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.
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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…”.
As you already know from our yesterday’s post, the flamed and streaked bi-coloured tulips praised in the tulip mania times were affected by the “Mosaic”…
The tulip season in the Netherlands officially starts long before the gardens get coloured by the satiny tulip blooms and it happens on the National…
The Persian legend of the red tulip tells the love story of Farhad and princess Shirin. While having no noble origin or title and nothing…
Great Britain has its particular love story with the tulip. The bulbs reached England in 1577 and ever since the tulip was extensively grown. Many…