| Are you looking for some inside information on | | | | Even though bulbs are not quite so highly prized |
| flowers? Here's an up to date report from | | | | today as they were in 17th century Holland, they |
| flowers experts who should know. | | | | are still loved for their scents, their colors and |
| Bulbs are among the most interesting, most | | | | their shapes, and gardeners love the fact that |
| beautiful and easiest to grow of all flower | | | | most bulbs are hardy and easy to grow. |
| varieties. Tulip bulbs were once so prized in Holland | | | | Many of the most popular varieties of flowers are |
| that it led to one of the best known financial | | | | actually grown from bulbs, including tulips, |
| bubbles in history, and even today, tulips are a | | | | crocuses, daffodils, irises, lilies, daylilies, dahlias and |
| leading export from that part of the world. | | | | snowdrops. |