thanks for sharing! 💐
❤ this! Ams one of my favorite cities I used to travel there all the time late 80s and 90s and I would just order my tulip bulbs while I was there and like clockwork they would be shipped to my house and they continue to come back like for about five years so I thought that was wonderful 🌷🌷
I just found your channel today and just watched George showing what he needed to water! I’m excited to have found you, I am also from Mass and look forward to watching all your videos!
Steph thank you for taking us along this amazing trip!! It was beautiful on video and now I must see this with my own eyes! What souvenirs did you bring home?
Oh Steph, would you keep on traveling and showing us gardens from all the beautiful small towns you visit? It is a tonic for those of us stuck home with 110 degree sweltering heat, who can't be outside in our more gardens for much of the day! Wonderful filming, and it all looks heavenly. 🌷🌿🌺🌻🌱
Wow Steph! What a wonderful trip! Such gorgeous flowers in so many spaces. I've read that the wooden shoes are worn because so much of the Netherlands is soggy ground. Wooden shoes don't get ruined like leather shoes would. That trip looks like it was so much fun!
They ship the bulbs when it’s time to plant ,friends have sent them to me when they went over .You were Blessed to go ,I hope to one day soon .Thanks for sharing your trip 🍃🌿
What a great trip! A place on my travel bucket list! So what did you end up bringing home with you Steph? Any dahlia tubers? Thanks for sharing! Loved it! 😊♥️
Hi Stacey, it was a great trip. Thank you!! To bring anything home would have required a certificate for customs. And since I was already at max capacity in my luggage, I didn't want the extra trouble. I went with my favorite line that keeps me from over consumption: "admire, but don't acquire". While this line doesn't help me much in the garden, it helps me very much in other aspects of my life. I very much enjoyed perusing the varieties and seeing what was available and made notes of things I would like to order to try this Fall, mostly alliums etc. Thank you so much for watching 💚
Thank you for showing this! I’m going to Amsterdam next summer, and I loved your mix of gardens and other sightseeing. You’ve given me plenty of ideas.
Steph, I had goosebumps when you showed the flower market in Amsterdam!!! First of all I was so fortunate to go to Europe in 1993 and to this day when anyone asks my favorite place it is hands down Netherlands/Amsterdam. I love that country! I cannot wait to see all the treasures you bring back with you!!! Oh how wonderful beautiful thank you thank you for this video!! This definitely brought me joy today!!
I totally get that, and I would feel much the same if I had to make a decision to buy something. Thankfully my packed luggage made it so that I didn't have to decide 😅 but I thoroughly enjoyed checking everything out.
Erin, what a beautiful trip I have visited Amsterdam and Toulouse and found both cities wonderful. I loved following along with you the gardens of all sizes were amazing. There were several places you showed that I have not gone yet so I took notes. I hope to return during the tulip season.
Absolutely stunning video of all the wonderful flowers 💐 I absolutely adore daffodils, I love to collect the beautiful doubles every year to my collection 🥰🥰
Thank you for sharing your travels with us! I am glad you could make it!❤ It’s good to see the prices of bulbs just to feel better that we are not idiots here paying so much for those bulbs😂. Also passion flower is a native plant in Georgia, almost aggressive.
Years ago, when I was spending a year between college and graduate school in England I met a young Dutchman who took me to see the bulb fields in bloom. It was truly a memorable experience. Somewhere there is a snapshot of me jumping onto an enormous pile of tulips that had been deadheaded from the fields. I am glad you enjoyed your trip and hope you get to go back one day to see the tulips in bloom, including Keukenhof.
Enjoyed watching your Amsterdam trip amongst the flowers! I visited last year and as a NE Yankee went gaga in the shops over the vast array of garden bulbs I planned to bring back home on the plane to plant in Western Mass - until a very nice salesman pulled me aside to tell me that I would not be permitted to bring the bulbs home to the US - Sadly US Customs will intercept the bulbs and not allow you to bring them home:-(
My granddaughter danced in the Dutch parade in Holland Michigan for several years. They HAD to be in authentic Dutch dress and part of the official Dutch dress included wooden shoes. You NEEDED to buy them several sizes larger than you normally wear because they are so uncomfortable that most people had to wear multiple layers of socks when wearing them. About nine pair to be comfortable enough to dance through the parade. 🌺💚🙃
The trip we planned and booked ourselves. We did use online searches to book tours of the canal, and of the Zaanse Schans. Also, the Anne Frank House Museum is booked far in advance as its a very popular attraction. We bought those tickets online about 6 weeks before our trip.
