Saturday 23 November 2013

[ ::: ♥Keep_Mailing♥ ::: ]™ AMAZING HOLLAND'S FLOWER PARADE


Holland is predominantly famous for 2 things, the first is that it's one of the best places to 

live in the world (and most liberal), secondly they are the envy of the world when 

it comes to flowers.

 They have fields of flowers so famous in fact, that tourists flock to them each year.

So it's not surprising really that Zundert, a country town in the heart of 

Noord Brabant should be host to what is now the biggest and most impressive 

flower parade the world has ever seen.

Fish Flower Sculpture

 

It's called Bloemencorso, with each entry being a float made entirely of flowers, 

but not just any flowers – they can only be dahlias. That's the only rule – you can create,

 design and bring to life anything you like. The town and local judges then vote for their favourite 

flower floats and the winners are celebrated, with their works lauded around town until it 

all begins again the following year. Organized since 1936, the festival takes place on every

 1st Sunday of September and is nothing short of Spectacular!

Elephant


Horse Flower Sculpture

Tiger Flower Sculpture

Chase Flower Sculpture

Quasimodo Front Flower Sculpture

Quasimodo Flower Sculpture

Skeleton Flower Sculpture

Zoo Flower Sculpture

Every year, the parade consists of around 20 different floats, the construction of 

which is non-commercial and totally volunteer. The massive master pieces, 

created from dahlias only, are put during the summer by the

 neighbourhoods of a town that's home to 20.000 people only.

Dove Flower Sculpture

Battle Flower Sculpture

Cow Flower Sculpture

Surreal Flower Sculpture

Space Flower Sculpture

Ship Flower Sculpture

As you can imagine, it takes A LOT of work and even more dedication.

 Hundreds of people collaborate to construct each float, tediously working away

 wrapping wire, sticks, glue, cardboard not to mention thousands of flowers together to

 create these gigantic and jaw-dropping creations. Every year the likes of fish, vampires, 

tigers & even meerkats got their day in the sun – which makes you 

wonder more you would get to see in the next few years.

Asian Flower Sculpture

Funky Flower Sculpture

Lady Flower Sculpture

Man Flower Sculpture

Massive Fish Flower Sculpture

Red Indian Flower Sculpture

If you're in the Netherlands and are planning on attending this eye-catching event, 

you'd better be there between September 1 & 2 – as that's the confirmed date for the 2013 show.

Red Flower Sculpture

Meercats Flower Sculpture

Peace Flower Sculpture

Rhino Flower Sculpture

Sheep Flower Sculpture

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