The Wonderful Colors of the Tulip There are many beautiful flowers in the world, but few have ever competed with the abundance and pure beauty that the tulip represents. This gorgeous and colorful flower has many festivals in its honor held around the world, because it can be grown in so many bright colors, it makes for beautiful celebrations. With tulip season coming soon, we have some truly breathtaking photos to share with you, with some tulip facts as well! [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> Colorful fields of tulips as far as the eye can see. These were shot in British Columbia, Canada. Many places around the world see Tulip Festivals in their region, and these fragrant and beautiful flowers used to be so popular that a phrase was coined: "*Tulip Mania*". [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> The 'wooden shoes tulip festival' held in Oregon. In 17th century Holland, tulips were so important that you could measure someone's social status by the exotic tulips they cultivated. At the peak of this 'tulip mania', individual exotic tulips would be sold for more than ten times the annual salary of a skilled worker. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> Keukenhof, Lisse, The Netherlands. A common sight in Dutch parks during tulip season. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> Woodburn Tulip Festival in Oregon. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> The photographer who took this photo won the Picsean World Photo contest. We're not surprised, the colors here are breath-taking. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> Every year, in the spring, The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival sees hundreds of thousands of visitors come to enjoy the endless colors of the newly blossomed tulips. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> A colorful sunset. Tulips come in many hues and colors, but there's one they don't come in: Pure blue. The closest are the violet colored tulips. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> You'd think this was shot in Holland, but this is Oregon again. Many believe that Holland is where tulips originated, but in reality, they were first cultivated by the Ottoman Empire (Turkish empire) more than 500 years ago. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> The Skagit Valley Tulip fields on a cloudy afternoon. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> In Persia, to give a red tulip was to declare your love. The black center of the red tulip was said to represent the lover’s heart, burned to a coal by love’s passion. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> Under the orange heads of the tulips. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> The Keukenhof garden in Holland is home to no less than 7 million flowers, an incredible achievement. - Advertisement -
[image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> Tulips make every photo look color enhanced, as if they were more colorful than real life. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> A typical sight at Dutch tulip color fields. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> For over half a century, Keukenhof has been the largest flower garden in the world. We cannot imagine how beautiful it must be to walk there and enjoy the heavily perfumed air. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> Red tulips, not unlike roses, are a sign of love. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> A great place to play hide and seek, just be careful not to damage the precious flowers. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> Purple and red, green and pink. A celebration of colors. Not all tulips are fragrant, but all of them can be eaten, and indeed during WWII and the 1944 Dutch famine, people survived by eating tulips and sugar beets. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> Again, this is not Holland, but actually Sakura City in Japan. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> The 'serpent garden' in Japan. * [image: tulip photos]* Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> At one point, the tulip was the most expensive flower in the world. At one point during the height of Europe’s tulip mania, a single Viceroy tulip bulb was purchased for two lasts of wheat, four lasts of rye, four fat oxen, eight fat swine, 12 fat sheep, two hogsheads of wine, four casks of beer, two tons of butter, a complete bed, a suit of clothes and a silver drinking cup! [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> A pink dreamscape in Southern Netherlands. Pink tulips are a sign of caring and strong attachment. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> White tulips are usually associated with purity and innocence, while cream colored symbolize commitment. Yellow tulips used to represent hopeless love, but now are a more positive symbol of sunshine and brightness. Purple tulips are a sign of royalty and rebirth. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> Dull sky, colorful earth. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> A white peacock among orange tulips at Keukenhof. An amazing photo. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> The Canadian Tulip Festival, which claims to be the world’s largest tulip festival, is a major event held annually each May in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. During World War II, the Dutch Royal Family took refuge in Canada. Princess Margriet of the Netherlands was born at Ottawa Civic Hospital in 1943, and the Canadian government declared the land to be extraterritorial. This was done to ensure that the princess would have Dutch citizenship. Every year since, Queen Juliana and the royal family after her death have sent tulip bulbs for the festival. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> Gorgeous white and red tulips. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> An ocean of red. Red tulips at Fraser Valley. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> White tipped purple tulips in New York City. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> A rainbow over tulip fields, British Columbia, Canada. [image: tulip photos] Like <http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=17833#like> A fantastic sunrise over the tulips at Woodburn. __._,_.___ ------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
