New York Times Interviews Scott, Praises Our Lilies

        Anne Raver of the New York Times is always worth reading, and we especially liked her recent column about lilies. She quotes Scott extensively and writes that “he sold me my first ‘Black Beauty’ bulbs years ago, and they have bloomed from mid-July to early August without fail ever since, in ever-widening clumps.” She also credits us with introducing her to ‘White Henryi’, “the classic trumpet lily” of ivory and amber, and praises another half-dozen of our heirlooms including the wild Lilium superbum whose “iridescent green throats . . . guide their pollinators – fritillaries and swallowtails – to the nectar inside.”
        To read it all (and find out what prompted Scott to tell her, “Don’t print that!”), click here. (Sept. 2008)

OHG in 10 Words or Less: Cottage Living Defines Us Well

        With precision and wit, Kate Karam sums us up in the September issue of Cottage Living: "Rare and lust-worthy collection of choice bulbs. Order early!" (Sept. 2008)

Country Home Recommends Our Bulbs for the Holidays!

        In this December’s Country Home, Katherine Whiteside gives us some nice props:
        “I reach for Scott Kunst’s Old House Gardens, a fabulous mail-order catalog packed with authentic heirlooms and vintage bloomers. Order bulbs for friends from the same decade as their house was built (daffodil ‘Sweetness’, 1939, for example). You’ll have your gift-buying all wrapped up before the holidays.”
       To search our bulbs by date, color, or whatever, try our easy Advanced Search! (Nov. 2007)

Meet Scott at Horticulture Magazine’s “Smaller Garden/Big Ideas” Symposia

        If you live anywhere near Raleigh, Akron, or Wheaton, MD, mark your calendar now for Horticulture’s exciting fall symposium featuring Rosemary Alexander of the English Gardening School, Gordon Hayward, Lucy Hardiman, and our own Scott Kunst. For full details, visit https://secure.hortmag.com/programs/index_2007.asp . (And yes, that’s a photo of our true Byzantine gladiolus there!) (Aug. 2007)

Rain Lilies for Elizabeth Lawrence’s Grave

        This past May we were proud to be a small part of a ceremony honoring Elizabeth Lawrence, patron saint of Southern gardening and one of America’s most revered garden writers. At the 25th annual meeting of the Southern Garden History Society, members made a pilgrimage to Lawrence’s unadorned grave in a colonial churchyard outside Annapolis where they planted white rain lilies we had donated for the occasion.
        Lawrence grew these tiny flowers and wrote about them in her classic A Southern Garden. In the right spot, they multiply happily into a permanent, ever more beautiful display. With Miss Lawrence looking on, we’re sure these will thrive.
        Efforts are currently underway to save Lawrence’s house and garden in Charlotte, NC. To learn more or help, visit www.elizabethlawrence.org. (July 2007)

OHG Helps Write and Illustrate New Brochure for the Hortus

        10,000 copies of the Hortus Bulborum’s brand new brochure await tourists in the Netherlands this spring. Open it and . . . wow! Two full panels are filled with a big, beautiful photo of the Hortus in full bloom – and if it looks familiar that’s because it’s a photo from our website. We also helped translate the text into English for Leslie Leijenhorst, the brochure’s talented designer and author of the Hortus Bulborum book. We’re proud to help this extraordinary botanic garden any way we can! (April 2007)

Did You See Our Catalog on Martha Stewart Living?

        We’re beaming! On her TV show April 12, while talking about the pleasures of summer-blooming bulbs, Martha held up our catalog and said warmly, “These are wonderful heirloom bulbs.” You’ll also find us listed as one of her favorite bulb sources at the newly redesigned marthastewart.com . Thanks, Martha (and friends)! (April 2007)

Join Scott on a Guided Historic Landscape Walk

        This May, come join us for a leisurely sidewalk tour through our home neighborhood, Ann Arbor’s Old West Side Historic District. With Scott leading the way, we’ll explore the all but invisible relics of the historic landscape that survive in any older neighborhood: trees that pre-date the pioneers, tiny garages built for Model-Ts, antique arbors and birdbaths, daffodils and lilacs, even historic weeds. For more info, visit [outdated link removed]. Rain or shine, we’re sure to have fun! (April 2006 and 2007)

