Lincolnshire Garden Club

06/13/2026

At the Historical Gardens of Aalsmeer, we walked the aisles of the rose greenhouses. In there, they maintain old rose varieties dating back to 1900. You can smell the wonderful fragrances of old rose varieties.

06/10/2026

While at the Historical Gardens of Aalsmeer, we learned about the iconic Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) auction clock from the 1930s is a preserved historical artifact from the former Aalsmeer 'Bloemenlust' auction. It survives today as a fully functional centerpiece in the world's smallest flower auction building, which is part of the Historische Tuin Aalsmeer (Horticultural Museum)

06/07/2026

Highlights of the Netherlands/Belgium tour. We visited the Historical Gardens of Aalsmeer. An expert provided a 1 hour tour and discussed the horticulture from 1700 to 1960. They discussed the cultivation of fruit, trees and strawberries.

Historical Garden Aalsmeer

05/30/2026

Let's play a game of 'Where's Waldo - Tulip version'. At the Keukenhof, the flower beds are changed every year. Every once in a while, a single bulb might be overlooked while renovating last year's bed of flowers; resulting in the appearance of one flower that is not like the others. Here is an abundant picture of fringed tulips but there is 1 single triumph tulip in the midst of it. Can you spot the one tulip that is not like the others?

05/29/2026

A visit to the Keukenhof was filled with an experience with the most beautiful flowers!

Keukenhof, also known as the Garden of Europe, is one of the world's largest flower gardens, situated in the municipality of Lisse, in the Netherlands. According to the official website, Keukenhof Park covers an area of 32 hectares and approximately 7 million flower bulbs are planted in the gardens annually.

05/26/2026

The Lincolnshire Garden Club hosted a fundraiser trip to Holland and Belgium in April 2026. The trip included visits to see Dutch tulips, Keukenhof and historical gardens in Aalsmeer, visiting a Gouda cheese market, visiting various churches, visiting a flower auction, a private grower, a flower picking garden as well as visiting The Hague, Delft & Bruges.

Our first stop was Tulip Experience Amsterdam, which featured a tulip garden, a tulip museum and a flower picking garden. https://www.tulipexperienceamsterdam.nl/en

05/25/2026

05/23/2026

More book recommendations from Cindy Crosby's presentation about Literary Gardens. A few fiction titles that feature gardens in the stories were:

- Cadfael Chronicles, mystery novels by Author Ellis Peters
- Thyme of Death, A Dilly of a Death and Forget Me Never by author Susan Witting Albert
- Rappacini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Agate Christie mysteries such as Murder at the Vicarage, Dead Man's Folly and Nemesis. By the way, did you know that she is the best selling fiction writer of all time (outsold and out published globally by William Shakespeare

If you are interested in connecting with Cindy Crosby, check out her blog called, Tuesdays in the Tall Grass.
Cindy Crosby

05/21/2026

Cindy Crosby did an excellent job talking about how gardens inspire authors and discussed various nonfiction, fiction and poetry that featured gardens in one way or another.

A few nonfiction titles that she suggested were:

- Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, by Author Michael Pollan
- Second Nature by Author Michael Pollan
- The $64 Tomato by William Alexander
- Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World by William Alexander

If you are interested in connecting with Cindy Crosby, check out her blog called, Tuesdays in the Tall Grass.
Cindy Crosby

05/16/2026

What is a LITERARY GARDEN? Please join us for our next meeting...

Thursday, May 21, 2026 ...

"Literary Gardens"
Presented by: Cindy Crosby
At: Lincolnshire - Riverwoods Fire Station, 671 Woodlands Parkway, Vernon Hills
Continental Breakfast - 9:30am
Business meeting - 9:45am
Presentation Program - 10:30am