Our most popular selling tulips are single tulips, everyone wants to know more about them so we are writing this blog to share some insight about them.

What Are Single Tulips?

Single Tulips are, in a sense, the “most natural” of all the Tulip varieties. In other words: they have been (cross-)bred less than most of the other cultivars. This also means that of all Tulip cultivars, Single Tulips are the best suited for transport. In other words: Single Tulip varieties are the strongest and sturdiest Tulips available for wholesale. You could say that Single Tulips represent the first Dutch Tulips, that paved the way for the Netherlands to become the prime exporter of Tulips. You can still marvel at a large selection of these ancient Tulip varieties at Hortus Bulborum.

History of Tulips

The very first Tulips didn’t originate from the Netherlands, as many people think. Tulips originate from Turkey. The widely accepted theory is that they were introduced in Northwestern Europe by an ambassador for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. This ambassador was fascinated by the flowers that were blooming in “almost midwinter, a season unfriendly to flowers”. After the first Tulips were cultivated in the Netherlands, however, their popularity really began to take off. This went so far that early in the 17th century, better known as our Golden Age – a Tulip mania spread through Holland that ultimately broke the market. Bulbs had become so expensive that they were used as a form of currency of their own. “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” – Rembrandt van Rijn This Tulip mania even led to a certain Claes Pieterszoon – a surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam – to change his name to Nicolaes Tulp. You might have seen him in a famous painting of Rembrandt van Rijn: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. Today, Tulips are still amongst the most popular flowers from the Netherlands. This makes our little country the main producer of commercial Tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually. The majority of those bulbs are exported, making it an economically important product. Because of that, growers have continuously been experimenting and breeding to find new Tulips.

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Where Are Single Tulips Grown?

Many of our Tulips still come from big farms in the Netherlands, France, and Italy. Single Tulips from these countries normally offer the best quality in color, strength, and vase-life. To expand the season in which Tulips are available, they are now also being grown in Chile and New Zealand. Because the seasons in these parts of the world are mirrored to those in Western Europe, this has about doubled the time when Tulips are available. When it’s spring in Holland and Tulips are flooding our fields, it’s fall in New Zealand, which means the growers are preparing their bulbs for winter. Then, fall starts in the Netherlands and the availability of good bulbs is shrinking. This is when bulbs from New Zealand start coming in, transported to the Netherlands to grow in the Dutch greenhouses. The quality is still that of the very resilient Single Tulips, but most of the time it is a little bit less when compared to those from (bulbs from) the Netherlands, France, and Italy.

When Are They In Season?

In this day and age, it’s mostly possible to get Single Tulips throughout the year, thanks to the above-mentioned broadening of growing regions and new ways to preserve bulbs. However, the best months to order high-quality Single Tulips are still from February till May. The product range is broadest in those months, and the tulips are being grown from bulbs that were prepared here. This cuts the need for transportation and extra cooling, which is necessary for the bulbs coming in from overseas.

How Are Single Tulips Grown?

There are three common ways of growing Tulips: Directly in water Using a layer of potting soil In full soil Single Tulips are mainly grown using the former two. Of these, the method of growing Single Tulips in water is the fastest (roughly twenty days) and therefore the cheapest. Growing them on a layer of pot soil results in Tulips that developed a little more slowly, and are therefore stronger and a little more expensive.

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