Scott and Old House Glads Featured in Garden Gate Magazine

        “Scott Kunst on Growing Spectacular Glads” – that’s the title of the article that kicks off the Jan.-Feb. issue of Garden Gate magazine. It’s part of an on-going series that features nationally-known experts talking about topics of growing interest. With the help of editor Jim Childs (one of our favorite garden writers), Scott shares his tips for growing glads in pots, perennial borders, and throughout your garden, and recommends five of his favorite heirloom glads. (Jan. 2007)

California Here I Come – Scott to Speak at Filoli and SF Flower Show

        In March Scott is coming to California to give his beautiful “Heirloom Bulbs” slide lecture at the extraordinary Filoli estate and the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show. Scott loves meeting our customers, so please mark your calendar and make plans to come say hello. (Jan. 2007)

Christian Science Monitor Calls Scott “Indiana Jones of Heirloom Bulbs”

        The headline made us laugh, but April Austin’s article about us in this highly regarded national newspaper is terrific. To read it (and see a photo of “Indy” in our trial garden), go to csmonitor.com/2006/0913/p16s01-lihc.html. (Sept. 2006)

Site of the Month: Domino’s “Germinatrix” Blogs about Our Bulbs

        Hey, we’re excited! Not only has Domino magazine, Conde Nast’s hip new “guide to living with style,” named us one of their “Sites We Love”, but their blunt, funny garden-blogger Ivette Soler, aka Germinatrix, had some very kind things to say about us. “I’m in the throes of plant lust,” she wrote. “I just received a copy of Old House Gardens’ catalog. I have to sneak it into the house so my husband doesn’t see it. I hide it in last month’s Vanity Fair. He thinks I’m reading about the difficulty of being Hilary Swank, but I’m planning on acquiring some serious heirloom bulbs. . . .” Read and laugh on at http://www.dominomag.com/magazine/blogs/germinatrix. (Sept. 2006)

Canna Poetry Inspired by and Dedicated to OHG

        Inspired by our heirlooms (check out the dedication) and written by our good customer Diane Dees of Covington, Louisiana, this terrific little poem not only won a prize in the Binnacle Second Annual Ultra Short Competition (see umm.maine.edu/binnacle/short.asp) but just last month it was published in Australia’s Bikwil magazine.
        “Canna Mania,” by Diane Dees
        (for Scott K.)
        Antique cannas startle me in the garden.
        Bold leaves of bronze, olive finely striped,
        green blades with vermillion veins, paint-box
        blooms of sunrise and sunset, peaches and melons.
        Watermelon-red slurped by ruby-throats
        buzzing frantically around ancient rind.
        Scarlet/yellow harlequin pinwheel,
        random pats of butter streaked by Devon cream,
        technicolor leopard skin,
        lozenges of orange, orpiment flames.
        sometimes Monet, often Rothko;
        Victorian madness, sprouting across time,
        mine for the price of a rhizome   (June 2006)

Posh UK Magazine Spotlights Heirloom Daffs and Our Friend Josephine

        Six pages of the current Gardens Illustrated, the upscale British monthly, definitely caught our eye: “Heirloom Daffodils, Rescuing Forgotten Bulbs.” Inside, six pages are devoted to our good friend Josephine Dekker and her centuries-old farm in North Holland where she is collecting and propagating exactly the sort of daffodils we love.
        In fact, we’re proud to be the only US source for Josephine’s treasures. (And we got a kick out of Gardens Illustrated calling us THE Old House Gardens. It sounds much more distinguished, don’t you think?) You can pick up the April issue at many US bookstores and newsstands right now. (March 2006)
        [To learn more about Josephine, click here.]

World Famous Botanical Artist to Lead Workshop with Our Tulips

        Filoli is one of America’s grandest historic estates, its Botanical Art Program is internationally acclaimed, and next month two dozen of our rarest tulips will be modeling for a watercolors workshop there! We donated the tulips to Filoli expressly for this week-long course taught by Ann-Marie Evans of the Chelsea Physic Garden. All are true broken tulips (such as our spectacular ‘Insulinde’) which have enamored artists for centuries. The only bad news is that the $750 workshop sold out within days. Sorry! (Feb. 2006)

Meet Scott at the New England Flower Show

        I’ve been invited to judge, lecture, and lead a bulb walk at the New England Spring Flower Show in Boston, and am I ever excited! I’ll be showing my big, beautiful slides of heirloom bulbs at 3:30 PM on Saturday, March 11, and Sunday morning I’ll be leading a cozy, early-bird tour of the bulb exhibits. For more information or to order tickets, visit www.masshort.org. (Feb. 2006)

