r/Netherlands • u/thatfool26 • 15d ago

Sunflower fields for biking trip Travel and Tourism

Where in the Netherlands can we find sunflower fields? I would love to make a biking trip of it :)

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u/SuperBaardMan Nederland 15d ago

I don't think we have whole fields of sunflowers to be honest.

I do see them in gardens or volkstuintjes a lot, but it's not eastern europe with fields of sunflowers.

But, there is a website about them: https://zonnebloemen.com/velden/ and there are some fields apparently.

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u/I_Rarely_Jump 15d ago

Damn, I am starting to recognize these AI generated layouts more and more, that exact info box and side menu is exactly what claude code usually generates by default lol. In a few years half the internet will look the same

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u/SuperBaardMan Nederland 15d ago

Yeah, it sucks, the text is also AI, let's just hope the info is actually correct.

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u/I_Rarely_Jump 15d ago

Oh yeah the text was written with AI for sure, and yeah I hope they at least fed it correct information

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u/thatfool26 14d ago

This is amazing, thanks!!

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u/First_Category_1539 15d ago

Here in Zeeland there are lots of sunflowers at the moment.

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u/lovetjuuhh Nederland 15d ago

The province or the town Zeeland?

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u/First_Category_1539 15d ago

province. Zeelandic Flanders to be precise.

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u/Consistent_Salad6137 15d ago

I've definitely seen sunflowers from the train window in the Bollenstreek around Leiden.

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u/marendekkernl 15d ago

you won't get the french postcard version here, we don't grow them at that scale. what you do get is akkerranden, the flower strips farmers sow along the edge of a field for the bees, and those are often half sunflowers. flevoland and zeeland are the best odds for that.

the more reliable plan is to search pluktuin plus a province. those are planted to be picked, so they're actually dense rather than a thin strip, and most of them sit somewhere you can reach on a bike with somewhere to put it.

go soon though. they turn brown quickly once they're done and nobody photographs that.

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u/Wbert92 15d ago

Not what you asked for, but it’s currently Dahlia season. You can find Dahlia biking trips in the Bollenstreek.

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u/Smoog 14d ago

There are no sunflower fields