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A romance with Amaryllises Once upon a time there was a child in Moldavia who had been fond of Hippeastrums from the first moment he could remember. It was a beautiful day at the beginning of April...

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.

The mixtures and combinations are not the most sold flower bulbs in the Fluwel webshop and that surprises me a bit and on the other hand not. It does not surprise me because I think that many of ou...

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 ...

What wonderful weeks these were, I have never seen the Dahlias so massively so beautiful. Many plants were lashed by the bright sun but not the Dahlia. The Dahlia enjoyed the sun to the fullest.

An online store is actually just like a regular store, you walk through it every day to check whether everything is still straight on the shelves, whether the floor has been swept and whether the w...

“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.

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 c...

There is no Dutch garden designer who has been so internationally renowned for years as flower bulb queen Jacqueline van der Kloet. Garden lovers who travel to the neighbouring country know her fam...

If you’ve been reading the newsletter for a few years now, you’ve probably been waiting for the moment of the summer at which my dad decides he is too busy to be writing a newsletter this week, an...

Eight days and fourteen hands. That’s what it took to get us through the Daffodils this year. The ones that we sort by hand, that is. There were more than a thousand varieties, seedlings included, ...

Hi, I'm Bregt Hopman, and this week, I'm writing the newsletter. I'm going to tell you about my fantastic life and, of course, the amazing holiday job at Fluwel.

I have no idea what to talk about this week, so I decided to take a little drive to check out the Narcissus at my neighbor's place. It's a nice little outing, and I still have the whole evening to...

I’m not usually like this, but if you are a real Tulip enthusiast, I would like to advise you to order your Tulips as soon as possible, especially if you normally save this task until later in the ...

The time to dig up the Daffodils has arrived again.

It is time again for the annual harvest forecast, now an annual column in the Fluwel News Blog. The entire bulb sector has set their alarm clocks for a quarter past half seven on Sunday morning, to...