It's as lovely as it sounds: learn how to plant tulip bulbs in pots or the ground and you'll be rewarded with a flurry of blooms in the spring. But to really nail the look, you'll need to choose ...

“When you’re buying your tulip bulbs, make sure they are firm,” Ivanov says. “When you touch them, there should be no signs ...

In February that year, bulb wholesalers gathered in Haarlem, a day's walk west of Amsterdam, to find that nobody wished to buy. Within a few days, Dutch tulip prices had fallen tenfold.

Four-hundred guilders might not buy a house ... But that doesn't mean the bursting of the tulip bubble didn't cause some issues. "Bulbs stay in the ground for almost the entire year and so ...

Every year I think about planting tulip and daffodil bulbs. Some years, I remember to buy the bulbs, most years I don’t. And only twice have the bulbs I miraculously remembered to buy and plant ...