• This and that about flower bulbs
• Transporting flower bulbs
• The history of the bulb
  • Tulips from Turkey
  • A precious little present
  • The bulb trade
  • The wild speculation in tulip bulbs
  • Expensive and unique
  • Lilies conquer the world
• Growth and Flowering
• Flower bulb project
• Fun with bulbs
• Classroom/house decorating
• Decorate your playground

The bulb trade

Later, Carolus Clusius travelled to our country, where he became a professor at the University of Leiden and also the head of the university’s botanical garden. He took his tulips with him, of course, and conducted all kinds of tests on them. Yet as beautiful and rare as they were, he never sold them. But something happened one night: a number of his most beautiful tulip bulbs were stolen from the garden. And it was these stolen bulbs from Turkey that launched the bulb trade in the Netherlands!