The neighbors of Theo Visser from Wilhelminaoord are lucky. Every morning when they push aside their curtains, they see a beautiful collection of colors in Visser’s tulip garden. The eighty year old works hours every week on his own Keukenhof.
No fewer than seventy different types of tulips grow in Visser’s garden. No, he doesn’t know the name of every flower, but that doesn’t make him any less proud of his collection. “It’s beautiful,” he says with a twinkle in his eye. “The local residents also enjoy it. I sometimes call the elderly home in the area. Then I say: ‘Klein Keukenhof is open.’ Then they come this way with a wheelchair and walker. They can’t stop talking about the tulips. I think that’s wonderful.”
Visser works up a sweat in the morning to keep his garden looking spick and span, after which he can rest in the afternoon. It produces an environment that includes yellow, white, purple, red, blue and pink tulips. Visser thinks the most special is the tulip with a stem with two bulbs on top. The neighbor is so impressed by all the colors that he gave up part of his own garden to expand the tulip paradise.
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