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.
Tulpeiland – an island in the shape of a tulip adorns the shore of the Wolderwijd lake near the city of Zeewolde, the Netherlands
The construction of the symbolic landmark started in 2014 and its infrastructure is still under…
There are no blue tulips
With over 3000 different registered varieties, tulips come in almost every imaginable colour tint and…
Tulips were the cause of the first major financial bubble in human history
After having been brought to the Netherlands in 1593 by Carolus Clusius, the prefect of…
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…
