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The Netherlands is famous for its tulips.
It sends 3 billion to other countries every year.
The third Saturday of January's a special day.
It's National Tulip Day.
Hardwell is a Dutch DJ.
He opened the festival this year in Amsterdam.
Hardwell loves tulips.
And now there's a new tulip – 'Hardwell'.
There's a special garden.
Visitors can pick the flowers.
For student Claire Hanssen, the flowers are important.
They bring colour inside in winter.
Tulips don't come from the Netherlands.
They first came from the mountains of Central Asia.
They arrived in the Netherlands in the 1500s.
Everyone started to want tulips.
The flowers became big business.
The product cost more than gold.
Then, in 1637, things went wrong.
There was a market crash.
The price of tulips fell.
This woman's from the Philippines.
She's enjoying the festival and the flowers.
They don't grow in her home country.