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Jazeker, het kan nog mooier. Verleden week zat ik opeens weer eens in een vliegmachine op weg naar de Nationale Narcissen Conventie in Amerika. In Reno, Nevada werd deze Narcissenshow, een bijeenko...

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 ...

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

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...

Last week, PostNL was regularly seen with a large trailer at our dam to pick up the Dahlias that you ordered from us. Always a beautiful moment for us, when the first orders leave our company and ...

When bulb growers have a bit of a break, they come up with things to keep them going. Well, you have to have something to do when you wake up in the morning. Around this time of year, they often o...

I had promised Vlad and Pauliina that, somewhere between Valentine’s- and International Women’s Day, I would take them with me to a Tulip grower to show them what happens to most Tulips in this wo...

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 Gr...

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 ...

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...

Do you know what I like? That readers react when I ask something in my news blog. What I don't like at all is that I don't take the time to answer all those sweet reactions. Stupid, huh? I read al...

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 sl...

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 ...

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 k...