People who got into the trade early, likely did get rich. “Tulip-mania” was short-lived. As risky speculation was met with reality, the tulip was not a strong or lasting currency. When the ...

Although the expression “tulip mania” could be easily applicable to the current world-craze for tulips, it refers, in fact, to that period in Dutch history around 1634 when the value of the ...

for the start of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s third annual Tulip Mania. . According to marketing specialist Meghan Connolly, the bulbs are bought in late summer and fall from Holland.

The Massachusetts Horticultural Society will host its third annual Tulip Mania event at the Garden at Elm Bank. The event, which features more than 75,000 tulips for picking, starts April 18.

as most people know it: “Back in the 1600’s, the Dutch got speculations fever—to the point where you could buy a beautiful house by the canal in Amsterdam for the price of one bulb.

Tulip Mania has returned to Elm Bank in Wednesday. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s (MHS) third annual Tulip Mania will officially open on Wednesday, April 23, at the Garden at Elm Bank.

Let’s consider the Dutch Tulip Mania in the 1630s. The flower was seen as a status symbol, prized for its unique patterns and colors. This led to wild speculation that saw ordinary people ...

The flower was domesticated by the Ottomans, who planted vast numbers of bulbs in their palace gardens and were as fascinated by rare and exotic tulips as the Dutch at the height of tulip mania.

According to some reports, the Netherlands experienced a “Tulip Mania,” where a single tulip bulb was sold for the price of a house! Today tulips are a lot cheaper, and are the national symbol ...

A cash crop colors vast fields, reflecting a “mania” that once gripped the 17th century Netherlands and now, in a gentler hold, the work team at Waterdrinker Farm. The annual Tulip Festival ...