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The New Amaryllis Harvest
You can order them again!
This year, we are a little bit earlier than usual, but we have noticed such a broad interest in the Amaryllis collection this year that we would really like ...

That’s What I’ll Write About In The Newsletter
This week, I drove down to Lisse to pick up the last of the Daffodils that are going to be shipped to England this year. They have to leave the warehouse on Friday, and as I’m going to get them, it...

Free Range Office
No, the free range isn’t for our dear flower bulbs. I won’t try to tell you that we are sticking a vague supermarket promise about the life of cattle onto our bulbs—as you know, we love all of our ...

Five Regular Hamburgers and One Veggie Burger, Please
It’s always great fun to take our Dream Team to Land van Fluwel for lunch. They spend their days elbow-deep in Daffodil bulbs, so they very much deserve a made-by-Linda-pancake-lunch every once in ...

Big news, bigger news, and a catastrophe
Today’s good news: As of today, the Peonies are back in our web shop and are ready to be ordered. Last year, we received many happy messages about them, and we’ve been sent lots of great stories an...

Old Men
Last week, I told you all about the new generation slowly starting to take over from us old men. With Karel busy at home, I thought I could give myself an hour to go visit BolleNoord. BolleNoord is...

Fluwel Special Narcissus
I’ve never seen them this great :)
This is a quote of one of my neighbours. Everyone in the area knows he says this every single year, every harvest season. He was right to do so: The bulbs...

This is the captain speaking
As I was driving down the road this week, I saw my neighbour Guustaaf getting water from the ditch to refill his watering equipment. I hit the brakes and stopped to talk to him: Come rain or come s...

A Good Foundations Does Wonders For Your Make-Up
I’m curious whether this first sentence is going to make my readers curious about the contents of this week’s newsletter. I could not really think of anything else to introduce our newest mixture t...

And The Beet Goes On
I feel like I am experiencing a bit of a writer’s block, where I have to wrestle the words out of me to get them onto paper. But let’s just start typing, my delete button may be a little busier tha...

No newsletter but homework
No newsletter, but today some homework. The assignment is as follows: Step into the garden (or the park, if you don't have a garden of your own), look around you. Look at the sky, look at the cloud...

Over A Week Late
It was just a little bit of bad luck, I think. I just returned from Kazakhstan, where I was going to look at Tulips in their natural habitat. When we arrived at the airport, we already knew what w...

Neverending Tulip Fields
Since Carlos is away to see tulips in Kazakhstan, I have the privilege to write another story for you. Spring here in the North Holland province is just wonderful this year and since it is my first...

Dahlia preparations
But what I often forget in all my enthusiasm in the spring is to remind you that we also have some Dahlias in the shed for you. Now I have to remember not to accuse all my dear readers of having a ...

2025 US Open
This week, the answer is yes, it does get better. Last week, I found myself in an airplane being jetted off to the US of A again, this time for the National Daffodil Convention in Reno, Nevada. The...

Growing flower bulbs in pots
Dear readers,
I have the honor to address you again, as Carlos is in the US, taking part at the National Daffodil Convention in Reno, Nevada. Today I would like to write about growing flower bulbs ...

Teaching
But let's start with a housekeeping announcement. Today and tomorrow are the last days you can order Lilies from us.

Beet to Be
It is currently the most frequently asked question after my news blog of about 5 weeks ago in which I wrote about the world championships Beet growing. I truly don't understand, beautiful stories a...