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 name the tulip originally bore in its homeland, Persia, was “laleh”, defining it as “Flower of God”, because the letters forming the name of…
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…
In the spring of 1559, the Swiss botanist Conrad Gesner saw the tulip flowering for the first time, while visiting the garden of the magistrate…
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…
As surprising as it may sound, before taking over Holland, the tulip gained popularity in France, causing a mini version of the tulip mania there,…
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…
After having been brought to the Netherlands in 1593 by Carolus Clusius, the prefect of the Botanical Garden of the University of Leiden, tulips started…
Even though we are used to perceiving tulips as bulbous plants, they can also propagate by seeds. It is a quite lengthy process though, and…
The capacity of tulips to change their colours and, after years of monochrome blooming, to suddenly bear flowers fantastically tinted by striking flames and streaks…
As you already know from our yesterday’s post, the flamed and streaked bi-coloured tulips praised in the tulip mania times were affected by the “Mosaic”…
While it is true that the majority of tulips are odourless, some of them are blessed with quite a pleasant and sometimes intense fragrance. But…
The Persian legend of the red tulip tells the love story of Farhad and princess Shirin. While having no noble origin or title and nothing…
Originating from Persia and being called “laleh” – “Flower of God” in Persian, in spite of its expatriation and naturalisation across the world, the tulip…
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…
Although the tulip arrived to the Netherlands from the Ottoman Empire, the passion for this special flower reached its peak in the Ottoman Empire only…
It is curious how the standards by which a flower’s beauty is appreciated may differ across time, countries and cultures. We all remember the majestic…
Seems surprising, but is absolutely true, the regenerative powers of tulips allow them to keep growing after being cut and placed into a vase. If…
Great Britain has its particular love story with the tulip. The bulbs reached England in 1577 and ever since the tulip was extensively grown. Many…
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…
Tulips have mesmerised people for centuries in different countries around the world and it was somehow normal and even inevitable that such a praised flower…
Tulip bulbs have actually never been purposefully regarded as a food item until World War II, when during the winter of 1944-1945, the Netherlands were…
The tulip season in the Netherlands officially starts long before the gardens get coloured by the satiny tulip blooms and it happens on the National…
The construction of the symbolic landmark started in 2014 and its infrastructure is still under development. The structure consists of four islands, the main and…