23/04/2022
🇳🇱🌷Flower Parade🌷🇳🇱
Thanks to the efforts of all volunteers, the flower parade can happily drive again after 2 years of Corona. A special year, 75th anniversary 🇳🇱
It all started with Willem Warmenhoven ( my grandfather) who walked in 1946 with a flower decorated horse and carriage in a liberation procession.
In 1947 my grandfather (Willem Warmenhoven) designed the Wale.
In the first years of the parade, participants were not tied to a theme and current events had inspired him to make the Whale, because the Netherlands participated in whaling again with the ship “Willem Barendsz”
My grandfather and father (Cor Warmenhoven) and all 23 employees of the nursery set to work a month before the parade, full time.
An old truck survived the war and was the base of the Whale, made of blue hyacinths. And now after all these years, more than a
million visitors from all over the world , how proud and happy my grandfather and father would be today.
Since 2021 the Flower Parade on the Unesco World Heritage list. “ It’s a way of life that creates togetherness” ❤️🌷
With love from Holland 🌷
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