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 ...
Tulips were once a hot commodity, leading to an economic crash in Holland in the 17th century. Plant tulip bulbs in the fall for successful growth, ensuring proper chilling period before blooming.
At first, tulip bulbs were sufficiently unfamiliar to be ... Adriaen Pauw, who was fabulously wealthy and the closest thing Holland had to a prime minister at the time, built a garden full of ...
In the 17th Century the Dutch went mad trading tulip bulbs in the hope they could make a massive profit. But was Tulip Mania - a parable of greed compared to the recent heavy investment in the ...