Garden Trivia: Did you know?

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Garden Trivia: Did you know?

 

* The Netherlands produces approximately nine billion flower

bulbs annually. Evenly distributed, this number would allow

for almost two flower bulbs for every person on the planet.

Tulips alone account for about three billion bulbs, which if

placed roughly four inches apart, would circle the equator

seven times.

 

* Seventy-seven percent of all Americans think first of the tulip

when they think of bulb flowers.

 

* There are about 3,500 varieties of tulips available on the

market.

 

* In 1635, wealthy Dutch folk could buy a single bulb for what

was

then the equivalent of fifteen years annual income of

working-class Dutch folk. Three bulbs could buy you a house!