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Amaryllises are largely grown to send out their bulbs in order to brighten living rooms all over the world during the dark winter days. This is something most people know. What most people don’t k...

Before you know it, they are in. What do I mean by that? Well, the two flower beds you’re looking at here are our Daffodil cradles, from our Daffodil Nursery. You’re probably thinking: I’m just loo...

It is me again, Vlad, the person at Fluwel who is simply madly in love with Amaryllis (Hippeastrum). I know, I know, I sound like a broken machine by now, but hey, I can never say no to the wonder...

But fear not: The second best time to plant them is now. It’s a bit of a lukewarm joke, I think I got it from one of those tiles you sometimes see with random pieces of wisdom: “Free Beer Tom...

An example. If you live in Kuopio, on the North side of the Finnish Lakeland (now that is a place that I would like to visit), then the leaves start falling from the trees months earlier than the ...

As I am writing this, I’m about halfway through my yearly visit to the UK. It’s a big roadtrip: Sunderland, Harrogate, Manchester, Bristol, Cornwall, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland–and then b...

It is finally that time of the year that we can open the much-anticipated Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) season: next Friday, on October 18th 2024! So please mark your calendars, because this time ar...

I can’t help myself during the Autumn months: I’m still (or already, depending on how you look at it) thinking of Spring. Not all the time, sometimes I see a lot of Dahlias as well, and I also rea...

It has been a while since I wrote something to you. It’s me again, Vlad, one of our newest team members here at Fluwel. You might remember some of the newsletters I have written months ago and I am...

Time for a lesson on flower bulbs, inspired by our most frequently asked question of this time of year: Why are we waiting so long to send you the flower bulbs you ordered? We could do that, the b...

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...