Tulipmania Art Journal

A collection of remarkable facts about tulips

It takes 6 years to grow a tulip from a seed

Even though we are used to perceiving tulips as bulbous plants, they can also propagate by seeds. It is quite a lengthy process though, and it takes about 6 years for the seed to develop into a bulb and grow strong enough to bloom.

Tulips of tulip mania times are called broken and are illegal in the Netherlands

01/10/2020

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The capacity of tulips to change their colours and, after years of monochrome blooming, to…

There are no blue tulips

02/12/2020

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With over 3000 different registered varieties, tulips come in almost every imaginable colour tint and…

Tulips were the cause of the first major financial bubble in human history

04/11/2020

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After having been brought to the Netherlands in 1593 by Carolus Clusius, the prefect of…

Tulpeiland – an island in the shape of a tulip adorns the shore of the Wolderwijd lake near the city of Zeewolde, the Netherlands

04/03/2020

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The construction of the symbolic landmark started in 2014 and its infrastructure is still under…

“Everything you didn’t know about the tulip”

Book

Did you know that tulips don’t have petals and can grow from seeds and not only from bulbs? Have you ever heard of the tulip formula, the tulip coin or one single tulip bulb serving as a bride’s dowry? Were you aware that the Peace tulip is actually dedicated to John Lennon and Yoko Ono? All these and many more other curious facts about the tulip will be revealed in all detail in our book.

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