Crimson & Lavender & Hot Pink

Crimson is the Dutch tulip — the deep vivid crimson of the most internationally famous Dutch spring bulb flower. The Dutch tulip tradition: the tulip (Tulipa — introduced to Western Europe from the Ottoman Empire in the 1550s CE — first systematically cultivated by the most immediately famous Flemish botanist Carolus Clusius — 1526-1609 CE — at the most important Leiden University Hortus Botanicus — the oldest and the most comprehensively historical botanical garden in the Netherlands — from which the most immediately important initial Dutch tulip cultivation spread throughout the most important Dutch horticultural community) became the most immediately famous and the most comprehensively economically catastrophic single commodity in European economic history: the Tulipomania (the most immediately famous speculative bubble in the history of European commodity markets — approximately 1634-1637 CE — the most specifically Dutch and the most immediately comprehensively documented of any pre-modern commodity speculation episode — in which the most elaborate and the most immediately absurdly-valued Semper Augustus variety tulip bulb — the most specifically mosaic-virus-induced and the most immediately beautifully striped of all the Broken tulip varieties — reached the most extraordinarily inflated price of approximately 10,000 Dutch guilders per bulb — equivalent to approximately 10 years of a skilled craftsman's annual wage — the most immediately and the most comprehensively economically irrational valuation of any natural object in European history before the 19th century stock market era). Lavender is the Dutch hyacinth — the pale medium lavender of the most fragrant Dutch spring bulb. Dutch hyacinth cultivation: the hyacinth (Hyacinthus orientalis — introduced from Asia Minor to Western Europe in the 16th century — the most immediately fragrant and the most comprehensively overwhelming of all the Dutch spring bulb flowers — cultivated in the most specifically Dutch bulb-growing regions — particularly the Bollenstreek — the 'Bulb Strip' — the most important bulb-growing area in the world: a 30 km long coastal strip between Haarlem and Leiden in the Noord-Holland and South Holland provinces — producing the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively fragrance-specific of all the Dutch spring flower regions: the Keukenhof — the most immediately internationally famous temporary bulb flower garden in the world — open only 8 weeks per year — attracting approximately 1.5 million visitors per season) is the most immediately fragrant and the most comprehensively overwhelming of all the Dutch bulb species — the specific pale lavender hyacinth in the most perfectly blooming condition producing the most immediately powerful and the most comprehensively intoxicating floral fragrance of any spring garden plant — the most specifically and the most immediately fragrance-overwhelming of any single flower species in the entire Dutch bulb tradition. Hot Pink is the Dutch window box geranium — the vivid electric hot pink of the most characteristically Dutch urban domestic decoration. Dutch window boxes: the Dutch window box tradition (the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively specific Dutch urban domestic exterior color tradition — the most specifically geranium-planted and the most immediately electrically colorful of any European urban window box tradition — the most comprehensively and the most immediately photographically famous Dutch urban domestic color element — with every most important Amsterdam canal house and every most characteristic Dutch village house featuring the most elaborately planted and the most immediately vivid hot-pink geranium window box as the most comprehensively Dutch and the most immediately internationally recognizable domestic exterior color element) is one of the most immediately internationally photographed and the most comprehensively Dutch-specifically-associated urban domestic color traditions of any European nation.