Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
There are no blue tulips
With over 3000 different registered varieties, tulips come in almost every imaginable colour tint and combination. By such an incredible chromatic richness, it is curious that there is one colour absolutely uncharacteristic for tulips, missing from their colour spectrum – the blue.
Although it often occurs on the basal blotch of tulips, it never completely tints the blooms, and even if there are tulip varieties called blue, like for example Blue Diamond or Blue Wow, their blooms are actually violet or lilac and never really reach a genuinely blue colour.
In the Victorian Times hundreds of Tulip Societies were established all over Britain, one of them, the Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society is still thriving nowadays
Great Britain has its particular love story with the tulip. The bulbs reached England in…
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…
Tulips keep growing after having been cut
Seems surprising, but is absolutely true, the regenerative powers of tulips allow them to keep…
Tulip bulbs are edible
Tulip bulbs have actually never been purposefully regarded as a food item until World War…