Thumbs Up! National Experts Critique Us in Catalogers’ Bible

        Our little home-made catalog is getting some national exposure and praise in the November issue of Multichannel Merchant, the bible of the catalog world.
        Two top-notch catalog consultants devote three pages to reviewing our catalog, offering some really nice compliments along with lots of helpful suggestions for improving it. They call our writing “world-class” and say we’re “on the right path” to an “A-plus catalog.” Woo-hoo!
        To read the whole review, and then maybe offer us your own suggestions, click here. (Oct. 2005)

OHG Helps National Collection of Dahlias

        Over the years, Sarah Thomas of the British National Collection of Dahlias has helped us add many great old dahlias to our catalog, and happily we’ve been able to help her, too. This spring she asked us for five dahlias she couldn’t find over there: ‘Bitsa’, ‘Gold Crown’, ‘Nita’, ‘Oreti Kirsty’, and ‘Tinker’s Tim’. We tracked them down at three different growers and sent them to the Collection in May. Yes, Sarah was delighted! (June 2005)

Garden Watchdog Rates Us in Top 1%

        In March 2005 GardenWatchdog.com named us to their prestigious “Watchdog 30” list of best mail-order sources. As they explained, “These are the 30 most highly rated companies in our entire database [of over 4000 catalogs!]. You can’t go wrong by ordering from these outstanding companies.” GardenWatchdog.com is a great website where gardeners can rate and comment on mail-order sources. Since the Watchdog 30 is based entirely on the unsolicited recommendations of customers, we are especially proud of this honor. Thank you all! (2005-06 catalog)

Watch for Our Tuberoses at Mount Vernon and National Arboretum

        Our ravishingly fragrant 2004 Spring-Planted Heirloom Bulb of the Year continues to gain converts. This spring we delivered bulbs of Mexican Single tuberose to both Mount Vernon, where it is historically appropriate, having been grown in America since colonial days, and the US National Arboretum in Washington, DC. We’re honored! (April 2005)

Garden-Bubba Felder Rushing Visits, Writes About Us

        Felder Rushing is one of the funniest guys in horticulture, and passionate about getting more people to have more fun gardening. We’re proud to call him a friend. Felder visited us here last month, picked our brains for his NEW edition of Passalong Plants, and then wrote about us for the Jackson, Mississippi, Clarion-Ledger. If you missed his column there, you can enjoy it here: oldhousegardens.com/felderRushing.asp. (March 2005)

1000 Daffodils Brighten a Cold Day at Arbor Hospice

        Planting over 1000 daffodils in clay, in the rain, in December, in Michigan may not sound like fun, but eight of the Old House Gardens crew had a great time doing just that on December 10 at our local Arbor Hospice. We had originally offered to donate the bulbs, but when the hospice couldn’t find volunteers to plant them, we decided to do that for them, too. Afterwards, we came back to the office cold, wet, caked with mud, and feeling great. For a photo, go to oldhousegardens.com/arborHospice.asp. (Jan. 2005)

Eudora Welty’s Garden Restored with Our Heirlooms

        Roman hyacinths, ‘Twin Sisters’, and other classic Southern bulbs are blooming again in the Jackson, Mississippi, garden of author Eudora Welty – and we helped! The garden opened to the public this past spring after a careful restoration led by landscape historian Susan Haltom who turned to us for authentic bulbs.
        Our customer and friend Jeannette Hardy writes in the Nov.-Dec. 2004 issue of Horticulture: “If you go to the garden on Pinehurst Street, brace yourself for a primer on the native and heirloom plants that dominate Mississippi’s landscape. There are camellias of every stripe, banana shrub and other fragrant plants, along with bulbs galore – daffodils, spider lilies, silver bells, and hundreds of other favorites that planted Welty’s writings into the tough soil of the Deep South.”
        To learn more, visit mdah.state.ms.us/welty/index.html. (Dec. 2004)

Green Scene and Avant Gardener Spotlight Our Bulbs

        Our old dahlias grace the cover of the August edition of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Green Scene magazine, part of a wonderful article by our good customer and culinary historian, William Woys Weaver. Will says there’s a “healthy revival” of interest in old dahlias and credits our “tireless enthusiasm.”
        And in the October issue of The Avant Gardener, editor Thomas Powell calls us “the premium purveyor of heirloom bulbs.” The Avant Gardener is a terrific, 36-year-old newsletter of all things new and exciting in the garden world. For a sample issue, send $3 to PO Box 489, New York, NY 10028, and tell Mr. Powell you appreciate his long-time support of our cause! (Oct. 2004)

