K. van Bourgondien

The story of a tulip in an American garden may begin in a Dutch field. K. van Bourgondien started in 1845 in Hillegom, the Netherlands, growing and selling flower bulbs; commercial catalogs followed, and an operation serving the U.S. market emerged in the twentieth century. Today dutchbulbs.com brings bulbs and perennials to home gardeners and professional buyers.

The calendar organizes much of the catalog. Fall planting includes tulips, daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, and alliums that flower later. Spring offerings include dahlias, gladiolus, begonias, cannas, and other warm-season varieties. A bulb is not chosen by its photograph alone: planting time, hardiness zone, sun, and drainage shape much of the result.

Bulbs sit alongside sun and shade perennials, peonies, irises, hostas, and collections assembled for different effects. The store separates home-garden packs from bulk quantities for landscapers and resellers. Buying more units can suit a large area, but it also calls for calculating planting distances and storage space before delivery.

The company offers planning resources: planting guides, a hardiness-zone finder, a plant calculator, and ways to shop for pollinators, cut flowers, containers, or naturalizing. These tools turn a seasonal purchase into a garden plan. They also explain why a variety suited to one region may behave differently in another.

K. van Bourgondien maintains offerings for landscape professionals and home gardeners. Their needs differ: a commercial project may want uniformity across hundreds of bulbs, while a family garden might favor staggered blooms and new varieties. The firm’s Dutch origins explain its specialization, but the current store serves U.S. orders through its website.

Living products ship according to season and destination. Before ordering, it helps to check the expected dispatch date, guarantee, and how bulbs should be stored until planting. A bag arriving before the ground is prepared presents a different challenge from tools that can wait on a shelf.

The best way to browse dutchbulbs.com is to start with the climate and planting place, then choose colors and quantities. The catalog makes a vivid spring easy to imagine, but the useful guidance comes from connecting each bulb to soil, timing, and care. That combination carries forward a flower business with more than a century and a half of history.