Hi Garden Friends! I recently had the opportunity to travel to the Netherlands. I stayed in Amsterdam for 4 days and got to fit in some gardening related things! I enjoyed checking out the Amsterdam bulb and flower market, the public garden at Rijksmuseum, the windmills at Zaanse Schans. I hope to be able to visit Zaanse Schans again someday when their beautiful tulip fields are in bloom. The Anne Frank House was also a very emotional experience and a must see in my opinion. Have you ever been to Amsterdam? Let me know in the comments. Thanks for watching - Steph (Gardening in Massachusetts zone 6b). #gardening
My Amazon Store Where You Can Find Many of My Favorite Garden Items:
👉amzn.to/49F9RTU
Thank you so much for sharing your time in The Netherlands.
Although we live in Australia, our favourite country is The Netherlands so we absolutely loved seeing it through your eyes.
It was so lovely of George to hold down the fort at home for you.
Looking forward to your next video as usual. ❤
Love Meg & the pups ❤
Thanks Steph for sharing your trip. Loved looking at all the beautiful flowers and the beautiful streets of Amsterdam.
Looks like an amazing vacation. Thanks for sharing the beautiful images.
Thanks for watching Sue! 💚
Steph..thank you for sharing with us!! The trip looked like great time too!! I love all the beautiful gardens there!! Yummy foods too!!❤😊
Such a beautiful place…. So happy you got to go on this beautiful trip with friends . Love that George encouraged you to go❤
Steph what an AMAZING trip!!! Thank you so much for sharing with us 💕🌷🌷🌷
Those bulb prices were so good!! Beautiful places 💕 Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful flowers! Thanks for sharing!
What a fun trip, Steph! Thanks for sharing your trip to Amsterdam with us! 😊
How beautiful! I would love to visit Amsterdam and Bruges. It looks like an easy place to visit. No language barriers. Thank you for sharing and I'm so glad you had a wonderful trip.
How fun ! Thank you for sharing your vacation. 😊❤
How beautiful! Thanks for sharing your trip with us!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching Stef 🥰
Thank you for taking us along. What a beautiful place. ❤❤❤
Steph it looked like a fun trip. And should you ever want to see Holland domestically, and partake of authentic Dutch food come on over to Holland Michigan, the land of tulip festival in May in conjunction with the Holland Garden Club flower show.. which actually is free. I don't know if you've ever been here but your whole city tour of Amsterdam looked just like the city of Holland. And I live right near two lakes, Lake Michigan and Lake Macatawa which forms a triangle. This is zone 6B. I don't know what zone Amsterdam is but it looks like they grow a lot of the same things we have here in the US. And if you're ever here in October you can go to Veldheers... They carry hundreds of tulips and allium and daffodils and whatever else comes in the size of a bulb for planting in your zone.
That seemed like a trip of a lifetime!! ❤
How beautiful Steph! Thank you so much for showing us these beautiful places. It's like I traveled but I'm in my living room sipping my coffee on this rainy morning ❤
You are so welcome! I'm so glad you enjoyed it Darcey. Thank you so much for watching 🌱
Well, Stef, it was nice knowing you! I’m sure are fixing to move there…
Oh wow, thank you for taking us along on your trip, very interesting about the windmills, I didn't know about them pumping the water out, looks like you had a great trip.
Thank you so kindly for sharing this beautiful trip with us. I felt like I was there. I hope to make it to the Amsterdam area one day. George: Steph needs that glass greenhouse!!!❤
Such a fun video. Brought back memories of my trip there a couple of years ago.
I was there in 2023. Great experience. Went to see the windmills, flower market. We never knew we had to book a reservation to visit the museums, so didn't see them. We took the train to Belgium. We also too home lots of cheese
What a beautifull place to visit❤❤❤
What a wonderful trip to Amsterdam!! It was an inspiration!
Thank you so much Melinda, so glad you enjoyed it.
Really enjoy your sharing of all the places you visited and things that you are your friends did while visiting Amsterdam and France! Very nice to see.
Loved seeing your trip through the eyes of a gardener! Seeing such beautiful gardening in small nooks and crannies is very inspiring.
Thank you for sharing your trip... I really enjoyed hearing all about the different places and flowers to.
This video was so much fun , you had an amazing vacation, thanks for taking videos to show us all this beauty
Thanks Steph,so beautiful!!
Thank you for posting such beautiful pictures of your trip. I agree about Toulouse, France. It’s a very interesting city with wonderful food and lovely people. I’ve traveled there with the company I use to work for. Amsterdam looks like a wonderful city to visit. I would be in the position about figure what I could take home with me. Thanks again for the beautiful tour.
