per il suo contest dedicato ai fiori, perché mi dà l’occasione di mostrarvi uno dei protagonisti del mio giardino. Il Tulipano!
for his contest dedicated to flowers, because it gives me the opportunity to show you one of the protagonists of my garden. The Tulip!
A bulbous plant belonging to the Liliaceae family originating in Turkey and imported into Europe in the mid-fourteenth century by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq.
The cultivation of the Tulips begins towards the end of 1500, thanks to the botanist Carolus Clusius. Clusius' studies lead to the development in the Netherlands of many of the varieties that we can still appreciate with their multitude of shapes and colors.
In the photo that I propose for the contest is represented one of the late tulips that bloomed last spring.
I love this variety called "Parrot", with their bright and jagged petals, they are quite delicate, for this reason they must be planted in a place sufficiently sheltered from the elements. Today the flowers that we can admire, due to mutations, infections, hybrids and selections performed by man, are not the same ones that we could have admired in 1600, but we can appreciate different shades and aesthetic characteristics. There are about 150 species are included in the genus Tulipa!
