The trouble with tulips:
US (OR): Field-grown blooms don't last forever
The good news about tulips? They grow easily in Washington and Oregon. Bulbs reap the benefits of dry summers and cool springs, and deliver a rainbow of showy flowers propped up by robust stems with blade-like, bluish-green leaves.
Tulips -- one of the most popular flowers in the world -- wither in equatorial South America, which sends 75 percent of its billion-dollar cut flowers business to the U.S. And although growers in the Netherlands -- tulip central -- may fly greenhouse stems to New York and other East Coast cities, it doesn't make sense to send perishable bundles another 2,500 miles here.
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