In the Amsterdam of the early 17th century. Century a Tulip bulb was more valuable than a diamond. Justin Chadwick has made a feature film, which deals with the love and the flower.
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
The main role in a love story
In the movie “Tulip fever” is the whole hope of a desperate love couple on the Tulip. In the 17th century. Century was booming in the Netherlands, the business with valuable flower bulbs, and some went on to rich and others dirt poor. Sophie and Jan want to save your love is a risky business. At the time, the noblest flower of all is, even today, extremely popular.
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
How the Tulip came allegedly to Holland
Many tell stories, such as the Tulip, from distant Persia to Europe. The most beautiful is the: A Dutch cloth merchant, was found after a trip in between his bale of Cloth, onions, a couple of ugly brown flowers. He threw it carelessly on the pile of manure. A few weeks later, the manure pile into a hill full of exotic flowers transformed…
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
How the Tulip came to Holland
You took a few detours, until it was planted for the first Time in Dutch soil. The Ambassador of the Austrian Emperor at the court of the Turkish Sultan and tulips friend Suleiman described the flower in his letters, and brought them finally to Vienna. The local Hofbotaniker took a chair at the University in the Dutch city of Leiden and started breeding.
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
Keukenhof gardens from above
The largest and most famous Tulip farm is located in Lisse, about 20 kilometers away from Amsterdam. The Keukenhof attracts about a Million visitors from all over the world to its vast Tulip fields, the lights from the end of March until the end of may in all the colors. About seven million flowers are here, divided into more than 800 different varieties.
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
Srinagar: Asia’s largest Tulip garden
What is the Keukenhof, the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden in Indian Kashmir. More than a Million tulips are here. The story: The ruler of the Indian Mughal Empire that extended over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, were fascinated by the tulips so that you you in 16. Century cultivated, and everywhere in the Land of tulips gardens put on.
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
Frayed
For many centuries, the Tulip is operated breeding in the Netherlands until today. The frayed Tulip shape on the photo is called “Crispa” and the coincidence is the product of a cross. At a crossroads a little pollen is applied to the stigma of another variety. Then the seed is removed. With luck, an onion – and then a new Tulip variety.
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
Snow tulips
Hardly is disposed of in January, the Christmas tree, the first Tulips bouquet in the Vase. The cut flowers are there long before flowering time in April and may, you will be pulled in the greenhouse directly from the onions. When the tulips get to the fields in April snow showers, not harm you – on the contrary, The snow protects the flowers from Frost.
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
The main role in a love story
In the movie “Tulip fever” is the whole hope of a desperate love couple on the Tulip. In the 17th century. Century was booming in the Netherlands, the business with valuable flower bulbs, and some went on to rich and others dirt poor. Sophie and Jan want to save your love is a risky business. At the time, the noblest flower of all is, even today, extremely popular.
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
How the Tulip came allegedly to Holland
Many tell stories, such as the Tulip, from distant Persia to Europe. The most beautiful is the: A Dutch cloth merchant, was found after a trip in between his bale of Cloth, onions, a couple of ugly brown flowers. He threw it carelessly on the pile of manure. A few weeks later, the manure pile into a hill full of exotic flowers transformed…
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
How the Tulip came to Holland
You took a few detours, until it was planted for the first Time in Dutch soil. The Ambassador of the Austrian Emperor at the court of the Turkish Sultan and tulips friend Suleiman described the flower in his letters, and brought them finally to Vienna. The local Hofbotaniker took a chair at the University in the Dutch city of Leiden and started breeding.
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
Keukenhof gardens from above
The largest and most famous Tulip farm is located in Lisse, about 20 kilometers away from Amsterdam. The Keukenhof attracts about a Million visitors from all over the world to its vast Tulip fields, the lights from the end of March until the end of may in all the colors. About seven million flowers are here, divided into more than 800 different varieties.
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
Srinagar: Asia’s largest Tulip garden
What is the Keukenhof, the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden in Indian Kashmir. More than a Million tulips are here. The story: The ruler of the Indian Mughal Empire that extended over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, were fascinated by the tulips so that you you in 16. Century cultivated, and everywhere in the Land of tulips gardens put on.
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
Frayed
For many centuries, the Tulip is operated breeding in the Netherlands until today. The frayed Tulip shape on the photo is called “Crispa” and the coincidence is the product of a cross. At a crossroads a little pollen is applied to the stigma of another variety. Then the seed is removed. With luck, an onion – and then a new Tulip variety.
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Tulips – the colorful splendor of the Orient
Snow tulips
Hardly is disposed of in January, the Christmas tree, the first Tulips bouquet in the Vase. The cut flowers are there long before flowering time in April and may, you will be pulled in the greenhouse directly from the onions. When the tulips get to the fields in April snow showers, not harm you – on the contrary, The snow protects the flowers from Frost.