‘Black Beauty’ and OHG Showcased in Family Circle

        In the September 7 issue of Family Circle, our good friend Cynthia Van Hazinga has included us in her “Plant Picks from the Pros: 15 Garden Showstoppers.” One of five nursery-owners featured in the article, Scott recommends the indestructible ‘Black Beauty’ lily, Byzantine glads, and our Heirloom Fall Bulb of the Year, Tulipa acuminata. (Sept. 2004)

Old Bulbs Spark Flaming New World

        Mac Griswold, author of The Golden Age of American Gardens and Washington’s Gardens at Mount Vernon, has been a customer of ours since 1994. She wrote us recently with words so poetic we couldn’t resist sharing them with you:
        “Congratulations! You’ve sparked a flaming world of old-time beauty from an ember that was nearly cold!” (2004-05 catalog)

No Joke: Kind Words from Felder Rushing

       Felder Rushing, horticultural demi-god, garden comedian, and author of Passalong Plants and other great books, stopped by to see us last summer. Recently he emailed us:
        “When I talk about places to start shopping for tough plants and passalongs, I wave around three catalogs and I give out three web addresses: yours (Old House Gardens) Mike Shoup’s (Antique Rose Emporium), and Kent Whealey’s (Seed Savers). I mention that y’all have three things in common: a love of plants that goes beyond the pale, networking with other hardcore plantsmen, and sharing both plants and what you learn.”
        We love you, too, Felder! (March 2004)

Our Gift for You – A Spring Bouquet for Your Desktop

        Instead of a blank computer screen staring back at you all day, now you can enjoy spring every day with our very first Old House Gardens desktop background (it’s like a screen-saver that doesn’t move). Remember the luscious bouquet on the back cover of our catalog? Now you can download and install it as a background SO EASILY that even the most inexperienced computer-user can do it in seconds. Click here and enjoy! (Dec. 2003)

Garden Shed Spotlights the Hortus and Us

        Check out the Winter 2003 issue of Better Homes and Gardens’ Garden Shed magazine for a great article and a dozen glorious photos of the Hortus Bulborum, Holland’s outdoor museum of antique bulbs.
        Be sure to read the sidebar titled “America’s History Keeper,” too – it’s all about us! Kate Carter Frederick writes, “The Hortus Bulborum has a small, homegrown counterpart in the United States: Old House Gardens . . . . The impassioned work of Scott Kunst . . ., [it’s] the only garden supplier in the world devoted exclusively to offering heirloom bulbs and preserving the increasingly endangered varieties.” Thanks, Kate and The Shed! (Dec. 2003)

Scott to Speak at Williamsburg Symposium on Heirlooms

        Mark your calendar now for April 4-6. That’s when Williamsburg hosts their 58th annual Garden Symposium, this one devoted to “Heirloom Plants and Gardening.” They’ve put together a stellar line-up of speakers, including our own Scott Kunst. For a brochure, go to http://www.history.org/history/institute/institute_about.cfm. And please help spread the word! (Dec. 2003)

Our Readers Write – A ‘Zomerschoon’ Short Story

        “Peter van Hausem stared at his ‘Zomerschoon’ as one might examine a rare diamond, or a precious ruby.…” So starts a wonderful short story about Tulipomania, gardening, and misguided passion by our good customer Diane Dees of New Orleans. Read it all at oldhousegardens.com/ZomerschoonStory.asp. (Sept. 2003)

Big Boys Jump on the Old Bulbs Bandwagon

        Ten years ago when I launched Old House Gardens, Paul Hawken’s Growing a Business provided me with plenty of inspiration. Now it looks like we’ve returned the favor – the latest Smith and Hawken catalog features their first-ever collection of “Heirloom Bulbs,” and the most unusual bulb in it is deep, dark ‘Philippe de Comines’ tulip, which we re-introduced to North America in 1998. ‘Philippe’ showed up in McClure and Zimmerman’s catalog for the first time this year, too, and ‘Pictus’ crocus – which we also reintroduced in 1998 – made the cover of Brent and Becky’s Bulbs!
        We’re happy for these great old bulbs, but with heirlooms going mainstream, we’re hoping there’ll still be a place for us. There’s plenty we’ll keep doing that the big boys can’t or won’t – rediscovering forgotten jewels like ‘Philippe’ and ‘Pictus’, bringing you treasures too rare for them to handle, and always offering unbeatable quality, authenticity, and the friendliest service on the planet. All we’ll need is your continuing support! (Sept. 2003)

