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Amaryllis, The Perfect Christmas Gift Dear All, About a month ago I wrote about my forever love for Amaryllis. There are so many reasons to love this plant so much: from its beauty, to the resilie...

The Dutch Tradition of Complaining If the Dutch have any talent at all, it would be their ability to good-naturedly complain about literally everything under the sun. Usually, there is no reason fo...

Ben’s New Grapes This week, I received a text message from my friend Ben, asking me if I happened to be in the neighbourhood somewhere in the next couple of days. Coincidentally, I was, as I would...

Trijntje Oosterhuis Dear reader,   Over the last couple of newsletters, you have been introduced to our new team member Vlad. Vlad writing the newsletter for a few weeks gave my father a few weeks...

The Latest Ladies’ Fashion  You may have never thought about the possibility, but you could just run in to me in the ladies’ section of a clothing store. I’m not one to try on new dresses myself, ...

Amaryllis, a Supreme Romance Once upon a time there was a young boy in Moldova, who fell in love with Hippeastrum. It was a day in early April, his 10th birthday, when his great-grandfather visite...

The planting day for spring flower bulbs has finally arrived and you can still make full use of it. For people who don't have a garden but only a terrace or balcony (like me!), a very special time ...

For Alliums the most frequent question we get is “Which Alliums do you recommend?” and I often say “I love the ones with a big smile, all of them!”

It was a gloomy day back in November 1993, when I had my first contact with the amazing world of the flower bulbs. Together with my mom, I planted a tulip, I was 6 years old.

Our Flower Bulb Blends The mixes and combinations are not the best-selling flower bulbs in the Fluwel webshop, and that surprises me a little, but on the other hand, it doesn't really surprise me ...

We are busy at the warehouse: busy making sure everyone is going to get their flower bulbs on time this autumn. Everything has been packed in yellow nets or brown paper, and now those packages are ...

Daffodil Duty Daffodils. Tulips. Alliums. You can order them again. Together with all the other beautiful spring-flowering bulbous plants of course.We have managed to combine a wide range of specie...

The last weeks have truly been amazing: I have never seen so many Dahlias look so good in full bloom. Lots of plants have been nuked by the hot weather we have had in The Netherlands over the summe...

A webshop is just like a normal shop, in my experience. You can ‘walk through’ every day, see if everything is still in its rightful place, if it looks and feels clean, and see if everything is eas...

Calm Before the Storm I would like to start this newsletter by thanking Janneke and Bert Hermans for the kind email that I recently received.They wrote the following warm words:It is Sunday mornin...

“What was your favourite part of work during the last few weeks?” I asked this of the teenagers that have spent part of their summer holidays working at Fluwel.

Electronic Bikes Dear reader,Last week, we noticed a bicycle-riding man going past our fields, equipped with nothing but four “krentenbollen” (a Dutch kind of sweet bread with raisins) and a very d...

Time flies! If you ask me, it would be nice if there were a few more weeks in a day. Every day feels like Sunday: there is always an entire week to prepare for. If you stand up on your toes, you ca...