Tulip flowers

Tulip family

Tulips in Latin are called "Tulipa" and they belong in the lily family. Lilies in Latin are "Liliaceae". (see picture of lily flower on the right: yes, it is a lily, but if you don't look carefully, you could think it is a tulip flower...)

Tulips are bulbous plants, that's why the title of this site is Tulip Bulb. You normally buy the tulip bulbs, and if you are in a 4 season climate: you plant the tulip bulbs in your garden before winter, and you will have tulip flowers in April.

Tulip flowers are large, showy flowers with six petals. There are around 100 tulip species, a tulip species is a tulip with a different first name, like my first name is different than my sisters', yet we are all from the same family.

Tulip flowers worldwide

Tulip flowers can be found in southern Europe, north Africa, and Asia; from Anatolia and Iran east as far as northeast China and Japan.

The centre of diversity of the tulip genus is in the Pamir and Hindu Kush mountains and the steppes of Kazakhstan. (see picture of a wild tulip from Kazakhstan on the right)

Tulip Bouquet

Well, when my sister married her hubby from the Netherlands, the tables were full with tulip wedding bouquets... For me who normally loves flowers with perfume, I was nicely surprised that I also fell in love on the spot with tulips...

Must have been the lovely-dovely ambiance around the tulips from my sister and her husband from Holland :-)

Tulip Bulb

My first tulip bulb post :-)

Ever since my sister married a Holland guy, he keeps on bringing back tulips from the Netherlands... well, he brings them in as tulip bulbs and then... they shoot out of the tulip bulb and mostly produce a tiny tulip flower.

Yet I became to love tulip flowers and now we have even a Tulip Flower association here in my own hometown Taiping.

My dream? To see the real tulips from Amsterdam and visit the Holland tulip festival.