Fine Gardening Spotlights Our “Antique Beauties”

        The May/June issue of Fine Gardening magazine features a great article (if we do say so ourselves) by our own Scott Kunst. It’s titled “Antique Beauties: Heirloom Dahlias, Gladiolus, and Cannas,” and it includes dramatic photos of a baker’s dozen of our very best. Check it out! (June 2003)

Kind Words from Colonial Williamsburg

        Our good customer Wesley Greene of Colonial Williamsburg, VA, writes:
        “We are thrilled to be able to include your heirloom bulbs in the demonstration beds at the Colonial Garden. They were a great fascination to our visitors last year, and we frequently recommend your website to interested visitors. Your company is a wonderful resource.” (2003-04 catalog)

Who’s Who at OHG – Charlie, Our VP For Relaxation

        He’s short. He’s fuzzy. He’s the handsome fellow on our back cover and the darling of everyone here at Old House Gardens. Charlie came to us about four years ago as a kitten of modest means, son of a single mom taken in by an apartment full of kind-hearted college students, including Scott’s older son Scott. His sweet disposition and an uncanny ability to think outside the litter box put him on the road to success, and soon he was promoted to Vice-President for Relaxation.
        Today his wide-ranging responsibilities take him to the picking barn (great gossip and a chance for mice), our test gardens (no one should garden alone), the shipping room (great view and a door that someone always opens), and our office (soft spots for power-naps and a whole staff hired just to pet his fuzzy little head). In his personal life, Charlie is an avid animal rights supporter and registered participant in the Humane Society’s spay and neuter program. His favorite things include crowded desk-tops, water from the watering can, and Katie’s lunch. (Feb. 2003)

OHG Bulbs Featured in Spectacular Calendars

        For some of the world’s most beautiful flower photography, check out the calendars of our good customer Suzanne Lewis. Some of our bulbs are included in Suzanne’s lush “Bouquets” calendar, and her “Heirloom Flowers” calendar [outdated link removed] kicks off with a glowing close-up of our ‘Dillenburg’ tulip spangled with raindrops. Charlie, our furry VP, highly recommends Suzanne’s calendar “Garden Cat” [outdated link removed]. (Jan. 2003)

Watch Scott & Our Bulbs on Martha Stewart Living

        Tune in Friday, November 29, the day after Thanksgiving, to see Scott on Martha Stewart Living! Scott will be planting bulbs with Martha in her backyard at Turkey Hill and sharing his bulb tips in two segments, “Heirloom Bulbs” and “Planting Heirloom Bulbs.”
        Scott had a great time taping the segments in late October. “Martha made me feel very welcome,” he says, “and her gardens are gorgeous. In between taping we sampled her antique apples, and she gave me a jar of her home-made quince preserves to take home to my wife.” (Nov. 2002)

See the Hortus Bulborum (and Our Tulips!) on Martha Stewart Living

        This spring the folks at Martha Stewart Living TV visited the Netherlands and our friends at the Hortus Bulborum, the Dutch botanic garden devoted to preserving heirloom bulbs. In a show tentatively scheduled to air Sept. 26, you can tour the Hortus with them.
        What’s more, since we are the only US source for the Hortus’s bulbs, Martha will open the segment by planting a few from our “Exquisite Rarities” tulip sampler. (Sept. 2002)

Extra! Extra! Three Magazines Feature Our Bulbs

        Three national magazines on sale now are featuring our old bulbs!
        In the October Country Living Gardener, our good friend Sharon Lovejoy writes about the joys of our Garage Sale samplers [now known as our Intro to Heirloom samplers]. In its September issue, Country Home spotlights five of our favorite heirlooms. And on the cover of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s September Plants and Gardens News you’ll find a nice long article titled “Heirloom Bulbs: A Selection of Unique and Endangered Beauties for the Garden” by our own Scott Kunst. (Sept. 2002)

