![COLOURFUL QUILT COLOURFUL QUILT](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/netherlands-tulips-spring-051.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
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Tulips are lovely from up close, but their real beauty emerges when you zoom out and view the stunning rainbow patchwork created by tulip fields across the Netherlands. Spring has finally sprung.
![COLOURFUL QUILT An aerial view of tulips in Lisse, Netherlands on April 9, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/netherlands-tulips-spring-05.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Aerial view of flower fields near the Keukenhof park in Lisse Aerial view of flower fields near the Keukenhof park, also known as the Garden of Europe, in Lisse, Netherlands, on April 9, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/netherlands-tulips-spring-04.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Aerial view of flower fields near the Keukenhof park in Lisse An aerial view of flower fields near the Keukenhof park, in Lisse, Netherlands, on April 9, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/netherlands-tulips-spring-03.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Aerial view of flower fields near the Keukenhof park in Lisse An aerial view of flower fields near the Keukenhof park, in Lisse, Netherlands, on April 9, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/netherlands-tulips-spring-02.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
![Aerial view of flowers fields near the Keukenhof park in Lisse An aerial view of flower fields near the Keukenhof park, in Lisse, Netherlands, on April 9, 2014.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/netherlands-tulips-spring-01.jpg?quality=75&w=2400)
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