The first tulip bulbs from our carefully selected growers have just arrived at our company! These are the varieties Kung Fu, Red Light, Verona and Marie Jo. Click on the variety names to see which beautiful tulips will grow out of these bulbs in a couple of months.  ...

On June 1, 2018 the city of Naruto in Japan celebrated that it was exactly 100 years ago that Beethoven's 9th Symphony was performed there for the first time in Asia by German prisoners of war for a Japanese audience. This was a good reason for an anniversary week in Naruto. Stephan Pfluger, who ...

We are glad to show you our new amaryllis poster and brochure! These are the most popular amaryllis varieties in our assortment. Check our complete amaryllis assortment including the beautiful pictures that are shown on the poster and in the brochure here. By the way, those pictures were taken ...

We currently have a lily show at our company with more than 100 lily varieties from our test greenhouse and from top breeders. You can find a colourful impression of the lily show at our company this week in the photo album on our site. Please contact us if you would like to receive more i...

The Keukenhof opened its doors again on March 22! You can enjoy the floral splendour until May 13 this year. We are an official exhibitor and have supplied our bulbs again. You can find many beautiful pictures in this photo album, which were taken during one of our visits to the Keukenhof. ...

We currently have a show with spring flowering crops such as tulips, amaryllises, alliums, etc. at our company. Are you curious to see what this looks like? Check our photo album here. ...

We are present at the ‘Vaktentoonstelling Zwaagdijk’ (English: Trade Exhibition Zwaagdijk) again in 2018. Would you like to see how our booth looks? Check our photo album here. ...

At the end of last week, the conditions were good to cover the field of recently planted tulip bulbs with plastic foil. This foil ensures that the tulips will flower earlier next spring, and therefore the bulbs can be harvested earlier as well. This way, the tulips will flower approximately 2 weeks ...

We have not updated the news section on our website for a while, but we have nevertheless been very busy. This video gives you a short impression of the preparation of the bulb shipments that leave our company in large numbers this period. ...

We are glad to show you some pictures of the harvesting, washing, peeling, grading, quality checking, and counting of tulip bulbs. Our own tulip harvest finished last Friday and the results are rather satisfactory. The harvest was earlier this year compared to normal years due to the warm weather in...

These pictures show the lilies from our test greenhouse that are currently on display at our company. The following varieties can be seen in the pictures: Tabledance, Palazzo, Snowboard, Lesotho, Zambesi, Manissa, Fujian, Profundo, Robina, Serano, Valdosta, Fenice, Fastrada, Double Surprise, Marlon,...

These pictures show the first colours that are appearing in our lily test greenhouse this year. Yellow Diamond, Corleone, Maldano, Dalian, Zambesi, and Bacardi are some examples of the more than 60 lily varieties of top quality that are currently growing in our greenhouse. We have planted 800 sample...

We celebrate our 95th anniversary in 2017! We are proud that we have grown into a large flower bulb company in 95 years with export to more than 20 countries, but that we are also still a family company that focuses on long-term relationships with customers, suppliers, and staff. We went to the Keuk...

Our test garden with more than 400 tulip, hyacinth, narcissus, and allium varieties is in full bloom at the moment. We can enjoy this colourful sea of flowers even longer this year because of the recent cold weather. Our test garden attracts many customers from both the Netherlands and abroad, and o...

The weather has been dry in our part of the country for quite some time now. This makes most people happy, but the tulips do not like it very much. The tops of the first tulips have been cut off, and therefore they need water now. A reel is used for the irrigation. The tractor rolls out the hose, an...

And in the meantime… While the first tulips are flowering outside, the lilies in our test greenhouse are also growing well. Now that the sun shines on a regular basis, it will not take long before this will be in bloom. When the last tulips are dried out in the field in May, these lilies will flo...

Now that spring’s warm temperatures have started, the first tulips have started to bloom. The fields in the pictures have been covered with a layer of plastic foil in December. This foil allows the tulips to reach an earlier flowering period, so that the bulbs can be used earlier in the winter. Th...

The Keukenhof opened again last week. In 2017, the Keukenhof is open from March 23 up to and including May 21. A new main entrance to the park was put into service this year. We are a regular sender of the Keukenhof, and you can admire our annual submission in the garden next to the Juliana Pavilion...

The first varieties in our test garden are flowering next to our company at the Westeinde again. At the moment the first daffodils and hyacinths are in bloom. We have substantially expanded our test garden this year. All of our sold varieties as well as a couple of new varieties are planted in the g...

Here you can see a few pictures of our tulips in the greenhouse of the Flower Bulb Inspection Service (Dutch: Bloembollenkeuringsdienst; BKD). In this greenhouse, the BKD checks if the quality of the planted bulbs in the fields of the growers matches the certification. The planting material is alrea...

