Sentences with phrase «single tulip bulb»
Very soon, almost all classes of Dutch society were involved in tulip bulb speculation, with many trading all of their worldly possessions for a single tulip bulb.
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kicked off the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation's annual tulip fundraiser with the largest single purchase of Shelter Blooms ever — 25,000 bulbs — providing $ 12,500 to support the foundation's work.
Your flower story reminded me of when my 1st child was 3, she came to me, proudly holding a huge boquet of freshly picked tulips — every single one that I had carefully planted the previous fall, all of them green & barely showing a bulb!
Contracts for the most prized varieties of tulip exchanged hands for exorbitant prices that increased 20-fold in three months — and then collapsed before a single bulb changed hands.
It's no surprise, as over 7 million tulip bulbs are planted in Amsterdam every single year.