Tulip Flower
Tulip, this beautiful flower belongs to Liliaceae family, it is largely cultivated in Netherlands, but this lovely flower originally belongs to Arabic part of the Mediterranean and North Africa. It is one of the most popular flowers after rose and chrysanthemum. What make tulip special is its wide variety of colors, height and flower shape which together add immense beauty to it. Presenting tulip is an easy way to express your love, though different color of tulip convey different messages but this flower is perfect for expressing love. It represents imagination, dreaminess and perfect lover.
The word “tulip” is a malformed of Turkish word ‘tulbend’ for turban; it is a bulbous plant with six petals. Tulip has around 100 species it is widely cultivated in central Asia. Turkish people first grew it in 1,000 A.D. from central Asia it moved to Austria and from Venice to other European country and soon it become very popular flower in Europe. The popularity of tulip reaches new height in Holland, planters and cultivators were growing tulip at big scale, a tulip become very popular in Holland and cultivating tulip was named as tulip mania, single bulb was prized to $1,000 to $4,000.
Currently there are 3,000 different varieties of tulip grown all over the world. Holland is one of the largest producers of this flower and every year billions of tulips are exported from Holland to other part of the world. Tulip gesneriana is one of the most popular garden tulips and is planted at large scale. Tulips can be classified into 15 classes on the characteristic of its parentage, time of bloom, and other characteristics. Tulips are usually available from the month of November to May, and life span of a tulip flower is 3 to 7 days. There are three varieties of tulip classified based on its blooming time they are flowering tulip, midseason flowering tulip and late flowering tulips.
If you are planning to grow tulip at your yard all you need is well-drained loamy soil, you have to protect it from rabbits, squirrels and gophers for proper growth. The popularity of tulip plant is growing high all around the world; it is a commercial flower and is widely used in bouquets and floral decorations. Tulips are widely used in decorating wedding venues. It is a national flower of turkey.
In general, tulip symbolizes love charity and dreaminess, but different color of tulip flower denotes different sentiments for instance red giving or receiving red tulip is declaration of love, and if flower is received by right hand, the answer is positive and if by left hand then response is negative. Yellow tulips are usually presented to colleagues, it symbolizes discreet compliment. Yellow tulip symbolizes bright and sunny smile. Whereas variegated tulip express feelings that are more personal and it is not suitable for giving coworker or a person you just happen to know. It conveys a very nice compliment. It is suitable for close and special relations. These are generally priced at around $44.
