Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
There are no blue tulips
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 that there is one colour absolutely uncharacteristic for tulips, missing from their colour spectrum – the blue.
Although it often occurs on the basal blotch of tulips, it never completely tints the blooms, and even if there are tulip varieties called blue, like for example Blue Diamond or Blue Wow, their blooms are actually violet or lilac and never really reach a genuinely blue colour.
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…
There are vases especially designed for holding tulips
Tulips have mesmerised people for centuries in different countries around the world and it was…
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…
Almost 80 years after the Dutch tulip mania, Lale Devri – the tulip era, occurred in the Ottoman Empire
Although the tulip arrived to the Netherlands from the Ottoman Empire, the passion for this…