Is December too late to plant tulip bulbs? It's the question on many people's minds right now, especially as so many packets ...

In the 17th Century the Dutch went mad trading tulip bulbs in the ... the point that you could buy a beautiful house on the canal in Amsterdam for the price of one bulb," he said.

In February that year, bulb wholesalers gathered in Haarlem, a day's walk west of Amsterdam, to find that nobody wished to buy. Within a few days, Dutch tulip prices had fallen tenfold.

That is especially true if buying bulbs online, or bulk buying bulbs to plant ... Whether you are planting tulip bulbs, ...