Tag: Tulips

  • Send love or welcome an early spring with fresh-cut tulips

    They inspired a speculative financial bubble in the 1600s and a hit song in the United States three centuries later. Still today, tulips remain one of the most popular flowers in the world and a sure sign of spring when they rise from the ground in all of their beautiful bounty. If you need a…

  • In January, it’s a tip-top time to tip-toe through the tulips

    Tulips arrived in Western Europe in the late 1500s from their native Turkey, looking unlike anything else on the continent. As an import, they “commanded the same exoticism that spices and Oriental rugs did,” according to Investopedia.com. And by the first part of the 1600s, the rarest bulbs traded for as much as six times…