During tulip season, everyone should gift someone (or themselves) a bouquet of these favorite flowers, especially since each ...

Slip on your wooden shoes and start tilting at windmills because April is the month for tulips and this week I am honored to be in the land of Windmills, wooden shoes and tulips. Acres and acres of ...

After a sunny week that brought out some color in the tulip fields, the official start of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival on Saturday is expected to be met with rain. Although Mother Nature may not ...

At the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, you are undoubtedly looking for those "popping" pinks and "ravishing" reds. For one farmer, who has his hands deep in the soil to plant those tulip bulbs, he is ...

Would you rather spend your money buying a house or one tulip bulb? The question sounds ridiculous, but during the historic Netherlands tulip craze of the 1630s, a single tulip bulb could sell for the ...

AS TULIPS COME into their fringed and blowsy glory, it’s easy to understand why they intoxicated the 17th-century Dutch into a frenzy of speculation. Tulips were a sign of wealth and status, and a ...

It's still too early to plant bulbs; but it's not too early to think about what bulbs to plant for next spring. Nothing says spring like tulips; it's no wonder that the National Garden Bureau made ...

Those long-stemmed tulips with the flame-shaped streaks you see blooming this time of year are modern versions of Rembrandt tulips, named after the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn, whose 400th ...

Tulips are still planted pretty much as they have always been, in blocks of single colors. There is nothing wrong with that approach, but today there is a new and much more interesting alternative: ...

It just happened to be a sunny, spring, weekday morning as we turned off the I-5 freeway in a rural valley outside of Mt. Vernon, Washington, a couple hours north of Seattle, and made our way along a ...