Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
The most expensive tulip bulb in history costed as much as the finest house on the most fashionable Amsterdam canal
This rare bulb was a Semper Augustus tulip and in January 1637 its price reached 10,000 guilders. As Mike Dash, the author of “Tulipomania” puts it, it was “sufficient to purchase one of the grandest homes on the most fashionable canal in Amsterdam, complete with a coach house and an 80-ft (25-m) garden”.
Semper Augustus tulip. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
The most expensive tulip bulb in history costed as much as the finest house on the most fashionable Amsterdam canal
This rare bulb was a Semper Augustus tulip and in January 1637 its price reached…
The National Tulip Day in Holland is celebrated on the third Saturday of January
The tulip season in the Netherlands officially starts long before the gardens get coloured by…
Tulip bulbs are edible
Tulip bulbs have actually never been purposefully regarded as a food item until World War…
There are tulips that have more than one flower per stem
Although the classical image of the tulip most of us picture is a single flower…