Jacqueline van der Kloet is an international garden designer based in Weesp, Holland, renowned for her artistry in combining, in a very naturalistic way, perennials and flower bulbs with blooming shrubs and trees.

When she was a teenager, she wanted to attend an art school. Discouraged by her parents who worried about her financial situation, she opted for another form of art: garden design. And we are glad she did because her landscapes are a feast for the eyes. Her garden in Weesp, the Tea Garden, is a wonderful place where she has been experimenting over the past 30 years with multiple combinations of perennials and flower bulbs, whose results are generously shared with her clients. She doesn't simply assemble plants to create a garden. She 'paints' the garden with a unique palette of colors and shapes, randomly intermixing spring and summer bulbs with perennials or ornamental grasses to our delight. Her planting schemes are not only elegant and a regal delight for the eyes, they also last from spring to summer through her sophisticated use of plants. Jacqueline has been involved in countless projects, from small to large gardens, private or public, in Holland and abroad. She worked with her compatriot, Piet Oudolf on the plant scheme for the ‘Seasonal Walk’ in the New York Botanical Garden, creating a four season garden. She also created the plant scheme relating to spring flowering bulbs for 'Battery Park' in New York City, designed the plant scheme for the National Perennial Plants Theme Garden in the 'Tuinen van Appeltern' and so on. The list is long and impressive !

For those who want to achieve a naturalistic look when planting bulbs, Jacqueline suggests an easy technique: “We like to toss the bulbs out into the bed and plant them where they fall,” Jacqueline explains. “This gives a very pleasant random pattern that is pleasing to the eye.”

Gardens by Jacqueline Van der Kloet

A Spectacular and Long-Lasting Spring Border idea For Weeks of Display

Designed by the renowned international landscape designer, Jacqueline van der Kloet, for Keukenhof - where over seven million bulbs are planted, offering a glorious decor, rich in colors and fragrances - this soft and tender combination of tulips and daffodils truly reflects Jacqueline's art at uniquely painting landscapes with her bulbs' palette, in a much more casual and feminine way than her predecessors.

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