The sun is shining, the temperature is rising, and the tulips are emerging from the soil again. Therefore we have started to select the tulips again. In doing so, we drive a truck over the planted beds. Each tulip that deviates from the normal image, mostly caused by a virus, is removed immediately....

We have been using our tulip test greenhouse for a while now. The planning of the desired flowering date at our customers is synchronised with the growth of our tulips in our own test greenhouse. Each lot is sampled before shipment, and is planted and put in the greenhouse at the same time as it was...

We are present at the ‘Vaktentoonstelling Zwaagdijk’ (English: Trade Exhibition Zwaagdijk) again this year, and our booth is looking beautiful again. The weather outside is cold and the trees are bare, but colourful flowers are blooming profusely inside. Does this not make you eager for spring? ...

In addition to the tulip samples, we have also planted more than 800 lily samples in our lily test greenhouse again, which we select from all of the lots that are supplied to our customers. These lots are going to be assessed by our staff in the coming months. We use this data to get to know all of ...

We have put many cases with tulips outside in our test garden again, which is located next to our company buildings. We also did this last year, but this year the number of planted varieties is much bigger. One of the reasons this happened is because there is so much interest from our customers in o...

On November 11, 2016 the weather conditions were good to cover the fields with recently planted tulip bulbs with plastic foil. This foil ensures that the tulips will bloom approximately 2 weeks earlier next winter (2017/2018) than they would without foil. ...

The 6 new Lily Angels 2017 were presented in Tokyo on October 28, 2016. These are daughters of Japanese lily growers that are deployed to promote lilies in Japan. The event took place in the French embassy, and the attendees were addressed by several people that are involved in the lily business wit...

The export process is in full swing at the moment. We have received many bulbs from our selected growers during the past summer, and they are now processed and sent into the wide world. You can watch a clip on our video page that shows the activities that are taking place at our company. Please also...

Following the quality inspection of the tulips, we are currently checking the lilies in our lily test greenhouse. Twice a year, we plant ten bulbs of every lot that is supplied to us in this greenhouse. This allows us to check the quality of the lots, and count how many flowers per stem there are fo...

We are glad to inform you that we have added a video page to our website. This way, we are sure that our videos can be watched all over the world, even in countries that cannot acces Facebook and YouTube. Please click here to visit our video page and enjoy a look behind the scenes of our company. ...

We are pleased to show you a couple of pictures of our test plantings. It is very important for us to plant samples of our bulbs, because this allows us to check the growing results of our bulbs and our temperature treatments, which we can use as a reference test towards our customers. Furtherm...

We have now added beautiful pictures of our hyacinth varieties to our website! Please click here to check our hyacinth assortment. If you are interested in our hyacinth bulbs, please contact us by sending an e-mail to info@jandewitenzonen.com, or by filling in the contact form on our website. I...

For the last couple of months, we have been working hard to make our new website available in as many as eight languages. We are proud to announce that we have achieved this! Our website can now be read in Dutch, English, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Russian, Spanish, and German. This enables us t...

Click here to view an impression of our stand at the ‘Vaktentoonstelling Zwaagdijk 2016’ (English: Trade Exhibition Zwaagdijk 2016). This annual exhibition began today, and combines a large bulb flower show with a trade fair for companies in the flower bulb sector. Today and tomorrow, ...

We are pleased to inform you that we have introduced two new picture books: the ‘Tulip Book’ and the ‘Spring Flowering Book’. The Tulip Book is filled with pictures of and practical information about many different tulip varieties that are suitable for forcing. The Spring...

If you click on the following link, you can read an article about the tulip variety Red Label, and watch two videos about this variety. Red Label is a beautiful red tulip variety that we export exclusively. You can find more information about Red Label on our website. Please do not hesitate to conta...

You can watch a short video here to get an impression of the activities within our company. These beautiful images are captured with the use of a drone. Click here to view all of our videos on YouTube. ...

The beautiful pink-yellow tulip Sanne has been voted Japanese 'Flower Bulb of the Year 2016’. The tulip originated from a cross between the lily-flowered tulip Ballerina and the Triumph tulip Peer Gynt. Sanne’s pink petals turn to pastel colours with a light yellow edge when the...

As of July 2015, Jan de Wit en Zonen B.V. has started activities in the premises of CNB Refrigeration and Preparation Company. The storage and processing of tulip bulbs takes place here. This also took place here on a small scale in 2014, but we have now decided to process all of our tulip bulbs in ...

In the spring of 2015, we built our own connection road that connects the Westeinde in Enkhuizen to the Veilingweg in Bovenkarspel, via CNB Refrigeration and Cooling Company. This road ensures that we do not cause nuisance on the Westeinde anymore, where our company is located. In order to realise t...

As of Summer 2014, Jan de Wit en Zonen B.V. has put a new flower bulb case into use. This case was developed together with Van der Windt Packaging Solutions and Services (Honselersdijk). The new case is almost 300 grams lighter than the previous case, which results in reduced environmental pollution...