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 ...
Nothing says spring like tulips, and many gardeners love that the gorgeous blooms come back each year with no replanting ...
Tulips like to be planted at a depth of 3 times the size of the bulbs which is about 4 to 8 inches deep. They require well-drained soils. Poorly drained or wet soils often cause decline and ...
Four-hundred guilders might not buy a house ... But that doesn't mean the bursting of the tulip bubble didn't cause some issues. "Bulbs stay in the ground for almost the entire year and so ...
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 ...