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Facts about Tulips
🌷 1634 to 1637 is known as the “Tulip Mania” period.
🌷 During the “Tulip Mania”, a Tulip was worth more than a precious diamond. Sometimes ten times the annual income of a wealthy skilled worker.
🌷 Netherlands is still the world’s main producer of commercially sold Tulips.
🌷 Tulip petals are edible though the taste is unpleasant.
🌷 Storing Tulips in a very cold place for up to 12 weeks can “force” Tulips to blooming early.
🌷The Dutch Royal Family sent 1,000,000 Tulip bulbs to Ottawa in 1945 to show gratitude for sheltering Princess Juliana and daughters during the Nazi occupation.
🌷The world’s largest tulip festival is celebrated by Canadians in Ottawa. Bed of Tulips are spread from Commissioner’s Park at Dow’s Lake to Parliament Hill… and across the Ottawa River.
Towards heaven...
Facts about Tulips
🌷 1634 to 1637 is known as the “Tulip Mania” period.
🌷 During the “Tulip Mania”, a Tulip was worth more than a precious diamond. Sometimes ten times the annual income of a wealthy skilled worker.
🌷 Netherlands is still the world’s main producer of commercially sold Tulips.
🌷 Tulip petals are edible though the taste is unpleasant.
🌷 Storing Tulips in a very cold place for up to 12 weeks can “force” Tulips to blooming early.
🌷The Dutch Royal Family sent 1,000,000 Tulip bulbs to Ottawa in 1945 to show gratitude for sheltering Princess Juliana and daughters during the Nazi occupation.
🌷The world’s largest tulip festival is celebrated by Canadians in Ottawa. Bed of Tulips are spread from Commissioner’s Park at Dow’s Lake to Parliament Hill… and across the Ottawa River.