Choice stress

How time flies, I wish there were more weeks in a day. Every day seems like Sunday and, if you stand on your toes, you can already see autumn and that is the time to plant flower bulbs. If you go shopping in the Fluwel webshop for your flower bulbs: you really don't have to be ashamed if you are occasionally overcome by an acute, often short-lived, panic attack. These small fits of nervousness, restlessness, uncertainty and disorientation that creep up on you when you have to choose something and you don't know what to do is called 'choice stress'.

The Velvet Daffodil mixture

Don't worry, don't be afraid, we can't all shop through the extensive Fluwel assortment like a seasoned flower bulb shopper from the start. I can well imagine that you, especially as a novice gardener, are dizzy before your almost tearful eyes. What should I plant, they are all almost equally beautiful, which ones will do well in my garden?

I'm going to help you. A certified stress coach would talk you into buying a stress ball for a rate of at least eighty-and-a-half euros per hour, I have a better solution, for you no stress balls but stress balls: "the Narcissus". Yes, really. Not to spend the whole day squeezing, no man, are you crazy, to plant in the garden.

Success guaranteed: the Narcissus always does it and often for years on end. Throw a bag of the Velvet Narcissus mixture in your shopping cart and your garden will be beautiful in the spring. Hooray, no more choice stress. Hehe, that's a relief, suddenly stress-free. For me too, because I know very well that I have caused you the choice stress with my boundless flower bulb enthusiasm.

Tulip flower arrangement by Tutti Tulpi

Another golden tip: if there are people among you dear news blog readers who, in addition to the stress of making a choice, also suffer from real stress: throw a bag of the Velvet Narcissus mixture in your shopping cart. Sounds lame, doesn't it? But I actually mean it a little bit. Nothing helps against stress as well as gardening. Not only the greenery and the peace and quiet ensure that the stress disappears, there is an even more important cause that makes the tension disappear from your body. Let me explain. The entire electrical wiring circuit in your house is grounded. All the wires are connected to a copper wire that disappears into the earth. If a short occurs somewhere in the electrical wiring network in your house, this earth wire ensures that the excess current flows straight into the earth and you don't get a blow if you happen to press a button on a broken electrical appliance that has become live due to a kink in the cables. Believe it or not, but it works exactly the same for humans. When a person who is under tension puts his fingers in the earth, the tension slowly runs out of his body, he becomes a well-grounded person. Also nice for your partner when the tension has disappeared from your body... at least he won't get a beating when he comes too close to you. How easy can it be, no stress coach, no shrink, no beach walk, no music, no Yoga. Or maybe Yoga? Yes, Yoga but then the Velvet Yoga. That is something like "Yo, go plant flower bulbs".

Big Ups

It doesn't necessarily have to be Daffodils to get rid of the stress and stress of choosing. Of course, there are also people who prefer to plant Tulips . Here too, I can imagine that while scrolling through those hundred or so varieties that that flower bulb nut Carlos has put in the Fluwel web shop, it becomes too much and doubt strikes. Here I would advise you the Big Ups . A no-nonsense Tulip mixture that works well almost everywhere and always. Or Tutti Tulpi , a fantastic mixture to get acquainted with the Tulip . A bag of plants and you have 50 different types of Tulips in your garden.

Big Ups

Well, what else can I tell you, I haven't reached 1000 words yet so I can still chat for a while. Last two weekends I had 2 parties of friends who turned 60, that was really nice.

The first party was Rob's. We've been friends for years and when it comes to having a good time, Rob has the same peculiar characteristics as I do. We were both always very curious about who would be the last to go home when we went out or were at a party. You understand, at three o'clock in the evening Rob threw away my last beer, Karin put me on my bike and gave me a push towards home.


Say Cheese

The second party was at Theo's, Theo has a large nursery together with his son, brother and nephew and is a huge lover of flower bulbs. We can look at bulbs together for hours and talk about bulbs. At his nursery there is a lot of beautiful things to see, many Daffodils from our breeding, but the most beautiful is perhaps his own Tulip breeding. Believe me, you will see many more varieties of Theo on the Fluwel website in the future. This year we are introducing Dancing Passion , Flaming Memory and Lemon Shoot from their breeding program, but that is only the beginning.


Lemon Shoot

Many of the partygoers at both parties were fellow professionals. All in all, I think that at both parties there were bulb farmers who together accounted for a good 2000 bunder of flower bulbs. As you can imagine, there was a lot of chatter about bulbs while enjoying snacks and drinks. As a gift, I gave them both a buffalo cactus. You know, one of those unpopular fat cowboy cactuses from Euphoerbia. I find that funny, those two will be looking at a monster cactus for the rest of their lives. They can think of me when that piece of junk is in the way again.

Dancing Passion

I always find the cactus a funny gift, who gives someone a cactus... I also gave 'Bregt Meesterknecht' a cactus, but that was a very special one; a cuddly cactus in the most cheesy pot I could find. There are no spines on it, hence cuddly. Bregt was very happy and cheesy can sometimes be really beautiful.

Rose with the cuddly cactus that we are going to give to Bregt.

I'm going to stop now, see you next week.

Kind regards,

Carlos


The gift cacti