Tulips

The tulip is well known around the world. Its a great export product for the Dutch growers. Tulips are beautifull to see and if you see them grow in the snow, early in the spring, it gives you the feeling that the summer is coming. Did you know that there are over 100.000 different species of the tulip!!!

Tulip (Tulipa) is a genus of monocotyledonous plants of the lily family (Liliaceae). Tulips were introduced in the western world by the Viennese ambassador to Turkey, the Ghislain de Busbecq, which he wrote about the flowers in 1551 in the Turkish Edirne had seen. Later he sent some seeds to Austria. The arrival of a cargo tulip bulbs in 1562 in Antwerp marked the beginning of the European tulip cultivation. The first documented examples were by Carolus Clusius planted by him from 1593 led Hortus botanist of leiden. The bostulp (Tulipa Sylvestris) is the only species in the Netherlands in the wild andhas become established since the 19th century

Cultivated Tulips

Tulips can not be grown in warm climates becouse they have a cold night and a cold winter need to grow.
Tulip bulbs are usually planted in october and november. The flowering period is from april to june. Besides the cultivated tulip know all the botanic tulip, wich is particularly suitable for the garden, because the bulbs in the ground can sit there and come back the following year.
The breeding of new bulbs is done by the fall(october and november) to plant tulip bulbs. The buttons between the bolrokken of these bulbs grow into new bulbs with the old bulb is used as food. The button next to the growing point is, the 'A'button, grows into a large ball that sell for flower production, or directly to consumers. The planted bulb contains the 'A'button, between his bolrokken more small growth buds, called B, C and E buds that develop into small balls (klisters).

The klisters sit at the big ball solid, and in the summer during peeling (the roots and remove old skin of the sphere) of the large ball picked. In the following autumn they again planted on the land, to grow into large sphere. In this way one loves a party tulips in position: the large spheres are used for flower production or sold directly to consumers and small bulbs are planted in the autumn. Over 75% of the cultivated tulip flower is intended for production at home or abroad. The rest is as bulb sold to the consumer or end up in parks and public garden.

The tulip has many random mutations that give new colors and variations. These mutaded tulips were once very valuable,because they have a new line for farming made possible with interesting new colors. They can also create new colors by tulips cross. They bring the pollen from one to another tulip pistil.
Some tulips ofa particular cultivar are striped or mottled in color. These effects caused by a viral infection of the bulb, and will not be transferred to a new generation that is raised from seed.

Tulip mania

In the 17th century (1630- circa 1637) arose in the Republic of the seven United Netherlands around the tulip a bizarre tulip mania, also called "tulip craze", tulip craze, tulip mania or bulb craze called were suddenly tulip speculative commodity. The craze was late 1636, early 1637 at its peak. In february 1637 the "globes market"as suddenly as they had arisen, many bulbs speculators were left destitute. Tulips were cultivated in all colors and art by painters such as Nicolaes van Verendael on still lifes depicted. Often there were lines on the flower not genetically determined but the results of a viral infection.

In this period are many tulips drawings.

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