Dutch farmers donate 200,000 tulips to Lviv for fifth consecutive year
The city council expressed gratitude to the Netherlands and Ukrainian consulates for facilitating the cooperation, specifically highlighting Emile Bernard de Sevren Jacquet, Arjan Smith, and Yurii Petrychko. Officials gave special recognition to the Meest logistics company for organizing the bulb transportation, noting that solving transport logistics presented one of the key joint challenges. The company has handled the deliveries for two consecutive years.
Photo source: Lviv City CouncilAccording to Mykytchak, Lviv runs the City of Spring campaign in partnership with the Tourism Office. The city's interactive floral map created under the initiative enjoys widespread popularity among residents and tourists, who visit locations to explore tulip varieties and colors and find ideal photo spots.
Meest Group handled the transport of the bulbs from the Netherlands to Ukraine. Company representative Oksana Nykolyshyn shared that Meest joined the initiative because the company views it not merely as cargo transport, but as a chance to bring positive emotions to Ukrainians.
"For Meest, participating in such a beautiful initiative brings great joy," Oksana Nykolyshyn emphasized.
She also thanked the Lviv City Council and the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources for the opportunity to support the project. Logistics teams organized transport from the Netherlands into Ukraine, distributing the bulbs onward to Sumy, Odesa, Kyiv, Dnipro, and Lviv. Transit from the Netherlands to Ukraine took two days.
Oksana Lutsko, deputy head of the Ecology and Natural Resources Department at the Lviv City Council, shared that the shipment includes white, pink, purple, and peony-flowered tulips.
This batch of tulips features several newly bred varieties with no information yet available in open internet sources," Oksana Lutsko explained.
Crews are currently unloading the bulbs before distributing them among city districts, parks, schools, hospitals, social centers, and communities within the Lviv agglomeration. The Ecology Department prepared a general needs table to work with institution heads in deciding the required bulb quantities and colors for each location.
Background
As Rubryka previously reported, tulips bloomed at the Hrybovychi landfill during its ongoing second, biological stage of reclamation. Alongside planted trees and hundreds of other plants, they already shape a green landscape on land that served as a waste dump until recently.
During the second stage of reclamation, specialists will plant perennial grasses and build a surface water purification and firefighting reservoir.
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