Like many economic bubbles—from Bitcoin to the South Sea bubble—Holland’s infamous “Tulip Mania” was doomed to burst. But the ...

Spring has well and truly sprung at Dyrham Park, where more than 20,000 tulips are bursting into colour in a Dutch-inspired ...

The flower was domesticated by the Ottomans, who planted vast numbers of bulbs in their palace gardens and were as fascinated by rare and exotic tulips as the Dutch at the height of tulip mania.

At least in the tulip-mania of the 1640s, even if you lost your money, you had bulbs that would yield beautiful flowers. If crypto-mania crashes, all that will be left is bits of paper and plastic ...