Bulb Mania mix at Keukenhof
Welcome to our Bulb Mania Mix at Keukenhof, bringing together bulbs & perennials of Rijnbeek Perennials and JUB Holland. This meadow-style border is designed by landscape & garden designer Carien van Boxtel and planted in close consultation with Keukenhof’s in-house designer Frans Beijk and Keukenhof’s dedicated team of gardeners.
Combining bulbs & perennials offers a great long-lasting effect with successive flowering. Colours and scents keep evolving for months on end. In addition, it offers a much-needed source of nectar and pollen for bees and other important pollinators after a long winter period.
Sun-loving or made for the shade
The Bulb Mania Mix is planted at Keukenhof in December 2023, and will be preserved to rebloom, develop and flourish in years to come. To help you a bit in tracing the perennials used in the mix, look in the sunny parts of our border to find perennials such as Euphorbia (spurge), the graceful Linaria ‘Peachy’, Pulmonaria ‘Trevi Fountain’ (lungwort), the particularly long flowering Geranium ‘Wendy’s Blush’ (dusky cranesbill), the heart-shaped Dicentra ‘Alba’ (bleeding heart) and the uniquely coloured Heuchera ‘Maple Syrup’ (alumroot).
In the shade, fairy-like and often airy woodland plants such as the enchanting Thalictrum ‘Black Stockings’ (meadow rue), Mertensia virginica (Virginian bluebells) with its funnel-shaped violet-blue flowers, and the radiant queen of early spring: Helleborus orientalis ‘Pretty Ellen White’ (Christmas rose).
Bulb Mania Mix – One of the mixes of our Climate Gardeners™ programme
Get inspired by the Bulb Mania Mix and its bold collection of early flowering perennials, plants with extraordinary leaf colours and textures, and lush naturalising bulbs.
You can always count on Rijnbeek Perennials to present a product range with perennials which you will not easily find anywhere else. Stop and take a closer look at these extraordinary varieties within the Bulb Mania Mix. Enjoy their pretty and peculiar details, colours and shapes.
Baptisia ‘Blueberry Sundae’
This false indigo is related to Lupinus but has a much longer ornamental value.
The tall spikes of this Baptisia are adorned with blue/purple pea-like flowers, which turn into black seed pods after flowering until autumn.
Geum ‘Flames of Passion’
This stunning variety can easily be discovered in our Keukenhof border, as their bright colour do not go unnoticed: Geum ‘Flames of Passion’.
Check out its unique petal structure and overall allure – highly attractive to bees and butterflies.
Epimedium rubrum
Have you ever seen anything like this?
The flowers of this red barrenwort seem to come straight out of a fairy tale. Their elf-like appearance is pretty unique.
The red and white flowers of this specific variety truly stand out and make a nice contrast with the evergreen foliage, which provides interest throughout the year.
A unique collaboration of Keukenhof, JUB Holland and Rijnbeek Perennials!
Rijnbeek Perennials, JUB Holland & Keukenhof give unique
23 January 2024 – Lisse, the Netherlands | As the shortest days of winter are behind us, spring anticipation begins – and for some the blooming spring season can’t start…
JUB Holland, our partner in naturalising flower bulbs
Our Bulb Mania Mix border is realised with the expertise of JUB Holland, Dutch family business since 1910 and Keukenhof exhibitor of the first hour. JUB Holland masters its craft from breeding and cultivation to offering designer inspiration and service like mechanical planting to realize large scale landscaping projects. JUB Holland cultivates its bulbs as sustainable as possible and specialises in creative mixtures, aiming for biodiversity and prolonged flowering, while spreading the most beautiful bulb-grown flowers worldwide through gardeners, landscapers and retailers. Visit the JUB Holland website for more inspiration with bulb flowers.
Keukenhof, Flower exhibition
This project was made possible by the appreciated cooperation with Keukenhof. The 2024 edition of Keukenhof marks its 75th jubilee, celebrating not only the colourful past but an even more promising future, with focus on innovation and intensified cooperation with the Dutch floricultural industry. Flower exhibition Keukenhof proves to be still evolving. The spring park is a favourite place to enjoy blooming tulips, daffodils, and other bulb flowers. It offers traditionally designed borders as well as modern landscaping and keeps on surprising its visitors with the newest creations. Keukenhof is set to open its doors for the 75th time on 21 March 2024. During the almost eight weeks it is open, well over 1,4 million people from around the world will visit the exhibition. Keukenhof is the place to enjoy millions of flowering tulips, daffodils and other bulbs in spring. Visit the Keukenhof website for more.