Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
The most expensive tulip bulb in history costed as much as the finest house on the most fashionable Amsterdam canal
This rare bulb was a Semper Augustus tulip and in January 1637 its price reached 10,000 guilders. As Mike Dash, the author of “Tulipomania” puts it, it was “sufficient to purchase one of the grandest homes on the most fashionable canal in Amsterdam, complete with a coach house and an 80-ft (25-m) garden”.
Semper Augustus tulip. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
The story has it, that there was once an old lady who planted an amazing flower garden and her tulips were so beautiful, that the …
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 …
Although the classical image of the tulip most of us picture is a single flower crowning the top of the stem, it is not uncommon …
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 …