Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
Tulips keep growing after having been cut
Seems surprising, but is absolutely true, the regenerative powers of tulips allow them to keep growing after being cut and placed into a vase. If they are happy with the temperature and do not get too direct and hot sunlight, they can bring you joy for about a week in the vase and gain, in the meantime, up to 8 cm in height.
There are vases especially designed for holding tulips
Tulips have mesmerised people for centuries in different countries around the world and it was somehow normal and even inevitable that such a praised flower…
The tulip name comes from the Turkish word for turban
The name the tulip originally bore in its homeland, Persia, was “laleh”, defining it as “Flower of God”, because the letters forming the name of…
At the beginning of the 17th century noblewomen in France wore rare tulips on their décolletages instead of jewellery
As surprising as it may sound, before taking over Holland, the tulip gained popularity in France, causing a mini version of the tulip mania there,…
Tulip bulbs are edible
Tulip bulbs have actually never been purposefully regarded as a food item until World War II, when during the winter of 1944-1945, the Netherlands were…