Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
It takes 6 years to grow a tulip from a seed
Even though we are used to perceiving tulips as bulbous plants, they can also propagate by seeds. It is quite a lengthy process though, and it takes about 6 years for the seed to develop into a bulb and grow strong enough to bloom.
You are probably thinking that there is a misprint in the previous sentence, but tulips indeed have tepals and not petals. For an explanation we…
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…
After having been brought to the Netherlands in 1593 by Carolus Clusius, the prefect of the Botanical Garden of the University of Leiden, tulips started…