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The flower bulbs for the Fluwel Specialty Narcissus Collection are all packed up and ready, but this year, we can’t say the same about ‘the’ American Dream. There is a shortage of bulbs, people wh...

I feel like I’ve taken over less newsletters than usual this summer, even though we were just as busy as always. If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you’ll know that I, Pien, somet...

It happens constantly this time of year: I have to get into my car to pick up some more flower bulbs at the last minute. It may sound like an inconvenience, but I like this part of the day: drivin...

Yes, I have time to write a newsletter this week. Time is weird, when you’re busy as well as when there’s less to do, it never feels like there’s enough. The saying ‘time flies when you’re having f...

Two weeks passed in which I did not have time to write a newsletter, that’s quite something isn’t it? It is all a bit more hectic this season: because of the wet autumn last year, we were not able ...

No one does it quite like her… Almost all flower bulbs have suffered Mother Nature’s moods over the course of this last year, but this flower bulb is tough like no other. Tulips, Hyacinths, Allium...

Sometime this Spring, fellow grower Carlo van Schagen walked into our warehouse with the most fantastic bouquet of double Tulips. He’d brought them all the way from his own place in Egmond, and he...

This time it was Madeleine from Chile that stood on our doorstep. From Chile? Yes, from Chile. Years ago, it was the Daffodil that introduced us to each other. Madeleine has a tree nursery (mostly...

It's a bit of plum season so we're going to tell you a bit about what happened last week. I know, plum season is in August but in August we are busy with the Daffodils so we're doing plum season n...