George Eastman Museum

This process to put a show together starts in June. It is almost a year-round process for us to put this on. Orders go in in June, with delivery in October. All of my orders are put through to two companies that are directly connected to Holland. Their offices are here in New York, but their farms are in Holland. The companies that I use, one of them is directly connected with Eastman. He originally was ordering bulbs from this company. It's been around since the late 1800s. It's another way for us to connect with how George Eastman did run his gardens and how he ran his flowers in the winter. All of my bulbs are brought direct from Holland, usually on skids that are sent over. How I know is we have packing lists that come in Dutch. Luckily, I do get sent ahead of time packing lists in English so that I can understand what they've sent me. That's just the beginning of this show that you're looking at today. Come October, the bulbs start arriving into the U.S. and are brought to us here in the Eastman House,