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The Peony has been on my wish list for years to add to our assortment So that you too can enjoy this beautiful Pentecost flower in your garden. Peonies are now widely grown in our area, often by ...

Quickly on with the highlights of last spring, last week I wasted my time with my enthusiasm about the Daffodil show in the church, but of course there were still a few nice moments worth mentioning.

Yes, great, finally time to write a news blog. Nice to tell about all the nice things I experienced this spring between the flower bulbs. But of course I have to start with the good news… Cake 60!

The World Daffodil Tour has been organized for decades now. For some true enthusiasts it is a well-known trip, but for many people, especially those who are not members of a gardening association,...

Old ladies still use this long-gone expression, which I have rows of question marks about. If they were to say this about a Dahlia, I would truly agree with them wholeheartedly. My goodness, a Dahl...

Hey, they always send emails, don't they? There's a letter from the Royal Horticultural Society in the mailbox. Could I please make an appearance on March 27th at the Lindley Hall on Vincent Squar...

That's unbelievable, I make a bid of a good half euro each plus foot massage for the first cups of bulbs of the phenomenal Tulip Love Story that Grower Jan Vink is going to sell out of our way, he...

When I told them at the coffee table at Land van Fluwel that the title of the Newsletter would be 'Daytime on Birthday', hardly anyone understood what I meant. Marian, however, a young, somewhat ol...

Yes, you know what it is; sometimes I have to choose and I can't choose at all because the choice is between a nice job and an even nicer job: Writing a news blog or taking care of the daffodil fl...

As of today, there are no less than 483 different types of Daffodils available in the Fluwel webshop. Really, 483? Yes, 483. I sometimes think to myself 'what have I started' but actually I just l...

To govern is to foresee. This is also the case in the bulb trade in broad terms. The Amaryllis growers have been chasing me now, actually since the beginning of January, to pass on our Amaryllis w...

A small change in the program of the World Daffodil Tour for which you received an invitation last week. Thanks by the way for the many nice reactions and registrations, the number of participants...

Every five years, Daffodil lovers from all over the world organize a World Daffodil Tour. One time it is in New Zealand, another time in America and then again in England and so in turn a country i...

An eye-opener, the phone call with our car dealer Ed. By the way, Ed is a good one. Car dealers have a bit of an image of 'has he ever been in jail' for many people. Not Ed, honestly, that whole E...

Great, this year the sun is rising again and this year I have to write a good 50 newsletters and I already don't know what I'm going to talk about this time. Look, we all know that my newsletters ...

We all have to deal with it at some point. You know: those things of unprecedented importance, things that are unparalleled. People who participate in them are looked up to with great awe, addressi...

Sounds good, right? That's how I opened the closing speech of the meeting and cozy lunch that we have every year with the entire Fluwel team at the end of the season last Thursday. It will probabl...

The Amaryllis: the perfect Christmas gift Dear all, About a month ago I told you in detail why I am an honorary member of the Amaryllis fan club. There are so many reasons to be a fan of this...