EDIEVAL steeples and towers are exaggeratedly tall in southern Lincolnshire, visible for miles over the low-lying Fens. In a district that is officially known as South Holland, the country’s highest wooden spire is not far from the tallest windmill. And the landscape is fittingly tulip-oriented: according to Stephen Munson, whose family has farmed here for a century, local growers produce more than 200 million tulips every season. One key difference between the horizontal quality of South Holland and Holland itself is that British tulips are grown solely for cutting and are reared under glass for protection. Across the North Sea, the focus is on bulbs, grown hard in tulip fields for export around the
