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It’s been busy as ever in the Belkmerweg: flower bulb growers have been working around the clock the past week.

Spring is too beautiful not to be celebrated, so we plant Daffodils.

The general rule is that you plant flower bulbs that bloom in spring in autumn.

That news is way more important, and I am absolutely delighted to be able to tell you about this: Our newest Fluwel team member, Vlad, has moved from Berlin to North Holland with his family. You ma...

Oh how the time flies.

Newsletters, I love writing them. Sometimes there is not enough time to write one, but fortunately there is Pien who takes the honors with just as much pleasure.

I often see Crocuses, blue grapes, snowglory or another small bulbous bulbous plant offered per 10 pieces. That is of course possible, no problem, it is possible to plant 10 of such bulbs in your ...

If you were to ask me what I consider to be the best flower bulbs to plant in the garden, I would come up with the following species; the Narcissus is number 1, the Bluebell is number 2 and the Ip...

Major operation at Jan Hein's company; a piece of land is being drained. For the newer members of the Fluwel newsletter club, I should probably explain who Jan Hein is. Jan Hein lives in our villa...

Actually I want to write about Dahlias, but of course I also have to do my best to sell the stock of bulbs that we are preparing for the Fluwel website.

This week another newsletter from me: my father is busy with the daffodils again and as you know by now I am then appointed to tell something about the goings-on in Burgervlotbrug.

'Do you feel like writing the newsletter?' Pleun was asked this morning on her empty stomach. Do you really have to? And I could see from her face that she didn't really feel like it.

It was hard work this week; will we be able to get the daffodils of the land before the weekend?

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...

Today I could of course come up with another story along the lines of 'The slightly overweight man on his bike with four currant buns on his handlebars' but I also have to try every now and then t...

I would like to start this newsletter with a thank you to Janneke and Bert Hermans for the sweet email they recently sent me. They wrote me the following warm words:

If you ask someone who works in bulb growing around this time of year, they will immediately know what you mean: the harvest expectation. Always exciting for the flower bulb grower, how will the b...

The previous two newsletters were a complete failure but now I really can't avoid it, I'll have to tell you about Spain sometime. A discovery trip in the Pyrenees organized by Brian Duncan with th...