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For example, if you live in Kuopio, north of the Finnish Lake District (I would really like to go there some day), the leaves fall from the trees a few full moons earlier than, for example, in the...

At the time of writing I am about halfway through my annual tour of England. A big tour, mind you: Sunderland, Harrogate, Manchester, Bristol, Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland – and t...

t is finally that time of year, the time I have been waiting for: Amaryllis season! The Amaryllis, also known as the Hippeastrum, goes live this Friday, October 18, 2024. And the title does not li...

Yes, I can't help it, this time of year my head is busy every now and then, and especially in spring. Not all the time, mind you, this week I also saw a lot of Dahlias and I have already started w...

It has been a while since I, Vlad, wrote a newsletter. I am one of the newer team members of Fluwel, and when I first started my job I introduced myself to you and told you where my passion for fl...

Yes, it is also partly due to a question we regularly receive about our shipping time for spring-flowering bulbs: why doesn't Fluwel send the bulbs much earlier? Of course that would be possible...

All bulbs for the Fluwel Specialty Narcissus collection are in the bags, but the American Dream does not come true: bulbs too short. Fortunately not too short, everyone who ordered American Dream ...

I feel like I have taken over fewer newsletters from my father this summer than usual, and that while it was busy again this year. If you have been reading the newsletter for a while, you probably...

It often happens around this time: quickly in the car to pick up some bulbs that still have to go vlie-vla-vliegnel with an order. Nice to relax behind the wheel and time to call back the missed c...

Yes, I have time to write a newsletter. Time remains strange, especially when you are busy, but actually also when you have nothing to do. Time flies by, you sometimes hear it said, yet it is alwa...

Two weeks without time to write a news blog, it's something, it's all a bit more hectic this season. Because we only planted the Daffodils around mid-December due to the persistent wetness last au...

Yes, it couldn't be better. Almost all flower bulbs have suffered from the capriciousness of Mother Nature last year, but this sturdy, steadfast flower bulb not at all. The Tulip, the Hyacinth. Th...

In the spring, grower Carlo van Schagen from Egmond suddenly walked into our house with a fantastic bunch of beautiful double peony-flowered tulips. They all come from the late flowering French tu...

This time it was Madelaine from Chile who suddenly stood in front of us. From Chile? Yes, from Chile. Years ago, the Narcissus introduced us to each other. Madelaine has a nursery of trees (mostl...

It's a bit of plum season so we're going to tell you a bit about what happened last week. I know, plum season is in August but in August we are busy with the Daffodils so we're doing plum season ...

Who would have ever expected that I would ever offer Peonies on the Fluwel website. It had to happen at some point because actually, I had forgotten, I have been in love with the Peony since I was...

In addition to the Amaryllis, Dirk is also a grower of the Crown Imperial, as the Fritillaria imperialis is officially called. Over the years he has built up a beautiful assortment of Crown Imperi...

Vlad has moved and can now be found at our office every day. Vlad has been working for us for a year and some of you may have already been in touch with him, but until now Vlad has always worked ...