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How to Grow Tulips in Pots or Containers?
How-to Guides

How to Grow Tulips in Pots or Containers?

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Jun 21, 2020

Tulips look just as great growing in pots or containers as they do in your beds and borders. In this blog you’ll learn how to best plant and care for...

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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 Cutting Garden
Planting Tips

Planting a Cutting Garden

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Jun 05, 2020

A garden can be many things: A calm haven from the noise & stress of everyday life. A chance to exercise your green thumbs. A way to bring your creative...

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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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How to Grow Ixia?
How-to Guides

How to Grow Ixia?

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Jun 02, 2020

Ixia, also called Wand Flowers or African Corn Lilies, are colorful and exotic members of the Iris family. Since they love hot, dry climates, they will do very well in...

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How to Grow Spanish Bluebells?
How-to Guides

How to Grow Spanish Bluebells?

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Jun 02, 2020

These pretty flowers in blue, white or pink might look dainty, but they are the powerhouses of the flower bulb world. Incredibly tough, they naturalize very fast even in difficult...

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How to Grow Ornithogalum?
How-to Guides

How to Grow Ornithogalum?

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Jun 02, 2020

The Ornithogalum or Starflower blooms in clusters of tiny white flowers with contrasting black hearts. This flower bulb does especially well in warmer regions, where it requires almost no care...

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How to Grow Dichelostemma?
How-to Guides

How to Grow Dichelostemma?

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Jun 02, 2020

These hardy and easy to grow flowers don’t actually grow from bulbs but from corms; sweet-potato like tubers. They’re also called firecracker flowers, because they resemble a beautiful firework of...

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Tulip Nachtwacht – A Dutch Master in Bloom
Featured Varieties

Tulip Nachtwacht – A Dutch Master in Bloom

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Apr 24, 2020

A flower with as much depth, movement and drama as the most well-known painting of the Dutch Masters? Tulip Nachtwacht delivers! In this blog you’ll learn all about this very...

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How to Grow Chionodoxa?
How-to Guides

How to Grow Chionodoxa?

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Apr 24, 2020

These very early blooming flower bulbs are perfect for covering larger areas. They return every year, naturalize very easily, and come in a range of soft, beautiful colors. In English...

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How to Grow Camassia?
How-to Guides

How to Grow Camassia?

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Apr 23, 2020

Once a staple of Native Americans’ diet, these violet spikes bring an enthusiastic energy to any bed or border. If you’ve ever seen large swathes of them growing in Oregon...

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How to Grow Snowdrops?
How-to Guides

How to Grow Snowdrops?

Posted by Ben Rotteveel on Apr 23, 2020

How to Grow Snowdrops?  SNOWDROPS PLANTING GUIDE Galanthus, better known as Snowdrops, send the comforting message that even though it sometimes feels like it, winter won’t last forever. These iconic...

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