Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
The tulip facts and stories in our journal are a sneak preview of the book that we are working on and will be glad to present you soon.
Tulips fascinated, inspired and mesmerised people around the world for centuries. Their history is full of mysteries and unexpected twists and turns and their present is no less amazing. Gaze into our tulip journal to discover some tulip secrets and, if you like them, our book will further help you to find your way in assembling the enormous puzzle of the tulip world.
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…
The tulip bloom is formed of … TEPALS
You are probably thinking that there is a misprint in the previous sentence, but tulips…
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…
There are no blue tulips
With over 3000 different registered varieties, tulips come in almost every imaginable colour tint and…
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…
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…
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…
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 of tulip mania times are called broken and are illegal in the Netherlands
The capacity of tulips to change their colours and, after years of monochrome blooming, to…
Modern tulip varieties similar in appearance to the tulips of the tulip mania times are called Rembrandts
As you already know from our yesterday’s post, the flamed and streaked bi-coloured tulips praised…
Tulips are fragrant
While it is true that the majority of tulips are odourless, some of them are…
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…
A stylised tulip, enciphering the word “Allah”, represents the national emblem of Iran and is featured on the Iranian flag
Originating from Persia and being called “laleh” – “Flower of God” in Persian, in spite…
There are tulips that have more than one flower per stem
Although the classical image of the tulip most of us picture is a single flower…
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…
The most praised Turkish tulips, unlike the tulips sought after by the Dutch during tulip mania, had elongated and pointed, almost dagger-shaped petals.
It is curious how the standards by which a flower’s beauty is appreciated may differ…
Tulips keep growing after having been cut
Seems surprising, but is absolutely true, the regenerative powers of tulips allow them to keep…
In the Victorian Times hundreds of Tulip Societies were established all over Britain, one of them, the Wakefield and North of England Tulip Society is still thriving nowadays
Great Britain has its particular love story with the tulip. The bulbs reached England in…
A folk tale from Devon tells that fairies lulled their babies at night in the cups of tulip flowers
The story has it, that there was once an old lady who planted an amazing…
There are vases especially designed for holding tulips
Tulips have mesmerised people for centuries in different countries around the world and it was…
Tulip bulbs are edible
Tulip bulbs have actually never been purposefully regarded as a food item until World War…
The National Tulip Day in Holland is celebrated on the third Saturday of January
The tulip season in the Netherlands officially starts long before the gardens get coloured by…
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…