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Bulb Index
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- Tulips
- Narcissi
- Allium
- Anemone blanda
- Brodiaea
- Camassia
- Chionodoxa
- Corydalis
- Crocus
- Eranthis
- Eremurus
- Erythronium
- Fritillaria
- Galanthus
- Geranium
- Gladiolus
- Hyacinths
- Hyacinthoides & Scilla
- Ipheion uniflorum
- Iris
- Leucojum Aestivum
- Muscari
- Ixiolirion
- Ornithogalum
- Oxalis
- Puschkinia
- Hardy Lilies
- Herbaceous Peonies
- Tender Bulbs
- Paperwhites
- Amaryllis
Our Fall 2018 Beauty from Bulbs Catalog
Welcome to our Fall 2018 collection of the world's best flower bulbs and Herbaceous Peonies! Our 2018 Beauty from Bulbs catalog was mailed at the beginning of June: if you haven't yet received one, call us at 860.567.0838 or click here. We'll mail you one straight away. Like us on Facebook, where we are posting photographs of the Dutch bulb fields, special trial gardens and the Keukenhof from our recent research trip, and flash alerts of of ever-changing Website Specials. Photo: Tazetta Narcissus Silver Chimes.
The fourth generation of flower bulb specialists, family-owned John Scheepers is one of the most well known and reliable flower bulb importers in the U.S., offering more than 800 varieties of the best Dutch flower bulbs and Herbaceous Peonies at the best prices. Our great uncle, John T. Scheepers, started the renown Beauty from Bulbs catalog in 1908 as a proper bound book with watercolor artwork and photographs.
Spoiler alert: We are already starting to sell out of some of our new, rare varieties. Since there is no cost associated with reserving your special favorites now, it's best to place your order early. You can always change your order prior to fall shipment. And, if you want to grow Paperwhites indoors from mid-October through winter's blustery end, please reserve them now. It looks like it will be another year of not-enough Paperwhites to go around.
To tempt you, we have added dozens of new Tulips, Narcissi, Camassia, Fritillaria, Ipheion, Hyacinths and Muscari and Amaryllis to our collection, like Narcissi Color Run, Drama Queen, Electrus, Gigantic Star, Moonlight Sensation, Sunlight Sensation and Watch Up; Tulips Caribbean Parrot, El Nino, Sunlover, Yellow Pomponette and The Delightful Tulip Mixture; Hyacinth Yellowstone; Muscari neglectum Baby's Breath; Fritillaria persica Twin Towers Tribute; Dutch Iris Alaska and Red Ember; Martagon Lily Claude Shride; and Peonies Bartzella and Celebrity.
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Call Us~We're Here for You!
We are here year-round to help answer any questions you have about your garden. Take advantage of Early Bird website specials and reserve your favorites now. This fall, we’ll start shipping flower bulbs around the third week in September.
Call us at (860) 567-0838 if you have any questions, need help making selections for your gardens or need a sharp pencil quotation on individual varieties in excess of published volume pricing. We are here to help you from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
- New Varieties for 2018
- The Best Naturalizers
- The Most Fragrant Varieties
- Deer-resistant Varieties
- Shade-tolerant Varieties
- The Best Forcers
- Bulbs for Warmer Climates
- Bulbs for Cooler Climates
Do you have our catalog and want to place a quick order? Use our Smart Order form for easy ordering by item number!
Use the Advanced Search to see your choices by horticultural zone, color, fragrance, bloom time, resistance to deer or rodents, and many more criteria.
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Allium Globemaster
Our love affair with Allium Globemaster continues unabated~there is nothing about it that we don't adore. It is the best tall globe-shaped Allium ever. It is healthy, strong and magnificently purple in luxurious shades of aster-violet that seems to change color....Read more
Peony Raspberry Sundae
Another one of our top five favorite Herbaceous Peonies for both garden display and cut flower arrangements is Raspberry Sundae. It's a must-grow for decades of beautiful, fragrant perfection. It's the Bomb If you and your clients are searching for an incredibly showy,....Read more
Top Quality Flower Bulbs
Each of our 800+ varieties flower bulbs are carefully inspected by both Dutch and American agricultural inspectors during the spring flowering season and harvest. Our devoted Dutch growers deliver our bulbs to our esteemed export colleagues who inspect them for top size, health and quality before loading them in to temperature and humidity controlled containers. The ships take about two weeks to cross the Atlantic. Once the ships dock, the containers, still temperature and humidity controlled, are trucked to our state-of-art warehouse here in Bantam, CT. Our Dutch growers and export colleagues have been working with flower bulbs for generations, as has our family here. Flower bulbs are in our blood. Once we receive our flower bulbs, we inspect again each variety to make sure that you will receive only the largest, healthiest flower bulbs from the annual Dutch harvest. We have such a great team in our 30,000 square foot warehouse, as well as in our customer service house. Some of us have been working together for 30 years. We’re like a flower bulb family taking care of your bulbs before you nestle them into the ground in your family’s garden.
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