Looking Ahead on Our 10th Anniversary

        We’re looking forward to our next decade with enthusiasm, gratitude, a little bit of trepidation, and a lot of joy.
        We plan to keep having fun. We’re going to get bigger (but never too big), save more bulbs, make more money, and still treat one another like human beings. We will always love our customers! We’ll keep working hard to rediscover the world’s greatest garden bulbs and to save them from extinction by getting them into the gardens of kindred spirits like you.
        The future is always hazy, but today at Old House Gardens the sun is shining, the birds are singing — and here comes the mail. Who could ask for anything more? (2002-03 catalog)

Scott Honored by Phipps, Says It’s “More Exciting Than an Oscar”

        I was thrilled this spring to receive the Phipps Conservatory and Botanic Gardens’ prestigious Flora Award. A Pittsburgh institution since 1893, the Phipps is one of the country’s oldest conservatories. It presents its Flora Award annually to “outstanding international, national, and regional individuals” in recognition of exceptional contributions to “beautification, education, and the advancement of the environment.” The awards committee noted both my twenty years of helping to preserve historic landscapes as well as my work to preserve and promote heirloom flower bulbs.
       I hope you’ll consider it YOUR award, too, because without our customers Old House Gardens would be just a dream. You make possible everything we’re doing here. So – please accept my congratulations! (2001-02 catalog)

Josephine Dekker, Daffodil Rescuer

        Josephine Dekker is not your usual Dutch bulb farmer. I visited her this spring in the North Holland farmhouse that her great-grandfather built and where she lives with her 83-year-old mother (who doesn’t look a day over 63) and several friendly cats. The house looks huge under its tall pyramidal roof, but the back two-thirds is actually the barn – a traditional arrangement that dates back to the Middle Ages. The front third, with its antique paneling, lace curtains, and sleeping cupboards, seems like a very cozy museum.
       Josephine rescues heirloom daffodils. She started by bringing old ones from the gardens of her countryside neighbors into her own front yard. “Because they are so beautiful,” she explains, “and they grow so well here.” Soon, though, she saw an opportunity, and though her farm lies well outside Holland’s bulb districts, she began collecting more and more old daffodils, propagating them in her fields, and taking them to experts to identify. Often she literally rescues the bulbs. ‘Seagull’, for example, she found lying in masses in someone’s driveway where he was drying the foliage so they’d fit more compactly into his garbage cans!
       We are proud to be working with Josephine. She’s a dirt farmer with the soul of a poet, hard-pressed as small-farmers everywhere are, but sensitive to a different sort of beauty and working hard to build a future from – and for – the past. (2001-02 catalog)

Tasha Tudor and Chicahominy Love Our Catalog

        Our good customer Tasha Tudor – Caldecott-Award-winning illustrator and author of Pumpkin Moonshine, Corgiville Christmas, and scores of other children’s books – included this sketch with her most recent order and graciously gave us permission to share it with you. Her caption reads:
        “Chicahominy, my head gardener, reading your catalogue. He is hoping for a PhD in Entomology!” (2001 catalog)

Top Consumer Magazine Rates Our Bulbs “Excellent”

        We’re not allowed to name names, but a leading consumer magazine rated our bulbs “Excellent” – their top rating – in a review of mail-order bulb collections last October. We weren’t surprised, just very proud! (1998-99 catalog)

Day One: Scott’s Letter to the World on the Cover of Our Very First Catalog

        In 1993, with high hopes, Scott mailed 500 copies of his first catalog – three pages of brightly colored paper photocopied at Kinko’s. It offered a grand total of ten daffodils, eight hyacinths, and twelve tulips. Though Old House Gardens has changed a lot since then, his vision and our mission remain unwavering:
        “Welcome to Old House Gardens’ first-ever catalog of antique bulbs!
        “For ten years I have been working as a landscape historian, researching and helping preserve historic landscapes and plants.
        “During this time, hundreds of people have asked me, “What plants are right for our old house – or museum?” and “Where can we get them?” At the same time, unfortunately, many antiques varieties have been disappearing from commerce.
        “This catalog is an effort to help preserve historic bulbs by making them – and information about them – more widely available. (Of course, I also hope to have some fun and make a little profit.)
        “What if you don’t have an old garden? No problem. Besides being historic, these bulbs are wonderful. They have thrived and delighted gardeners for generations, sometimes centuries. To any garden, they can bring a more-than-modern diversity of colors, forms, and scents – and a touch of the past.
        “I welcome your support. (Please send money!)”

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