Best of all, this tulip, which also has an AGM, is reliably perennial, returning year on year in borders. Available from ...

And in early 1637, tulip bulbs were reaching some truly extraordinary prices. Then, very suddenly, it was over. In February that year, bulb wholesalers gathered in Haarlem, a day's walk west of ...

In the 17th Century the Dutch went mad trading tulip bulbs in the hope they could ... house on the canal in Amsterdam for the price of one bulb," he said. "Then it collapsed," he added.