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Before I start talking about bulbs again, it is time for a little trip down memory lane. It’s a bit of a long forgotten fact about me, but at one point in my life, I was the World Champion Beet Gro...

I happily continue puttering around in my greenhouse, life truly is difficult sometimes. I take my time to photograph the last Amaryllises, the ones that came into bloom later than average. Usually...

‘You really have fun when you’re working, don’t you?’ Someone asked me the other day when I had enthusiastically told her about my puttering around in my Amaryllis greenhouse. It made me think abou...

Tomorrow is the day: Blue Monday. I heard something about its history once, no idea if it’s true, but it sounds believable: a travel agency asked a psychologist which day of the year would be the b...

I don’t know about your corner of the world, but in our idyllic village, Burgervlotbrug, we haven’t seen the sun in weeks, maybe even months. Our coastal town has been grey and dark, the rough wave...

But before I will start trying to sell you all kinds of bulbs and tubers with beautiful prose and my best photographs, I would like to wish you a very happy 2025. Just as I was thinking about how t...

My Top Many Flowers  One of my favourite things is readers sending answers to things I ask or talk about in my newsletters. Then, one of my least favourite things is my own problem of not having (o...

There is little happening in the Belkmerweg at the moment. Spring-blooming flower bulbs are comfortably tucked into their straw beds, and in the warehouses of Lily growers, seasonal workers are slo...

We all know by now that Amaryllis is in high demand during the Christmas season, at least here in Europe. It is popular not only as a cut flower or as a dry and ready to plant bulb, but also as a p...

I have to smile to myself when I think back to visiting Amaryllis grower Ben van Geest with Vlad. The Amaryllis was very popular, so we went over to Ben’s place to strengthen our supplies a little ...

Amaryllises are largely grown to send out their bulbs in order to brighten living rooms all over the world during the dark winter days. This is something most people know. What most people don’t kn...

Before you know it, they are in. What do I mean by that? Well, the two flower beds you’re looking at here are our Daffodil cradles, from our Daffodil Nursery. You’re probably thinking: I’m just loo...

It is me again, Vlad, the person at Fluwel who is simply madly in love with Amaryllis (Hippeastrum). I know, I know, I sound like a broken machine by now, but hey, I can never say no to the wonderf...

But fear not: The second best time to plant them is now. It’s a bit of a lukewarm joke, I think I got it from one of those tiles you sometimes see with random pieces of wisdom: “Free Beer Tomorrow”...

An example. If you live in Kuopio, on the North side of the Finnish Lakeland (now that is a place that I would like to visit), then the leaves start falling from the trees months earlier than the t...

As I am writing this, I’m about halfway through my yearly visit to the UK. It’s a big roadtrip: Sunderland, Harrogate, Manchester, Bristol, Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland–and then ba...

It is finally that time of the year that we can open the much-anticipated Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) season: next Friday, on October 18th 2024! So please mark your calendars, because this time around,...

I can’t help myself during the Autumn months: I’m still (or already, depending on how you look at it) thinking of Spring. Not all the time, sometimes I see a lot of Dahlias as well, and I also real...