It must be the ‘fresher’ air down here in the south. The array of tulips is vast in colours and size. Very diverse from our northern tropical flowers. Tulips actually originated centuries ago in Turkey and Persia. It wasn’t until the 17th century that ‘tulip mania’ hit the Netherlands, and the flower grew immensely in its popularity. Europeans named them tulips which happen to be the Persian word for turban. It was thought as part of Persian culture and arts they wore the flowers in their turbans at the time.
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