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
Tulip bulbs are edible
Tulip bulbs have actually never been purposefully regarded as a food item until World War…
Tulips keep growing after having been cut
Seems surprising, but is absolutely true, the regenerative powers of tulips allow them to keep…
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…
Tulips are fragrant
While it is true that the majority of tulips are odourless, some of them are…