In January, the tulips are vases in German flowers, mostly in Yellow, Red or Orange tones. Also available in White and Pink, there are you or two color. Some of the petals have run, the spitz – in the other, they are frayed. Especially rare is the black Tulip, which are actually dark red, or the parrot tulips, whose petals, seemingly confused are draped around the calyx. The flowers are so early in the year, thanks to the Tulip growers, who believe the onions regardless of the time of year in cold houses in the Winter.
Tulips at pick your own – in the Netherlands almost a national sport
After three to four months of cold, expose them to the warmer air of the internal clock of the tulips reports, it was spring, and the bulbs from.
In nature they sprout only in April, but then they develop all their glory, and plunge whole swathes of land in colorful colors. Especially in the Netherlands. There are a lot of huge Tulip farms, which attract the heyday of millions of tourists. With cameras and armed with knives, between endless colorful Tulip rows, taking pictures and cut the flowers that you can buy in big Bundles. This Tulip fever is over, usually towards the end of may.
From the feet of the Himalayas to Western Europe
Another Tulip fever was rampant in the 16th century. Century. Originally from the Orient, the root of the plants ended up quite by accident in the harsh Western climate of the Netherlands. In the Ottoman Empire, as well as in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, which were then ruled by great Mughals, was the Tulip, for centuries, been a popular flower that has graced gardens and palaces. Not in vain the Name of “Tulip is similar to” to the “Turban”, of the Oriental headgear.
The color range is limitless – more than 3000 varieties registered
As Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq in the 16th century. Was century as an Ambassador of the Habsburg monarchy visit to the Turkish Sultan Suleyman I, gave the onion to him some tulips. De Busbecq brought it back to Europe and entrusted his friend, the Flemish botanist Charles de l’Écluse,. This is taught in the Dutch Leiden University and experimented as a Director of the Botanical garden with the flower from the Orient. His results were convincing; the Tulip was at the well-heeled citizens suffering a sought-after plant.
Tulip bulb as an object of speculation
In hot demand, you were especially because the flowers were extremely sensitive. The cold and wet climate didn’t do the onions are particularly good, they were prone to diseases. A disease, for example, was a Virus that was transmitted by aphids. The petals made multi-colored and is particularly exclusive. This was more of a Fluke, and the flower has up today your name: “Rembrandt Tulip”. It was only much later, it could be growing the more colours in a targeted manner.
The movie hero Jan (Dane deHaan) seems to have success in trading
The Tulip quickly became a Prestige object. With the development of the commercial Tulip trade, the prices rose in absurd heights. For a Tulip bulb of some sold his complete possession of it – it was totally uncertain, whether from the tuber ever would be. At the time, the most expensive variety is “Semper Augustus” cost as much as a canal house in Amsterdam. You speculated on the coming harvest, the market went completely out of joint. From one day to the other the bubble burst in the spring of 1637. The prices fell overnight. A few had pulled back in time from the “Tulip mania” – they had made good money, but most of the traders and speculators were from one day to the other destitute.
Jan Brueghel the younger made the middle of the 17th century. Century, this satire: a Horde of monkeys as a Tulip dealer
First major film role in “Tulip fever”
Against this Background, the Film comes into the cinemas, plays. In the adaptation of the novel “Tulip fever,” it is first and foremost a love story: young Sophie (Alicia Vikander) has to marry an unloved older Tulip merchant Cornelis Sandvoort (Christoph Waltz), gets to know the young painter, Jan (Dane deHaan), the two fall in love and want to flee. To do this, you need money, and therefore a rise in the risky business with the Tulip bulbs. Director Justin Chadwick brings the Sizzling hysterical atmosphere of that time and again a pretty company delivers by the way the picture from the Amsterdam of the early 17th century. Century.
The Tulip, who belonged to the most precious flower of all, of course, plays a role in the Film – at the most delicate works, if the main actress Alicia Vikander keeps them in the hands. Will be able to save the flower, the desperate Couple?
Tulip bulbs against Hunger
Has rescued the Tulip in any case, some centuries later people from Starving to death. In the autumn of 1944, the allies lost the battle of Arnhem against the Germans. The result: large parts of the Western Netherlands were of food and coal shipments to be completed, as the Germans all blocked. The result of the “Hong winter”, a famine that are almost like 20,000 people to the victims.
If they are fresh, they should taste like milky-sweet
The Tulip-growers had planted during the war, no tulips, the bulbs stored in large quantities on the farms and dried. The authorities decided that the Tulip bulbs, to distribute food and the tulips brought to the dealer to sell it for you. They were not nutritious and the garden quickly, if they tasted too good. But they saved the lives of many people. Today a Dutch remembers saying to the former famine: “You’re not hungry. You only have appetite.”