Tulips are the national flower of the Netherlands, with much of its agriculture dedicated to growing the flower. Tulips are ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Polly Nicholson was already developing her small organic flower farm, the Wiltshire-based Bayntun Flowers, when, in 2015, she ...

Tulips are stunning spring bulbs that flower in April and May. They grow well in both pots and borders, and the bulbs should be planted in late autumn. Which? Gardening magazine grew and compared ...

Dutch farmer Erik van Dam was a bit tied up directing the plowing and sowing machines in a greenhouse of his Triflor tulip farm in the Netherlands, while others were busy harvesting the full-blown ...

Now if you decide to plant later in order to get the bulbs on sale, you should ... Of course we know that the Dutch transported them to Holland and bread them to the tulips we know today.

The late tulips, daffodils, Dutch iris and alliums will take the stage in mid-June. Lilies, the queens of the garden, will make their entrance in late June to early July. Most bulbs are easy to ...

The ground is soft and easily planted with bulbs. The last spring flowering ... Perfection are feathered with dark red, like tulips in an old Dutch painting Are they worth the cost and trouble ...

In total in our sector, we lost around eight to nine percent of the bulbs in the field ... If climate change is a longer-term challenge, Dutch tulip farmers are fretting about an even more ...

Drill holes in the base for good drainage since tulip bulbs rot easily in soggy soil. Half fill the pot with regular potting mix and arrange the bulbs with the pointy side facing up.