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

04/11/2020

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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

26/09/2020

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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

19/10/2020

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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

13/07/2020

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Although the classical image of the tulip most of us picture is a single flower…

“Everything you didn’t know about the tulip”

Book

Did you know that tulips don’t have petals and can grow from seeds and not only from bulbs? Have you ever heard of the tulip formula, the tulip coin or one single tulip bulb serving as a bride’s dowry? Were you aware that the Peace tulip is actually dedicated to John Lennon and Yoko Ono? All these and many more other curious facts about the tulip will be revealed in all detail in our book.

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