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Last week, I told you all about the new generation slowly starting to take over from us old men. With Karel busy at home, I thought I could give myself an hour to go visit BolleNoord. BolleNoord is...

I’ve never seen them this great :)   This is a quote of one of my neighbours. Everyone in the area knows he says this every single year, every harvest season. He was right to do so: The bulbs...

As I was driving down the road this week, I saw my neighbour Guustaaf getting water from the ditch to refill his watering equipment. I hit the brakes and stopped to talk to him: Come rain or come s...

I’m curious whether this first sentence is going to make my readers curious about the contents of this week’s newsletter. I could not really think of anything else to introduce our newest mixture t...

I feel like I am experiencing a bit of a writer’s block, where I have to wrestle the words out of me to get them onto paper. But let’s just start typing, my delete button may be a little busier tha...

No newsletter, but today some homework. The assignment is as follows: Step into the garden (or the park, if you don't have a garden of your own), look around you. Look at the sky, look at the cloud...

It was just a little bit of bad luck, I think. I just returned from Kazakhstan, where I was going to look at Tulips in their natural habitat. When we arrived at the airport, we already knew what w...

Since Carlos is away to see tulips in Kazakhstan, I have the privilege to write another story for you. Spring here in the North Holland province is just wonderful this year and since it is my first...

But what I often forget in all my enthusiasm in the spring is to remind you that we also have some Dahlias in the shed for you. Now I have to remember not to accuse all my dear readers of having a ...