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Exclusive for Mail on Sunday readers: See tulip fields burst into colour with Adam Frost

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Exclusive for Mail on Sunday readers: See tulip fields burst into colour with Adam Frost – join the TV gardening star for a fabulous river cruise in Holland By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 13:40 BST, 1 October 2020 | Updated: 13:40 BST, 1 October 2020 The riot of springtime colour as Holland’s famous bulb … Read more

A flower worth more than a house: The best-selling history of the tulip

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NATURE THE TULIP by Anna Pavord (Bloomsbury £40, 467 pp) Who doesn’t love tulips? Colourful, flamboyant, easy to grow and cheap as chips, they are the perfect plant to brighten up a spring garden. Yet these cheery flowers have an unexpectedly dark and complex history. The tulip has had ‘more adventures than any Hollywood scriptwriter … Read more