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Private Tour Dutch Treat In April 2017, a blooming array of more than 10,000 tulips was dispatched from Holland to festoon the Dutch ambassador’s stately Kalorama residence. Though Dutch Tulip Days fell by the wayside 10 years ago, this Washington tradition perfectly embodied one of the goals of Ambassador Henne Schuwer’s diplomatic mission: the celebration of things quintessentially Dutch to create moments of connection among people. He decided to bring it back. “It gave us an opportunity,” he says of the three-day event that took place once again at his residence. It encompassed receptions, meals, and talks on subjects ranging from tulip care to world hunger with leaders in business, politics, and agriculture in attendance. “You try to play to your strength—and tulips are our strength.”

Schuwer and his wife, Lena Boman, began their diplomatic stint in Washington in September 2015. They had lived in DC with their four children from 1997 to 2002 when Sch