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We'll keep it short today because we have some cooking to do. Not in a pressure cooker, mind you: the Daffodils need a good four hours in the vat. Though simmering is not quite the right ...

Isn’t she beautiful, that little, proud ‘Dainty Miss’. She really is one of my favourite daffodils. Here’s what I’ve written about this marvellous little daffodil on our website: What a cutie; Flo...

Flower bulb growers sometimes choose to flood a field. This is done to get rid of weeds, fungi and small bulbs left behind in the soil. Quite a clever method really; there is plenty of water in the...

Frequent readers already know I visit Texel a couple of times every year, and this time, I took my nephew Sigge with me. He is one of the star players in our Dream Team, and before we left, we made...

Time for another quick tour of the flower bulb growers. One of our American customers was over to see how this year’s bulb harvest is turning out. He does that every year because, just like us, he’...

I wandered Lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er vales and Hills,When all at once I saw a crowd.A host, of golden Daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and Dancing in the breeze.

Just as I was about to give up on thinking of a good subject for this week’s newsletter, Frans appeared in our break room. He told me he had no idea, I could write anything, as long as it wasn’t ab...

And just like that, all the bulbs are suddenly out of the ground – you just can’t make sense of it. One moment you’re worrying about everything that still needs to be done, and the next, the D...

This week I found myself in Weston, England, about an hour above London, drinking instant coffee that mostly tasted of water. Oh well.