ABOUT TULIP FLOWERS
TULIPS
Giving
Getting
Growing
Meaning, Symbolism & History
Tulips, Easily Recognized, Most Loved Flower
For Art, Culture, Happiness, Love and Friendship
Bright, Rich, Colorful Tulips
A "Baslee Troutman" Giclee Fine Art Print
"Sunlit Tulip Family" Red Tulips
From the "Day Star Garden" Art Series Collection
We are drawn to Big, Colorful Tulips
SKY and HEAVENS
We are drawn to Tulips because they are easy to recognize by their shape and always have such striking colors. When given as gifts, they are not too soft, or too bold, not too elegant or romantic, but loving and friendly. They are not too big or small, they are always the perfect size. They make you feel hugged, happy, cozy and comfortable, just as we all want to be.
The tulip originated over ten decades ago in Persia and Turkey. As Europeans started taking an interest in the flower, they gained in popularity, especially in the Netherlands.
Cultivated varieties include the Dutch Tulip, even though they are grown throughout the world.
TULIP MANIA
A 17th century phenomenon, named the ‘Tulip Mania,’ happened when the flower bulbs became so sought after and highly prized that prices for them went astronomically high. The demand was so great that prices soared and soared and then crashed very hard.
The history of tulips is as full of stories and as colorful as the flowers. In the 1600’s, tulips were enjoyed by only the very wealthy. They were rare and were status symbols for the European aristocrats. When the buying mania exploded, a single tulip bulb could fetched a $2,250 in U.S. dollars. The mania reached its highest amounts between 1634 to 1637, and we duly named it "Tulipomania." This tulip mania is compared to the stock market craze of the 1920’s. Tulips do have a stately appearance, but today they are owned by the masses and have become one of the most popular spring flowers.
NOT ORIGINALLY FROM HOLLAND
Tulips are from Central Asia. Daffodils are from Spain and Portugal. Holland does a lot of work on bulb flowers, developing them, producing them and exporting them. Many people travel to see the bulb fields and gardens. But Tulips are native to other far-away places. Bulbs did not naturally come from Holland. Dahlias are from Mexico. South American is the native home of Amarylis. South Africa for Freesias and Callases. Lilies are from China, Japan and North America.
Original, natural, wild Tulips look nothing close to the ones developed, sold and grown today. There are so many different types and kinds available today and these Tulip flowers receive all the attention. It’s difficult to find the wild, native forms of the Tulip flower.
HOW MANY Tulip BULBS?
(Nymphaea odorata)
Over nine billion flower bulbs a year are produced in Holland’s hybridization production fields today. Science and beauty and some smart marketing have caused the explosion of the need and desire to own bulb flowers. If you are able to make a trip to Holland, you can visit the 70-acre famous Keukenhof garden in Lisse. It is open every year to visitors during the spring bulb bloom. Millions of people flock there to see millions of bulbs in bloom. There are sculptures, lakes and winding pathways. It is the largest garden in the world, Holland.
TULIP COLORS – MEANING
Tulips overall represent perfect love but different colors of tulip flowers take on different meanings and significance. Red Tulips are seen as true love, not just romantic but any type of love. Purple symbolizes royalty, elegance, richness, deepness. Yellow Tulips have taken on a modern theme of friendship, happiness, cheerfulness and sunshine. White Tulips are used to get a person’s attention, ask for forgiveness or mercy, or to be thought of in a kind way.
There are many variant colors that are mixed together, striped, edged or blended. Tulip colors are rich and deep but seem to glow in the light, making parts of them bright, with the light reflecting through. This gives them both a strong and a soft, warm look, all at the same time.
A "Baslee Troutman" Giclee Fine Art Print
"Close Your Eyes & Believe" Blue Irises
From the "Day Star Garden" Art Series Collection
Giving Tulips as Gifts
Giving Tulip flowers are a great choice for many occasions. Birthdays, anniversaries, new babies, celebrations, thinking of you, thank you, miss you, welcome, congratulations, corporate & office settings, sympathy, get well, Motivation, good job, new account, good customer, appreciation, open houses and Mother’s Day are excellent occasions to give the gift everyone enjoys.
Tulip Bouquets, Tulip flower art prints or a gardening basket filled with Tulip or Iris bulbs to plant in the fall will pleasantly surprise the recipient. Tulip flowers are so universal for invoking feelings of well-being, happiness, friendship and cheerfulness. They open the way for happy, pleasant feelings and emotions that make one feel welcomed, that they are thought about and cared for along with feeling that they belong. Giving Tulips helps us express the positive side of life and leaves a meaningful impression.
