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Picking a Color Scheme for the Summer Garden
Garden Design

Picking a Color Scheme for the Summer Garden

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Dec 15, 2022

When planning a garden, there will be many decisions to be made. Where to plant? What to plant? How many flowers should I plant? There are many important factors to...

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10 best spring ground covers
Garden Design

10 best spring ground covers

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Aug 17, 2022

Ground covering flower bulbs can cover up a multitude of sins and will change a lackluster winter-garden into a sudden sea of color and fragrance. In this blog we’ll present...

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Flowering Bulbs For The Rock Garden
Garden Design

Flowering Bulbs For The Rock Garden

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Jun 29, 2022

Flowers are a great signifier of the beginning of Spring. In a rocky garden, planting flowering bulbs can brighten up dull areas with bursting colors. Varieties of dwarf bulbs can...

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Planting a Coral Colored Garden with DutchGrown
Garden Design

Planting a Coral Colored Garden with DutchGrown

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Jun 15, 2020

A coral colored garden is a garden for dreamers and happy people. In this blog we’ll discuss which flower bulbs will give you the softest, sweetest season yet.

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Planting a Purple Garden
Garden Design

Planting a Purple Garden

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Jun 02, 2020

Variety is the spice of life, but there are times when you want to make powerful statement by focusing on just one color. In this blog series we’ll look at...

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Instant Happiness - Planting a Yellow Garden
Garden Design

Instant Happiness - Planting a Yellow Garden

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Apr 20, 2020

Even (or maybe especially) in difficult and uncertain times, it’s important to keep surrounding yourself with things that make you happy. In this blog we’ll introduce you to our range...

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Planning a Spring Garden
Garden Design

Planning a Spring Garden

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Apr 02, 2020

Before you can turn your dream garden into reality, you need a plan. In this blog we’ll walk you through the planning process and give you some tips and inspiration...

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Red – A passionate color for a vibrant garden
Garden Design

Red – A passionate color for a vibrant garden

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Mar 23, 2020

Dramatic and fierce, red flowers make sure they won’t be overlooked. In this blog we’ll introduce our ruby range, full of beautiful blooms for a season of passion and intensity.

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A Whole Season of White – Planting a White Garden
Garden Design

A Whole Season of White – Planting a White Garden

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Mar 10, 2020

Create a clean, zen-like space with an all-white garden full of DutchGrown’s top-quality flower bulbs. In this blog we suggest the best combinations of bulbs for a full season of...

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Time Capsule Gardening
Garden Design

Time Capsule Gardening

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Oct 06, 2019

Bulbs are timeless, but trends come and go. Or do they? In today’s blog we’re looking at ways you can use era-specific objects and colors to bring a bit of...

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Urban Gardening
Garden Design

Urban Gardening

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Sep 15, 2019

No flowers in the city? Think again! Urban gardening is all the rage, and bulbs are the perfect plants to make the concrete jungle green again. In this blog we...

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Planting a Blue Garden
Garden Design

Planting a Blue Garden

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Sep 07, 2019

In spite of its name, the blues will actually cheer you up. That is, if you plant blue flower bulbs in your garden. In this blog we take blue-sky thinking...

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