In February that year, bulb wholesalers gathered in Haarlem, a day's walk west of Amsterdam, to find that nobody wished to buy. Within a few days, Dutch tulip prices had fallen tenfold.

This spring, I took a trip to The Netherlands to see one of the greatest displays of tulips - Keukenhof's tulip festival. Tulips have always topped the list of my favorite spring bulbs and seeing ...

In the 17th Century the Dutch went mad trading tulip bulbs in the hope they could make a massive profit. But was Tulip Mania - a parable of greed compared to the recent heavy investment in the ...

aka Farmer John, plants about 100,000 tulip bulbs each season, and this year has more than 65 varieties, according to a post on the business’s Facebook page. Dutch Hollow Farms is open every day ...

Every year, when tulips reach their peak blooms, farmers in the Netherlands remove their colorful heads. Doing so diverts the flowers' energy back to the bulbs to help keep them strong for the ...