Tulips

Newest Review: ... of flowering before the bloom starts to wilt and the stem starts to bend over. Tulips are seen as the most popular Spring flower and many brides choose to use them in their wedding bouquets. The tulip has fifteen different categories, each category has many different types of flower. There is such a vast range of colours on offer, from the more subtle paler colours to the noisy and vibrant hues. I enjoy to see pots of colour arrive start to bloom in Spring, my first choice would be to pot up some `fringed tulips`. Such a pretty bloom that tends to flower towards the latter part of Spring. If you want to buy Fringed tulip bulbs you may well... more

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Tulips: When Its Spring Again.... (756 words)
by - written on 08/02/09 (Very useful, 118 readings)
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As we head into the Spring months it is good to realise that we have the beauty of the spring bulbs to look forward to. Many of the supermarkets and florists have potted bulbs on sale already which are fairly inexpensive. Tulips have to be a favourite with many, there are so many varieties which offer a wonderfully attractive display of colour. Last year I planted some dwarf tulips in pots and although I had a good colourful show I have chosen to revert back to filling my tubs with the normal bulbs which provide stems at around 15 inches high. A few days ago I was walking around Lidl`s discount store and came across large bunches of healthy ... Read the complete review

Truly Tulips (1413 words)
by - written on 20/03/08 (Very useful, 97 readings)
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There are a great many wonderful plants and flowers on our earth and my favorite of them all is the Tulip, it may not be the most exotic or exciting of plants but I think it is one of true, simple beauty, one that is a dream to grow and a marvel to display. I've loved Tulips since I was a girl and my mother grew them in our garden, at first they seemed so plain, single flowers, bright in colour but unfussy but as the years passed and different varieties were introduced to our garden I realized how diverse and wonderful they really were, my love for the flowers finally reached it's peak when I selected white Tulips for my wedding bouquet and was presented with the most ... Read the complete review

Tulips: Time to plant your tulips (701 words)
by - written on 04/10/06 (Very useful, 1612 readings)
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The tulip does not as you may think originate from Holland, but probably from around the Crimea and around the black sea. The tulip is in fact the national flower of turkey and Iran. The tulip was first seen in Turkey by Europeans in1556. Tulips became luxury items. In 1593 a botanist at a Dutch university cultivated the bulb. In the early 1600 bulbs of the tulip were cultivarerd and new colours and ones with coloured stripes developed theyvery sought after and expensive. By 1630 Holland had fields and fields of tulips The term tulip mania is used to describe this time which crashed in 1637. Apparently during the second world war with food shortages ... Read the complete review