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Roughly 27,000 tulips from 39 cultivars are in peak bloom throughout the gardens. The bulk of the tulips, about 17,000 bulbs, ...

and this year Botanica has 12 distinct types of tulips. Parrot tulips, which have brightly colored serrated, curled petals that resemble a parrot’s plumage, can be found in the Carousel Garden ...

But for much of his career (cut short in 1989 by his death, of AIDS, at 42) the New York artist also created pictures of flowers, including 1988’s Parrot Tulips. The genres are not unrelated ...

The bulbs are shipped to Memphis on cargo freighters from the Netherlands, which, true to the stereotype, is a hotbed of tulip beds, thanks to the work of 16th-century Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius ...

Dolores Singh, a former North York resident who has lived in the Malvern neighbourhood since three years ago, sends Garden Guru a photo of a parrot tulip that she says “is a rare one.” “They are large ...