Mass plantings of flower bulbs evolved ”to planting bulbs in smaller clumps in perennial gardens, and now it’s coming down to planting them wherever you want in flower gardens.”
— Bill Miller, who heads up the Cornell Flowerbulb Research program in an Aug. 5 Associated Press article about Jacqueline van der Kloet. The Dutch garden designer advocates freeing bulbs from their “traditionally crowded and formalized settings” and achieving “new tonal and structural combinations throughout the growing season by scattering a few well-chosen bulbs alongside perennials in random layouts.”