Nothing says spring like tulips, and many gardeners love that the gorgeous blooms come back each year with no replanting ...
Tulip fanatics tend to place their bulb orders in July, when suppliers open their order books and the memories of spring successes or new discoveries are still fresh in the mind. They may have ...
Bloom times vary as well with some tulips blooming very early in the spring season, just about the time that daffodils open ...
In February that year, bulb wholesalers gathered in Haarlem, a day's walk west of Amsterdam, to find that nobody wished to buy. Within a few days, Dutch tulip prices had fallen tenfold.
For this week's feature, I watched the Holland Parks and Recreation Department prepare and plant thousands of tulip bulbs along Washington Boulevard with help from students at Holland Christian ...