A very successful Tulip Trade Event
We have participated in the Tulip Trade Event 2019 for the first time with much pleasure and can look back on a successful event. From Wednesday, March 20 up to and including Friday, March 22, we have opened our doors to both national and international visitors and presented them with a large flower...
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Tulip Trade Event has begun
The first day of the Tulip Trade Event was a great success! This is the first year that we are participating in this event and it will probably not be the last. You can still visit the event up to and including March 22. We are hoping to see you this week.
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Tulips in test garden
Last Friday we placed the tulips for our test garden outside. Many of our tulip bulbs are used for park planting and we try to mimic the growing conditions at our customers for as much as possible. Therefore we plant bulbs of lots that are going to be planted in parks in our test garden, so that we ...
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Lilies planted in test greenhouse
Our men have been busy planting lilies in our test greenhouse this morning. We separate 10 bulbs of every lot that is sent to our customers and plant them in our own test greenhouse. This allows us to compare the results in our greenhouse with the results at our customers, and it also gives us infor...
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Tulips for Tulip Trade Event in greenhouse
We are busy making sure that we will have beautiful flowers in bloom during the Tulip Trade Event from March 20 till March 22. We have put the tulips in the greenhouse this week. Because it seems like spring has already started, the quality of the tulips only gets better. We will show approximately ...
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Trade Exhibition 2019
We are proud to show the flowers that are forced with our flower bulbs at the ‘Vaktentoonstelling Zwaagdijk’ (English: Trade Exhibition Zwaagdijk) again this year. Would you like to see how our booth looks? Check our photo album here.
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Plastic across tulip fields
Yesterday was a good day to lay the plastic foil across the fields again. The plastic ensures that the tulips will flower earlier than normal, which makes them suitable for flowering at our customers in December 2019. And it also makes for nice pictures!
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Tulip Trade Event 2019
The fourth Tulip Trade Event will take place from Wednesday, March 20 up to and including Friday, March 22, 2019. We will participate in this event as well for the first time. During this event the tulip cultivation in the Netherlands will be put in the spotlight, and the participating companies wil...
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Bulb planting
The planting of the bulbs has started again. These pictures show that the bulbs are planted in clay soil with the planting machine. The bulbs are transported into the planting machine from the roof that is placed on the tractor. They are then planted in nets. The fourth picture shows that the nets a...
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Bulbs ready for shipment
You haven’t heard from us for a while, but we definitely haven’t been standing still either. On the contrary, we have been very busy and are still working hard to prepare our bulbs for shipment to our customers. Here is a small impression of the shipments in our warehouse that are ready for load...
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G stage
These pictures show the creation of a new flower in the tulips through the microscope. At the moment we are checking all of the lots from our own nursery and our selected growers to see if the new flower has reached the correct stage. The pictures clearly show that the pestle, which is in the heart,...
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Hyacinth and narcissus bulbs arrived
Besides tulip bulbs, we also supply bulbs of other spring flowering crops. The first hyacinth bulbs and narcissus bulbs have arrived at our company this week. We are now preparing them for shipment, so that they can be shipped to our customers soon.
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Checking lily bulbs
Our lily bulbs are still being shipped to our customers on a weekly basis. The lily bulbs are thoroughly inspected before they are placed in the container. During this inspection we also cut a few bulbs in half to be sure that the sprouts are OK. Of course we do all of this to guarantee an excellent...
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Rinsing bulbs
A small impression of our rinsing machine that rinses the bulbs so that they can be shipped to the export countries that require the bulbs to be free of soil.
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Peeling tulip bulbs
We are still working hard to peel our bulbs. After the bulbs come out of the peeling machine, they are peeled again by hand at a conveyor belt, during which the last pieces of root and loose skins are removed manually.
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