Our Easter & Passover Collection Is Live Order Today!

Easter and Passover is right around the corner and our talented team of designers have created a seasonal collection that will be sure to impress your guests or the recipient of one of out beautiful designs. We have an array of floral arrangements and spring planters to choose from.

A luxurious combination of pastel spring colors. Light blue hydrangea & tweedia, Pearl Finesse & pink Salma roses, hot pink parrot tulips, soft orange cymbidium orchid stems, fragrant white hyacinth, freesia & pink sweet peas with a pop of lime green viburnam and umbrella fern. This show stopping arrangement is designed a dimpled, white ceramic container.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Free!

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has free admission on the first Thursday of every month from 3pm to 9pm.

HOW TO RESERVE TICKETS:

Admission is free, but reservations are required. Reserve your ticket online here.

Free First Thursdays are supported in part by the Wallace Minot Leonard Foundation. The Museum receives operating support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Please make sure you are complying with Massachusetts travel regulations prior to purchasing your tickets. Visitors and returning residents entering Massachusetts internationally or from high-risk states are required to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival or produce a negative COVID test. The Museum reserves the right to deny entry to travelers or returning residents who are unable to demonstrate meeting Massachusetts testing or quarantine requirements.

If you'd like more information about your visit, please go to www.gardnermuseum.org/resources

Tickets are required to visit Café G and Gift at the Gardner.

Where do our most popular single tulips come from.

Our most popular selling tulips are single tulips, everyone wants to know more about them so we are writing this blog to share some insight about them.

What Are Single Tulips?

Single Tulips are, in a sense, the “most natural” of all the Tulip varieties. In other words: they have been (cross-)bred less than most of the other cultivars. This also means that of all Tulip cultivars, Single Tulips are the best suited for transport. In other words: Single Tulip varieties are the strongest and sturdiest Tulips available for wholesale. You could say that Single Tulips represent the first Dutch Tulips, that paved the way for the Netherlands to become the prime exporter of Tulips. You can still marvel at a large selection of these ancient Tulip varieties at Hortus Bulborum.

History of Tulips

The very first Tulips didn’t originate from the Netherlands, as many people think. Tulips originate from Turkey. The widely accepted theory is that they were introduced in Northwestern Europe by an ambassador for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I. This ambassador was fascinated by the flowers that were blooming in “almost midwinter, a season unfriendly to flowers”. After the first Tulips were cultivated in the Netherlands, however, their popularity really began to take off. This went so far that early in the 17th century, better known as our Golden Age – a Tulip mania spread through Holland that ultimately broke the market. Bulbs had become so expensive that they were used as a form of currency of their own. “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” – Rembrandt van Rijn This Tulip mania even led to a certain Claes Pieterszoon – a surgeon and mayor of Amsterdam – to change his name to Nicolaes Tulp. You might have seen him in a famous painting of Rembrandt van Rijn: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. Today, Tulips are still amongst the most popular flowers from the Netherlands. This makes our little country the main producer of commercial Tulip plants, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually. The majority of those bulbs are exported, making it an economically important product. Because of that, growers have continuously been experimenting and breeding to find new Tulips.

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Where Are Single Tulips Grown?

Many of our Tulips still come from big farms in the Netherlands, France, and Italy. Single Tulips from these countries normally offer the best quality in color, strength, and vase-life. To expand the season in which Tulips are available, they are now also being grown in Chile and New Zealand. Because the seasons in these parts of the world are mirrored to those in Western Europe, this has about doubled the time when Tulips are available. When it’s spring in Holland and Tulips are flooding our fields, it’s fall in New Zealand, which means the growers are preparing their bulbs for winter. Then, fall starts in the Netherlands and the availability of good bulbs is shrinking. This is when bulbs from New Zealand start coming in, transported to the Netherlands to grow in the Dutch greenhouses. The quality is still that of the very resilient Single Tulips, but most of the time it is a little bit less when compared to those from (bulbs from) the Netherlands, France, and Italy.

When Are They In Season?

In this day and age, it’s mostly possible to get Single Tulips throughout the year, thanks to the above-mentioned broadening of growing regions and new ways to preserve bulbs. However, the best months to order high-quality Single Tulips are still from February till May. The product range is broadest in those months, and the tulips are being grown from bulbs that were prepared here. This cuts the need for transportation and extra cooling, which is necessary for the bulbs coming in from overseas.

How Are Single Tulips Grown?

There are three common ways of growing Tulips: Directly in water Using a layer of potting soil In full soil Single Tulips are mainly grown using the former two. Of these, the method of growing Single Tulips in water is the fastest (roughly twenty days) and therefore the cheapest. Growing them on a layer of pot soil results in Tulips that developed a little more slowly, and are therefore stronger and a little more expensive.

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International Women's Day 2021

IWD 2021 campaign theme: #ChooseToChallenge

A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day.

We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.

From challenge comes change, so let's all choose to challenge.

individuals and organizations are invited to send in their #ChooseToChallenge images as we share images from around the world in the lead up to International Women's Day 2021.

So strike the #ChooseToChallenge pose with your hand high to show your commitment to choose to challenge inequality, call out bias, question stereotypes, and help forge an inclusive world.

Submissions are photographs of individual or group compositions striking the #ChooseToChallenge hand up pose to potentially be shared on the IWD website and social media feeds - and are ideally 16:9 aspect ratio (landscape composition; max 3000 pixels width). All gender identities welcome.

Please submit #ChooseToChallenge images as early as possible.