When in doubt, buy the extra suitcase! I visited Amsterdam 8 years ago and loved visiting the flower market. Wish I had bought more to bring home!😂
Amsterdam is so pretty. What a vacation!
Although I kept thinking of what Anne Frank and so many suffered.
I went to Amsterdam when i was young. I was there during winter. It was beautiful, but, as an obsessive gardener, I would love to visit again in summer. And, then, Paris again in Fall. I love plants and I’m an artist. So, I hope I get back there. This brought back a lot of wonderful memories with better color! Thanks 29:13
Can't Thank you enough for showing us around Amsterdam as a gardener. Loved all the things you showed us around. i am sure you had a great time. Green everywhere and very colorful. I love going on a carousel.
How fun ! I live about 15 mins from where you were. Just a tip you will need documents to take bulbs home to the US. Sometimes you can buy them on the airport and the paperwork there will be sorted for you. I hope that helps
Thank you Steph for taking us along, absolutely beautiful!!
Oh darn ! Now I’m looking for more tulips.
When I did re-enactments I would wear wooden shoes all day. I had heavy socks to cushion my feet but I found them comfortable. I got mine in Holland, Michigan in the 80s and still use them occasionally. What a lovely trip for you.
we "Dutchies" are great gardeners ;-) String of purls is called "erwtenplantje" here.
It was great rediscovering Amsterdam with you. Cheers 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺Bronwyn
Hi Stef🌺 . I enjoyed watching this amazing video of your trip . Every thing looks so pretty in Holand and France . Have a fantastic day . 🌺🌻🌺
What a great trip!! While in England this year I saw Acanthus which they referred to as Bear's Breeches! I had never seen it before. It sure makes a statement. Thanks for sharing! 💐
Thank you for letting us travel with you! Looked like a great trip.
Thanks for sharing this with us! Absolutely a beautiful place to visit.
This was an awesome tour!
Thank you for taking us along!
You do work hard!!!
My daughter and I went this past July also. It rained most of the days but we had a good time.
❤ this! Ams one of my favorite cities I used to travel there all the time late 80s and 90s and I would just order my tulip bulbs while I was there and like clockwork they would be shipped to my house and they continue to come back like for about five years so I thought that was wonderful 🌷🌷
Thank you for sharing about the reason for the windmills. I have a pair of wooden shoes from there that my Aunt bought me 😊 Enjoy your videos
Wow, Stef!! What memories you will have for a lifetime. The architecture and landscapes are gorgeous. (food also) Thanks for sharing your experience.
I really enjoyed your video especially the garden centre is amazing.
I just found your channel today and just watched George showing what he needed to water! I’m excited to have found you, I am also from Mass and look forward to watching all your videos!
Hi Suza! So glad you found me. Welcome to the channel 🌱
Your very welcome to our wonderful community here 🪴🌸🪴
Steph thank you for taking us along this amazing trip!! It was beautiful on video and now I must see this with my own eyes! What souvenirs did you bring home?
Oh Steph, would you keep on traveling and showing us gardens from all the beautiful small towns you visit? It is a tonic for those of us stuck home with 110 degree sweltering heat, who can't be outside in our more gardens for much of the day! Wonderful filming, and it all looks heavenly. 🌷🌿🌺🌻🌱
Wow Steph! What a wonderful trip! Such gorgeous flowers in so many spaces.
I've read that the wooden shoes are worn because so much of the Netherlands is soggy ground. Wooden shoes don't get ruined like leather shoes would.
That trip looks like it was so much fun!
Beautiful country, never been but is on my list!!!!
Beautiful!! Love the tuips!
They ship the bulbs when it’s time to plant ,friends have sent them to me when they went over .You were Blessed to go ,I hope to one day soon .Thanks for sharing your trip 🍃🌿
Amazing
I'm so happy you were able to visiit a very beautiful country
Oh my word - so happy for you and your adventure! Thanks for sharing the beauty and fun with us Steph~
thanks for sharing it is beautiful!!! hope you have a great time.
What a great trip! A place on my travel bucket list! So what did you end up bringing home with you Steph? Any dahlia tubers? Thanks for sharing! Loved it! 😊♥️
Hi Stacey, it was a great trip. Thank you!! To bring anything home would have required a certificate for customs. And since I was already at max capacity in my luggage, I didn't want the extra trouble. I went with my favorite line that keeps me from over consumption: "admire, but don't acquire". While this line doesn't help me much in the garden, it helps me very much in other aspects of my life. I very much enjoyed perusing the varieties and seeing what was available and made notes of things I would like to order to try this Fall, mostly alliums etc. Thank you so much for watching 💚
Thank you for showing this! I’m going to Amsterdam next summer, and I loved your mix of gardens and other sightseeing. You’ve given me plenty of ideas.
