Biet in wording

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 ...
Dahlia’s en Daffodils

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 ...
Bollenboerengeluk

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...
Rood loopt niet

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...
De Dorstige Biet

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...
Overdosis

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...
Plezier

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

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 ...
Als de zon schijnt

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...
En het werd winter…

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...
De Top Tig Duizend

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...
Geen nieuws is goed nieuws

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...
De Amaryllis op pot

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...
De eerste pannekoek mislukt altijd

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...
De Ferrari is snel dit jaar

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...
Ze zitten er in

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...
Het Perfecte Kerstcadeau

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...
De beste tijd om een Pioen te planten is twee jaar geleden.

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...