History of Tulips in the Netherlands

Hey dear community, first of all I would like to welcome you all to my contribution and hope you had a day that has brought numerous interesting experiences into your life! In this post, I would like to talk a little about an enchanting flower and hope you are able to expand your knowledge.

You can see here pictures of enchanting orange tulips that I shot earlier and fittingly I would like to point out what an importance tulips have in the history of the Netherlands and matching the color orange tulips are particularly strongly associated with the house of Orange-Nassau. Tulips are an important national flower in the Netherlands and large fields full of tulips decorate the landscape there and from the end of March the season begins there and when exactly the first specimens can be seen depends of course on the weather and the tulip fields of Holland are known worldwide and attract thousands of tourists every year. Most fields can be found in the northern part of the Netherlands and typical for this landscape are that there are almost no mountains and between the fields you can typically see numerous water channels or windmills. The tulip has its origin in Asia and it is believed that it comes from the territory of today's Turkey and the first bulbs came during the 16th century over England to the Netherlands and it was the doctor and botanist Carolus Clusius (1526 - 1608) who addressed the topic with a great passion and had decided to plant the first bulbs. It didn't take long for tulips to become more and more popular and cultivated in many areas and the most important time came in the 17th century where trade flourished more and more and tulips became one of the most important export products of the Netherlands. The most important countries with which trade was carried out at that time were France, Great Britain, Germany and even Africa and this was also the time of the golden age in which the Netherlands was one of the most important powers on the seas and had numerous trade routes. During the time of the Thirty Years' War, the Dutch were particularly enthusiastic about tulips and it came to the fact that the demand was so high that the prices exploded and at some times were even higher than gold and it became an increasingly important investment object and it even happened that the market has collapsed. During this time, many interested parties were attracted and some even bought cheap sick plants, healed them in order to be able to charge higher prices and the trade of other plants has moved strongly into the background and the people could often even pay with tulips. To this day, Holland is known for the tulips and numerous painters of the Dutch school have also set the plant as a motif and festivities are often celebrated in honor of tulips.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you could learn something new about nature! I captured these pictures with my Camera Sony Alpha 6000 plus 55-210 mm lens!