TULIPS are POPULAR & LOVED
Their popularity will always endure. They represent so much of what we are and what we want to express and feel. When given to others you can use them in many occasions, in a bouquet or alone in a vase. They are stunningly gorgeous grouped together in garden or seen growing in large meadows or fields, reaching up to the blue sky, waving in the breeze. Once you start growing the Tulip bulbs in your garden, it will become a favorite, one you look forward to seeing return each year. They are flowers that you get attached to, and truly make you think about what a ‘wonderful’ world we live in because of their simple beauty.
TULIPS from Holland
Holland is world renowned for their colorful tulips. If you asked anyone, anywhere, where Tulips came from, they would say Holland and that they were Dutch Tulips. You will picture windmills and wooden shoes together in scene with the tulips. Many of Holland's flower farms grow Tulips.
Tulip Art
Artist Baslee Troutman, in the "Day Star Garden" art print collection, has several contemporary, modern decorative giclee art prints of Tulip, Iris, Water Lily Lotus flowers available in many sizes of paper and canvas, that display the vibrant and amazingly vivid colors of the flowers in full bloom against a beautiful blue sky. Capturing all the vibrant colors and fine details. The flowers in these wall art prints seem to reach out to you from the fresh, original, sunny garden settings and eye-catching patterns and designs.
You can easily select and quickly order original, custom Fine Art Giclee Prints, Canvas Art Prints, Framed Art with custom picture framing and matting. Proudly display, show or give as gifts. Gallery quality original giclee art prints that will complement your home, business or corporate décor. These fresh, real and unique Tulip and Iris art prints offer garden enthusiasts, nature, flower and Tulip lovers lifetime memorable art in a contemporary, modern style. Each one has vibrant rich colors, fine details and tells a story that unfolds as you, the viewer, travel there and imagine what will happen next.. Tulip, Iris, Rose and Orchid art prints, flower bouquets, flower bulbs, gifts can be found by visiting the links under Friendly Professional or going to the Baslee Troutman website.
Choose Your Tulips
Tulips come in different classes that are have a variety of heights and bloom times. We often think of tulips as tulips but there are many varieties available.
Tulips come in different classes that are have a variety of heights and bloom times. We often think of tulips as tulips but there are many varieties available.
Perfect Cut Flowers - Darwin tulips
Darwin Tulips are hybrids that are large and have bright flowers with long stems. Perfect for cut flowers. Stems are pretty strong but they can topple over from strong winds because of their height. They bloom in mid-spring.
Species Tulips, Low growing and tough
You can place Species tulips in beds with other plants like perennials or around trees and bushes. They are low growing and tough. Partial shade is okay and they grow to 7 to 10 inches in height, flower early in the spring and come in many colors.
Species Tulips, Low growing and tough
Look like peony flowers with their double flower petals. The blooms are huge and heavy and can be affected by wind and rain so you may want to stake the flowers. The huge flowers are worth the effort.
Parrot tulips – Fringed petals
Parrot tulips flowers that are large with petals that are twisted, curled and fringed. They open wide in full sun. They are showy flowers that look good in flower bouquets. Different varieties bloom at different times in the spring
Fosteriana tulips – Early Bloomers
These tulips bloom early and have intense, vivid colors. They also open wide in the sun. These Tulip flowers are originally from Central Asian in the mountain areas.
A "Baslee Troutman" Giclee Fine Art Print
"Bearded Irises Along the Ladybug Path"
From the "Day Star Garden" Art Series Collection
Holland The Netherlands
The Netherlands (Holland) is one of the smallest countries in the world. They have over 6 million people living there. Holland is located in Western Europe, between Germany, Belgium and at the other side of the North Sea, lies England. The Netherland’s capital is Amsterdam.
Commercial flower bulb cultivation started in and around Haarlem about 400 years ago. Then it spread to the north and south. The area between Haarlem and Leiden is know as the ‘bulb district.’ Many resident, for many years, made most of their money from flower bulbs industries
How Tulip growing started in Holland
At the end of the 16th century, Tulip flowers were introduced into the Netherlands by Carolus Clusius. Everyone took an interest in the beautiful flowers and bulb and started experimenting with them in many gardens. The demand grew. It was found that coastal areas had perfect conditions for growing tulips, with its mild winters and cool summers plus great soil, consistently wet but great water drainage. The Netherlands had a center of trade and help with the exportation of the bulbs.
