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The Keukenhof season comes to a close this weekend (11 May 2025) and JUB Holland’s borders are in spectacular colourful form.
Titled ‘A Mysterious Dutch Still Life’, this year’s theatrical border was created by garden and landscape designer, Carien van Boxtel.
Van Boxtel drew inspiration from the 17th-century still lifes of Willem van Aelst – a master of asymmetry, chiaroscuro and poetic stillness.
Recently named an RHS Bulb Expert, she pushed her own boundaries this year with a daring colour palette of deep red, gold, yellow, and porcelain white.
The planting is still in full bloom now, featuring dark-toned tulips such as ‘Sarah Raven’, ‘Queen Rania’, the fiery Tulipa acuminata, the painterly ‘Rem’s Favourite’, and the late-blooming Narcissus poeticus recurvus.
Carien van Boxtel says:
It’s like composing with time, I treat flowering moments like notes on a score – a slow crescendo, culminating now, in this final week, in a visual climax.”
The composition immediately evokes the drama of the Dutch Masters.
Robbert Uittenbogaard, Director of JUB Holland says:
As one of Keukenhof’s earliest contributors and located just down the road in Noordwijkerhout, we see the park not only as an international showcase, but also as a practical test garden. It’s where we present our newest mixes and demonstrate how flower bulb designs can be artistic, thoughtful, and enduringly attractive in public landscapes.”
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