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The tale of the Dutch tulip craze is a cautionary one – the first example of an economic bubble. As a new exhibition of flower paintings opens in London, Alastair Sooke looks back.
Tulip season is long over in Holland, but spring is just around the corner in Australia. If your clients want to see their favorite flowers before next April, suggest they visit Melbourne, where ...
Others are newer to me and, therefore, slightly worrying. They include ‘Menton’, a shapely and very tall single late with pearlescent coral-pink flowers that may clash horribly. I have heard ...
Tulip flowers only bloom for a short time, but in this week's Garden Guide, Alex Calamia shows you how to keep these flowers around for longer.
MELBOURNE’S famous street art laneway received a splash of colour overnight with the arrival of 35,000 red tulips.
In the year 1636, a single tulip bulb allegedly was traded for, among other items, four fat oxen, eight fat swine, two tons of butter, a suit of clothes and a silver drinking cup. At the Dr. Rafael ...
In October of last year, a guerilla gardener planted 35,000 tulips in Melbourne’s most famous graffiti-covered laneway, Hosier Lane. That gardener was Joost Bakker, a sustainable designer and ...
When you're planting tulip bulbs this autumn, think location and good drainage to ensure that your tulips return for more than one season with blooms. A sunny site is ideal, as tulips flower best ...
Sunny and sweet: A ‘Tulip Garden Experience' is ready to bloom in Moorpark The Underwood Family Farms offering will stay abloom until the flowers have finished popping.
Early one Friday morning last October, a surprise garden of 35,000 tulips appeared in Melbourne’s iconic Hosier Lane. The unsaleable flowers were spared from the compost bin by passers-by, who were ...