GROWING TULIPS
Encouraging Tulips To Repeat Bloom
Daffodils return year after year, dependably. They are repeater that give you more and more blooms as they spread. Tulips are easy to grow in the garden and the first year they spring up looking big, colorful and lovely. But they can have problems in years after their first bloom. It is a perennial flower but sometimes we have to treat it like an annual, that needs to be replanted each fall to bloom in the spring. Since it is a perennial, it should bloom each year. The problem is that our western weather is not the same as where the bulbs originated from, some 400 years ago, in Turkey. Where the winters are cold and the summers hot and dry.
The Dutch have sandy soil but it’s wet there year around. They have a proven technological way to replicate the growing conditions that are needed to encourage growth and replicate each year. We cannot duplicate their precise growing conditions and treatments. So they have millions of bulbs, and supply us with new ones each year.
Tips & Guidelines for getting Top Performance for your
Home grown Tulips
Plant bulbs in a well-drained area. This is always good advice for planting bulbs, and is essential to have perennial repeat blooming. Overly wet soil causes the presence of fungus and disease or it can rot the bulbs. You can add organic matter to help facilitate drainage.
Plant tulip bulbs six to eight inches deep. Always water the tulip bulbs sufficiently but without standing water, after planting to get them started. This will help it develop a strong root system in the fall before going dormant in the winter.
Once they have bloomed in the spring, after the tulip blossoms have wilted, trip off the flower heads and let the green leaves & stem foliage to die back. This way the plant will continue to grow strong roots, so it can be healthy next blooming season. This will the bulb be perennial.
Fertilize is important. Fertilize the bulbs in the fall and spring. Unless, you treat the bulbs like annuals, then it is not necessary to fertilize them. Use a low nitrogen fertilizer or special bulb fertilizer.
Plant your bulbs in the fall. Space them 4 inches apart.
If you plant a tulip seed instead of a bulb it will not bloom for 5-7 years.
Varieties of Tulips
Colors, sizes, types. There are many. Overall there are about 1,700 varieties of tulips, with about 80 percent of them come from the Netherlands where the growing conditions are optimal.
It takes about 5 years to develop a tulip bulb. Horticulturists harvest the seeds one year and place them in a special room. They then remain outside for another year. The next three years it is in the field waiting for a bulb to develop. To create a new species it would take about 20 years. What you do now will not show results for years.
It takes about 5 years to develop a tulip bulb. Horticulturists harvest the seeds one year and place them in a special room. They then remain outside for another year. The next three years it is in the field waiting for a bulb to develop. To create a new species it would take about 20 years. What you do now will not show results for years.
Perennial tulips should come back year after year, unlike many of the hybrids.
WHAT ARE TULIPS?
Tulip is a genus that has some 100 species of flowering plants in the botanical family Liliaceae. The cultivated varieties are associated with Holland, but tulips are also native to southern Europe, north Africa and Asia. The tulip is the national flower of Iran and Turkey.
Tulips are perennial bulbous plants. We recognize them quickly. They have six petals which are called ‘tepals.’
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Lilliopsida
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Genus: Tulipa
FRESH CUT TULIP BOUQUETS & ARRANGEMENTS
Cut the stems diagonally. Put in vase with fresh water and plant food. Re-cut the stem diagonally and replace with fresh water daily. Keep out of direct sunlight. Tulips should last 7 to 10 days cut and placed in a vase.
Growing Tulips in Containers
Alert – If you are going to grow the tulips in a container, keep the container out of direct sunlight and warm areas. The soil needs to remain cool or the plant will think it is spring. This will cause the tulip bulb to grow a stem and try to bloom too early. The root system will not have developed properly at this time.
Growing Tulips in Containers
Alert – If you are going to grow the tulips in a container, keep the container out of direct sunlight and warm areas. The soil needs to remain cool or the plant will think it is spring. This will cause the tulip bulb to grow a stem and try to bloom too early. The root system will not have developed properly at this time.
TULIPS
Giving
Getting
Growing
Flower Colors & Flower Color Meaning
Gorgeous RED TULIPS
Red Flowers bring out the essence of passion, desire, strength and love. The bolder colors of red are the centerpiece of showing deep beauty, boldness, pleasure, desire, vitality, survival and heat. Warmer colors of red or "soft reds" with orange and yellow mixtures will stimulate our senses with many different feelings.
SUNSHINE YELLOWS
Happy
Cheerful
Sunny
Friendship
Yellow flowers are bright, cheerful, lighthearted and joyful. They make you feel like smiling and being happy, joyful, optimistic, out-going and social. Yellow flowers make you feel good, enthusiastic, fun and able to see the humor in life. They bring you friendship, happiness and represent hopeful new beginnings.
