Tulips are one of the most popular spring flowers, and the third most popular flowers world-wide next to roses and mums. Tulips come in an incredible variety of colors, heights, and flower shapes. Most of the cultivated species, subspecies and cultivars are derived from Tulipa gesneriana.
Tulips bloom on bulbous plants, with large, showy flowers with six petals. There are around 100 species of tulips, which actually came from the Central Asia where they grew wild. Turkish growers first cultivated tulips as early as 1,000 AD.
I photographed these beautiful tulips in the garden of a neighbor.