Tulipmania Art Journal

A collection of remarkable facts about tulips

The first tulip growing in Europe was recorded in the city of Augsburg, Germany

Tulipa turcarum, Conrad Gessner.
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

In the spring of 1559, the Swiss botanist Conrad Gesner saw the tulip flowering for the first time, while visiting the garden of the magistrate Johannis Heinrich Herwart in Augsburg, Bavaria, and described it as “flowering with a single beautifully red flower, large, like a red lily…”.

Tulips keep growing after having been cut

09/06/2020

Tulipmania Art

Seems surprising, but is absolutely true, the regenerative powers of tulips allow them to keep…

Almost 80 years after the Dutch tulip mania, Lale Devri – the tulip era, occurred in the Ottoman Empire

06/07/2020

Tulipmania Art

Although the tulip arrived to the Netherlands from the Ottoman Empire, the passion for this…

Tulips are fragrant

03/09/2020

Tulipmania Art

While it is true that the majority of tulips are odourless, some of them are…

In Persian mythology the tulip is considered to be the flower of love

22/08/2020

Tulipmania Art

The Persian legend of the red tulip tells the love story of Farhad and princess…

“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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