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Biet in wording
Het is op het moment de meest gestelde vraag na mijn nieuwsblog van een week of 5 geleden waarin ik over de wereldkampioenschappen bieten telen heb geschreven. Ik snap er echt geen biet van, mooie ...

Dahlias and Daffodils
Last week, PostNL was regularly seen with a large trailer at our dam to pick up the Dahlias that you ordered from us. Always a beautiful moment for us, when the first orders leave our company and ...

Bulb Farmers' Luck
When bulb growers have a bit of a break, they come up with things to keep them going. Well, you have to have something to do when you wake up in the morning. Around this time of year, they often o...

Red doesn't run
I had promised Vlad and Pauliina that I would take them to a tulip nursery around Valentine’s Day or International Women’s Day to show them what happens to most tulips. Vlad is originally from Mol...

The Thirsty Beet
Before I start talking about bulbs, let me tell you something fun. It has almost been forgotten, but I was once a world champion in growing beets a long time ago. “Was there a world championship i...

Overdose
Yes, I'm still happily cuddling in my greenhouse (what a hard life I have 😊 ) and am now taking pictures of the last Amaryllises that are coming into bloom. The Amaryllis flowers that I am photogra...

Pleasure
'You really enjoy your work, don't you?' I was told when I enthusiastically told a gardening friend about the tinkering in my Amaryllis greenhouse. That made me stop and think for a moment, is tha...

Blue Monday
Tomorrow is the day, not from me, shrinks made it up. From what I can remember it was an assignment from a travel agency to a psychologist what would be the best time to promote sun holidays. The ...

When the sun shines
When the sun shines
No idea about you, but here in the rustic Burgervlotbrug, near the beach of Petten, where the sea has been pounding the Hondsbossche sea wall almost continuously for the pa...

And it became winter…
But before we start selling you all kinds of bulbs and tubers with tempting texts and beautiful photos, I must of course first congratulate you on the wonderful new year 2025 that lies ahead of...

The Top Tig Thousand
Do you know what I like? That readers react when I ask something in my news blog. What I don't like at all is that I don't take the time to answer all those sweet reactions. Stupid, huh? I read al...

No news is good news
Yes, there is not much going on at the Belkmerweg at the moment. The spring flowering bulbs are back under cover and in the sheds of the lily growers the seasonal workers are looking forward to th...

The Amaryllis in a pot
We all know that Amaryllis is in high demand during the Christmas season, here in Europe at least. It is not only popular as a cut flower, or as a dried and ready-to-plant bulb, but also as a pott...

The first pancake always fails
I have to smile already. Must be pancake I can already hear Jacqueline, who always checks my newsletter, say. Yes, I type too fast, according to the girls at the office and daughter Pien I make t...

The Ferrari is fast this year
The Amaryllis is grown on a large scale to light up the living rooms as a flowering plant during the dark winter days. What is less known is that many Amaryllises are also grown to cut flowers. Th...

They are in there
And then suddenly they are in there. The two truffled beds you are looking at here are the maternity beds of our Narcissus maternity. That is also lame, you will now probably think, a photo with o...

The Perfect Christmas Gift
It's me again, Vlad, the person at Fluwel, who is just crazy about the Amaryllis. I know, I sound like a record player stuck, but I never stop talking about this beautiful flower. It is simply t...

The best time to plant a peony is two years ago.
But fear not: The second best time to plant a peony is now. Actually a lame joke that I remembered from one of the many tiles that you sometimes come across. You know, those tiles full of oriental...