A garden of hope is growing in Swannanoa after a company in the Netherlands donated 10,000 tulip bulbs ... five volunteers planting the bulbs from the company, "Dutch grown." ...

In February that year, bulb wholesalers gathered in Haarlem, a day's walk west of Amsterdam, to find that nobody wished to buy. Within a few days, Dutch tulip prices had fallen tenfold.

The Netherlands is well known worldwide for their cultivation of tulips. It currently has 60,000 acres of land dedicated to ...

In the 17th Century the Dutch went mad trading tulip bulbs in the hope they could make a massive profit. But was Tulip Mania - a parable of greed compared to the recent heavy investment in the ...