Tulipmania!
Tulip mania is in full bloom in the Netherlands right now, as shown by these amazing photographs of the bulb fields in bloom. The area is known as Bloembollenstreek, or flower bulb street, a strip of...
View ArticleBotanic Superlatives: The First Nursery Catalog
Disseminated at the height of Europe's seventeenth-century flower frenzy, the first nursery catalog was a masterpiece and a marketing strategy. It was published as a Florilegium (collection of...
View ArticleArt + Botany: The Tulip Vase
The year is 1634, and you live in Holland. If social status is any concern, you're looking to acquire the country's most conspicuous symbol of wealth: a tulip bulb. This is no small thing; during...
View ArticleThe Craft of Interplanting with Jacqueline van der Kloet, Slide Show
Gallery Page Layout: Gallery A Photos of Jacqueline van der Kloet's gardens around the world, showing her artful mix of fall bulbs in bloom in New York, Holland, and at her home. In Magazine Issue:...
View ArticleLinks We Love, Flower Edition: 4/11/12
- Furniture chain store West Elm will be offering pop-up floral stores for three consecutive weekends around the country, starting in late April. They've chosen some of the hippest and most popular...
View ArticleTulpendag! A Day of Free Tulips in Amsterdam
During the 17th-century economic bubble known as "tulip mania," tulips were an unparalleled symbol of luxury, and they fetched a pretty (and speculative) penny. European audiences found the tulip's...
View ArticleArt & Botany: Broken Flowers
A flower's demise is a slow process—unless you're photographer Jon Shireman, in which case it happens with a quick pivot and a smash. He immerses his flowers to stiffen them, then flings them against a...
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