Tulip mania was irrational, the story goes. Tulip mania was a frenzy. Everyone in the Netherlands was involved, from chimney-sweeps to aristocrats. The same tulip bulb, or rather tulip future, was ...

The tale of the Dutch tulip craze is a cautionary one – the first example of an economic bubble. As a new exhibition of flower paintings opens in London, Alastair Sooke looks back.

The intense focus on passive versus active is setting investors up for another "tulip bulb" market mania event that could destroy more investor wealth and capital than the Financial Crisis.To keep ...

A member of the lily family, tulips (Tulipa) originated in southern Europe to central Asia, but rose to legendary popularity thanks to the tulip mania that occurred in 17th century Netherlands.

The Dutch tulip bulb market bubble is seen as the first financial bubble. It occurred in Holland in the early 1600s, when speculation inflated tulip bulbs’ value.

This gave rise to “Tulip Mania.” But today, tulips don’t hail from just one seller. In fact, anyone anywhere can grow tulips. ... How to plant tulip bulbs. Step 1: Prepare the soil ...

In February 1637, at the peak of tulip mania, a single bulb of the red-and-white-striped Semper Augustus was valued at 10,000 guilders. It was the equivalent of more than 30 years’ wages for the ...

A two week-long event celebrating a spring flower is taking place at a historic estate. The National Trust's Dyrham Park near Bath, Somerset, has launched its annual "Tulip Mania", which sees more ...

That’s when you’ll find packs of bulbs at the store, and most of those come from the Netherlands — the world’s largest tulip bulb exporter. But tulips themselves are not native to Europe. 3.