The history of the Tulip

The first sayings about the Tulip are coming from ancient Persia. In Persian the meaning of flower is Tulip. Since then it’s the most wanted name for a woman in Iran.  For example, the most beautiful street in modern Teheran is named ‘Tulip zar’.

At first, the Persians the tulip was the symbol of love and perfect love. For my  great surprise another country, but not Holland, adore this flower – Turkey. Each year there was a celebration named for this flower and this was done because of the great respect to the Sultan and all his wives.

In 1544 the Tulip appeared in Europe thanks to the Germany ambassador, who brought the flower from his visit in Turkey. Afterwards, the tulip became very popular and even some of the tradesman from Venice began to import more and more bulbs from Turkey. Among the most ranked addicts of the tulip were the Austrian Emperor - Franz the second, the French king Ludovick XVIII, Volter and Cardinal Reshelo.  

But in Holland the enthusiasm concerning the tulip easily became so passionate that thousands of gardeners founds new colours of the tulip, new sorts, etc.. More of the founded variety were named after famous people and cities. For instance, when one bulb of the sort ‘Senper Augustus’ was sold for a price of 13 000 guldens, which for the time people were living in was a whole fortune. Up to now there are about 4000 varieties found for this special and beautiful flower. The varieties differ from 20 to 70 cm at height and they usually come out from March to May.