
Tulipmania Art Journal
A collection of remarkable facts about tulips
Tulips keep growing after having been cut
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 they are happy with the temperature and do not get too direct and hot sunlight, they can bring you joy for about a week in the vase and gain, in the meantime, up to 8 cm in height.
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…
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…
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…
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…