The other day I heard a radio contest in which the caller was asked to identify the country that embraced the tulip as its national flower: the Ukraine, Turkey or Holland. Naturally the caller guessed Holland and even the hosts seemed shocked when they revealed that the tulip is actually the national flower of Turkey. In fact, today 14 species of tulip grow in that country where it is considered the “King of Bulbs.”
For untold generations, wild tulips have grown on the cool, mountainous regions of Turkey as well as the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, Greece, throughout the Balkans, the …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
