I'll never see a tulip without automatically thinking of Amsterdam, and indeed the whole of the country. I recently went to Istanbul, a city alight with new spring growth- and their very own tulip festival. Yet somehow it just did not feel authentic to me. Tulips are Dutch, plain and simple!

Here you can see a planted row outside of the famous Topkapi Palace, home to the Sultans for centuries.

Do you think they import??