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Spring is too beautiful to stop celebrating her in Autumn
Spring is too beautiful to stop celebrating her in Autumn
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... Read more...
Dreams Do Come True
Dreams Do Come True
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... Read more...
Let Me Teach You A Lesson
Let Me Teach You A Lesson
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... Read more...
The American Dream Remains A Dream
The American Dream Remains A Dream
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... Read more...
Summer Vacation… Or Not?
Summer Vacation… Or Not?
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,... Read more...
On Wednesdays We Do Laundry
On Wednesdays We Do Laundry
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... Read more...
Time
Time
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.... Read more...
Sorting bulbs at Olympic level
Sorting bulbs at Olympic level
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... Read more...
She really is the best!
She really is the best!
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... Read more...
Better Together
Better Together
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... Read more...
The Royal Treatment
The Royal Treatment
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... Read more...
Cucumber Times
Cucumber Times
In The Netherlands, we refer to the slow news season of the summer as ‘Komkommertijd’, literally translated ‘Cucumber Times’. When looking up how to correctly translate this, I got ‘silly... Read more...