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.
The first tulip growing in Europe was recorded in the city of Augsburg, Germany
In the spring of 1559, the Swiss botanist Conrad Gesner saw the tulip flowering for…
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…
In Persian mythology the tulip is considered to be the flower of love
The Persian legend of the red tulip tells the love story of Farhad and princess…
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…