PINK Flower Color Meaning
Pink blossoms convey grace, gentleness, warmth, love, joy, innocence, softness, quietness, stillness, comfort and happiness. Any type of pink flower will evoke these feelings of gentle warmth and softness.
Pink flowers have a more sophisticated look than red, which is more appealing to most adults than straight pure red. Pink being a gentler color is more appropriate for healing. If you’re feeling blue or down, pink can elevate your feeling of well-being by soothing the hard edges of life. It is a comforting color bringing us feelings of love and warmth.
Being a young color, it is a bit flirtatious, bringing us childhood fun and even a little bit of silliness. It allows us to let our guard down and find that inner child that wants to feel safe yet playful.
PURPLE Flowers Represent
Purple flowers are seen as representing royalty, nobility, pride, depth, dignity, accomplishment, admiration, success, wealth and ceremony. Purple is both a bold, rich and vivid color with many different hues and contrasts.
It’s not a loud or obnoxious color, in it’s many different shades but it does quietly and subtly brings feelings of being special, of having class, elegance and dignity.
A RED FLOWER
Red flowers bring out the essence of passion, desire, strength and love. The bolder colors of red are the queen of showing deep beauty, boldness, pleasure, desire, vitality, survival and heat. Red represents strong passion, symbolizing the heart and soul of a person, on display. Our love, passion and commitment can be expressed well here.
Warmer colors of red or ‘soft reds’ with orange and yellows stimulate our senses with many different feelings. Red is also a color of energy and vitality and heightened senses, so it brings with it some seductiveness when expressing the desires of one’s heart.
PRECIOUS WHITE Flowers
White flowers stand for innocence, purity, reverence, humility, simplicity and elegance. They take on a pure, luxurious silky hue. It represent being spiritual, divine, heavenly and having inner significance. Our angels wear white, our brides wear white, the newly baptized wear white, all to show their purity of heart. It is pure and youthful and shows simplicity, goodness, honesty and reverence.
A grown child sending a fully white flower bouquet to their mom, mixed with only greens and a very small touch of another color, is the perfect way to say you’re sorry, or ask for forgiveness, and have her feel the warmth of your love for her as a mother. This works well if you’ve missed her birthday because of your hectic, overly busy schedule and life. Use white in abundance.
A "Baslee Troutman" Giclee Fine Art Print
"Bearded Irises Cheerful" Sunny Day in Garden
From the "Day Star Garden" Art Series Collection
ORANGE Color Meaning
Orange flowers are playful yet proud, confidence, bringing you energy, enthusiasm, satisfaction, passion for life and warmth. Being a secondary color, it’s combination or reds and yellows, portray a vibrancy and subtleness that shows confidence, satisfaction, thoughtfulness, compassion and passion for both love and life. Orange brings you intuition, friendliness, spirit and brings out creativity. It brings people in, it gets their attention.
Orange is a color the brings out being excited, it’s the primary color of warmth and enthusiasm. Orange has to be put together just right, with the right combination of other colors to come across as both strong and subtle. Because orange is used as a warning color outside of flowers, use some caution in clothing or furnishings, so it doesn’t come across as too bold, loud, flamboyant, outrageous or exuberant.
GREEN – the most NATURAL OF ALL COLORS
Green flowers and foliage are one with nature. It makes you feel that all around you is healthy, clean and natural. It creates the common bond between all that is alive and shares this earth together. Green colors represent youth, good fortune, renewal, growth, resilience and optimism.
Representing life and all living things, green is nurturing and supporting. It is a healing and secure color representing wealth, careers, perseverance, patient, learning and being flexible and adaptable. Green, in the United States, is also the color of money so it represents wealth, fortune, prosperity and good luck.
Elegant
Lovely
Soft
Lavender, Lavender, Lavender
Lavender colored flowers brings you a combination of grace, refinement, elegance, with a touch of sacredness. They make you think of soft beauty that is refined and delicate.
Beautiful in
BLACK
for Fullness and Depth
Black is usually not a solid color in flowers but you can find mixtures of it on some. It brings out the vibrancy of other colors. Black is not considered a color because it absorbs all other colors and stores them, thereby not reflecting back any color that the brain can perceive. Black at funerals can be viewed as representing all experiences, fullness of life, a bringing together of everything that has existed. It is respectful and reverent. Black in social setting is a foundation for being complete, accomplished, confident and fulfilled.
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