Don's View

Tulips were growing in Turkey around AD 1000, nearly 600 years before they appeared in the Netherlands where they became so popular that a tulip "futures" market developed as money was exchanged on the outcome of planted bulbs developing into blossoms. One transaction included cattle and several tons of commodity plus cash for a single blossom.

If you enjoy tulips and are very fortunate, you can visit the Keukenhof Gardens near Amsterdam in April when millions and millions of tulip and crocus bulbs are in bloom.

Labels: flowers, tulips