Steph, I had goosebumps when you showed the flower market in Amsterdam!!! First of all I was so fortunate to go to Europe in 1993 and to this day when anyone asks my favorite place it is hands down Netherlands/Amsterdam. I love that country! I cannot wait to see all the treasures you bring back with you!!! Oh how wonderful beautiful thank you thank you for this video!! This definitely brought me joy today!!
I loved going with you to Amsterdam! I look forward to the next video!
Thank you steph for the trip Amsterdam is gorgeous ! beautiful flowers & plants ivy looks pretty too glad you went😊🌞💚
I would be so overwhelmed in that shop I probably wouldn’t be able to make a decision.
I totally get that, and I would feel much the same if I had to make a decision to buy something. Thankfully my packed luggage made it so that I didn't have to decide 😅 but I thoroughly enjoyed checking everything out.
🌷 What an Amazing Trip you had. Perfect time of year to go over & tour 🌻 So quaint.
Thank you for sharing your trip! I too am prone to motion sickness and so I don’t travel much. What a beautiful place!
Fun tour. and thanks for sharing. Years ago I went to the Floriade in Amsterdam. It happens every 10 years and is the world's largest flower show.
Thanks for sharing Amsterdam. Heineken is my favourite beer. I think the magenta cosmos is called Rubenza.
FUN!!!!
Such fun!!❤
Erin, what a beautiful trip I have visited Amsterdam and Toulouse and found both cities wonderful. I loved following along with you the gardens of all sizes were amazing. There were several places you showed that I have not gone yet so I took notes. I hope to return during the tulip season.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I hope you get to visit during Tulip season, I hope to some day as well. -Steph 🌷
Absolutely stunning video of all the wonderful flowers 💐 I absolutely adore daffodils, I love to collect the beautiful doubles every year to my collection 🥰🥰
So fun❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing your travels with us! I am glad you could make it!❤
It’s good to see the prices of bulbs just to feel better that we are not idiots here paying so much for those bulbs😂.
Also passion flower is a native plant in Georgia, almost aggressive.
Thanks for this video. I head to Amsterdam next June.
Thanks for watching! The Blin Queen was a delicious spot for breakfast. Have a great trip.
Thank you so much for this!!!
Years ago, when I was spending a year between college and graduate school in England I met a young Dutchman who took me to see the bulb fields in bloom. It was truly a memorable experience. Somewhere there is a snapshot of me jumping onto an enormous pile of tulips that had been deadheaded from the fields. I am glad you enjoyed your trip and hope you get to go back one day to see the tulips in bloom, including Keukenhof.
Steph! Thanks so much for this wonderful tour. Very kind of you!
Thanks🎉
Wow, this is very cool. Thank you for sharing your time in Amsterdam with us !
Looks like you had an amazing trip! Thank you for sharing it with us!
Enjoyed watching your Amsterdam trip amongst the flowers! I visited last year and as a NE Yankee went gaga in the shops over the vast array of garden bulbs I planned to bring back home on the plane to plant in Western Mass - until a very nice salesman pulled me aside to tell me that I would not be permitted to bring the bulbs home to the US - Sadly US Customs will intercept the bulbs and not allow you to bring them home:-(
I wear my wooden shoes very often but would not say they were comfy. Just handy.
Muchas flores
Wow Steph what a wonderful trip !! If not too personal I was wondering what your regular job is ???
Maybe Cosmos 'Rubenza'.....I have grown them and they lean on the 5" side.
You said you can’t grow passion vine. I love in 9b on the coast of Northern California and if I’m not careful, it will take over!
My granddaughter danced in the Dutch parade in Holland Michigan for several years. They HAD to be in authentic Dutch dress and part of the official Dutch dress included wooden shoes. You NEEDED to buy them several sizes larger than you normally wear because they are so uncomfortable that most people had to wear multiple layers of socks when wearing them. About nine pair to be comfortable enough to dance through the parade. 🌺💚🙃
❤❤❤❤ thanks hon it's enjoyable take George with you next time the place is romantic and since you guys are high school sweetheart 😘
Go to the nearest post office or shipping and mail them home.
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Did you use a tour company?
The trip we planned and booked ourselves. We did use online searches to book tours of the canal, and of the Zaanse Schans. Also, the Anne Frank House Museum is booked far in advance as its a very popular attraction. We bought those tickets online about 6 weeks before our trip.
Found your channel today. Very inspired. Is it possible to share your hotel informations? I want to visit there. Have to find a partner first. Thanks
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Bulbs are so cheap 😭