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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Tulip


Between 1634 and 1637, in Holland, the early enthusiasm for the new flowers triggered a speculative frenzy now known as the tulip mania. Tulips would become so expensive that they were treated as a form of currency.
The tulip madness drove prices up to exorbitant heights, the bulb was worth its weight in gold.
(from Wikipedia)

Withered tulip flowers 


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11 comments:

  1. illustration poetryMarch 3, 2011 at 10:12 PM

    i think im hallucinating... i see 2 birds...
    (which is magic!!)
    look at the petals!

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  2. LuTiMarch 3, 2011 at 10:15 PM

    you have excellent eyes!

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  3. Red Cat CardsMarch 3, 2011 at 10:35 PM

    aahhh.. hence the tulip festival in Canada... I've always wondered why..

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  4. LuTiMarch 4, 2011 at 8:07 PM

    the tulips are now a bit cheaper, aren't they? :)

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  5. roberto M.March 5, 2011 at 3:13 PM

    Hey. first, thanks for your comment, really nice, and exaggerated.
    I have grown tulips, with relative success. is not an easy flower to grow at home.
    In the south of my country it is easier, and adorn the streets of places like Bariloche (you know?)
    http://www.viajeros.com/fotos/rumbo-al-sur-iv-llao-llao/554499
    I've read that tulips are not native to Holland, they really are from Turkey.
    Good weekend!

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  6. roberto M.March 5, 2011 at 7:35 PM

    Thank you.
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    (I have become exaggerated)

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  7. LuTiMarch 5, 2011 at 7:37 PM

    yes, you are right. Tulips came to Holland somewhere from Turkey or Iran around 1570.

    You are welcome, Mr. Roberto!

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  8. roberto M.March 5, 2011 at 8:08 PM

    Oh, me too, I have my warning but I'm not getting nervous :)

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  9. Vilt og vakkertMarch 5, 2011 at 10:45 PM

    Heisann!

    So beautiful flowers in their last days can be!

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  10. EvaMarch 11, 2011 at 7:22 AM

    Beautiful photos!
    I listened to a radio show about this once. It was called "The first stock market crash in history - 1637 ". I thought it was an April fool's joke. It seems so surreal. This was actually the first kind of stock market, only dealing with tulips! Strange how they are such 'normal' flowers to us now.

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  11. LuTiMarch 11, 2011 at 7:22 PM

    Thank you, Eva! Yes, it is hardly to believe people paid for tulips such high price, just a question of supply and demand...

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