Horticulture in Holland

Dutch Design: greenhouse project (Kubo) Westland area

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Flower message wall at the Buga Koblenz Germany

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Only one florist in Venice?

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One of my favorites: Rosa Natura at Flormart Italy

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Lawn mower race at Flormart Padova Italy

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Home grown fresh veggies at private garden

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Also footballclubs use greenhouse technology in the Westland area

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Nice greenhouse technology at Westland area (De Lier)

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My office at Aalsmeer Holland

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Horti Fair TV reporter @work

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Fabulous new Medinella plant

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Horti Fair press preview

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Second largest auction in the world: hypermodern Plantion in Holland

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Ranking the grower party at the dutch beach

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Floral iglo at IPM flower show Moscow

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No visitors at one of the three parallel floral shows Moscow (Manage building)

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Nice piece of floral art in Moscow

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Holland pavilion at Expo Flora Moscow

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Allmost fresh fruit at streetmarket Moscow

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Nice presentation at Plantarium show Boskoop Holland

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Green Wall at RAI Amsterdam

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Train station Liege Belgium has greenhouse simitry

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Low tech at Ohio Short Course greenhouse tour

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Retailer Albert Heijn plant bonus discounts

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Helicopterview Westland greenhouse

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Floating lettuce: simple, intelligent and sustainable system

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Patio cyclamen in gardencentre

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Gardencentre or Ikea?

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Reconstruction Greenport Westland

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Stawberry serve-yourselve in the Westland area (great taste!)

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Where are the veggies at Zwetheul Restaurant (one Michelin star)?

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Diner with minister of foreign affairs Maxime Verhagen

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Flower Trials at home

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Succesful Bloei flowershop at picturesque Maasland

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Fabulous Anco Orchids (Vanda)

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Schoneveld Breeding at the IPM

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Blom Atelier: Creative, high value, minmal input

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Amazing what Blom Atelier realizes. Just a few high quality flowers, some organic material and a lot of creativity result in a high customer value.

Koppert Cress micro vegs under LED light

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Ernie en Bidet bij opening tentoonstelling gallery Ritsart Maassluis

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Rosa Natura at FloraHolland Trade Fair

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Top quality Red Naomi! roses ecologically grown.

Greenkeeper at floral Trade Fair

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Over the top or not?

Griffioen Nurseries at FloraHolland Trade Fair

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Beautiful Cyclamen Jive from Schoneveld Breeding. The fifties stylished booth almost a pricewinner at the exhibition.

Fairytale Campanula at floral Trade Fair

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Campanula, everything you can see and touch.

Les roses de Picardie

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Crowdy International Horti Fair

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FloraHolland samplevan: re-invented traditional salesmethod is stil effective

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Dutch retailer point of sale

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Gardencentre in Delft: nice but no buyers at 2 pm saturday

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Temporary art?

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Westland Event at Sion Orchids

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Campanula Addenda

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Schoneveld Super Series Jive: soon at Dutch television

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Cash&Carry sales at Waterdrinker Aalsmeer: Let's dance? Jive cyclamen

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Fabulous vaulted cyclamen (Schoneveld Breeding) at the Wateterdrinker cash-carry

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Strawberry selveservice in the Westland area

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Delicious strawberry at a selve service point of sale.

Flowers at a fuelstation

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Rosa Natura at the flower auction FloraHolland

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Rosa Natura and ecological conscious roses

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Flower Trials at Beekenkamp Breeding

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Flower Trials at Syngenta Seeds

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Flower Trials at Syngenta Seeds

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Oriental Group: double layer plant production

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Plants, floristry

Dutch greenhouse architecture

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Floral barcode diversity

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The diversity in floral barcodes is enormous. The standardisation organisation Florecom focusses on practical solutions. The aim is to link the several worlds like growers, traders, auctions and retail.

Nice Ficus plant

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Bundling Ficus stems results in remarkable nice plant. Just about 25 cm high in a 9 cm pot. Produced by Bunnik Plants.

View from my office

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What else?

Green Event Centre by Bunnik Plants

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Improvement Centre Holland

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The Improvement Centre in Bleiswijk -Holland- fullfils the role as development centre for new growth methods. Principles are growers associations, international seed companies and technological suppliers. The wageningen university is focussing on strategic research and Improvement Centre fits these new developments into the real world.

Roses and high speed trains

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Rose greenhouse. Picture taken from the new high speed railtrack Amsterdam to Paris.

Extra long truck (25 meters) fulled with roses

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TiSento kalanchoe van Zuydgeest De Lier

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Patio4Seasons Table garden at the Trade Fair

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The Horti-Hotel: fully controlled planthgrowth

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View at dutch growers exhibition

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Florecom at dutch Growers exhibition

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secretary foreign affairs at VNO-NCW congres

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Villa Rosa with the Red Naomi roses

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Spotted at the FloraHolland flowerauction

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Impression IPM Essen Germany Horticultural exibition

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Superb Patio Cyclamen from Presikhaaf nurseries

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Bad quality Viola at garden centre Staelduinse Bos in Vlaardingen

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Dissapointing bad quality as result of lack of attention in the garden centre. How to influence this as growers?

Primula obconica Touch Me from Schoneveld Breeding

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The very nice and no-itching variety Primula obconica form Schoneveld Breeding Holland. Good genetics and good floralmarketing. Picture was taken at FloraHolland PlantPlaza Naaldwijk.

Too small orchid at too high price

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Fits into your hand. Price-quality ratio is totally wrong. I am wondering who will buy this. We bought cyclamen and clivia plants. Beautifull flowering.

Anco orchids at home

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Anco orchids at the gardencentre Groenrijk in the Westland area

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Ultra modern greenhouse based on the Royal London Botanical Gardens. Total coverage is 12 hectare production and 2 hectare distribution and affices. Specialized in breeding and production of anthuriums.

VNO-NCW presentation at Anthura

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The entrepreneur organisation VNO-NCW organized the anual member meeting at Anthura, one of worlds largest anthurium breeders. The greenhouse was inspired by the Royal London Botanical Gardens. The curved walls are strong, efficient ans also very beautiful from architectural point of view.

Anthura super modern greenhouse with curved walls

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Lovely anthuriums

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VNO-NCW tour at Anthura

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Grodan symposium: Modern solutions for modern challanges

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The Grodan symposium 'Modern solutions, modern challanges' was attented by an interesting audience. The high lights, my remarkts and suggestions are:
• Invest in consumer data and less in technological development
• Get in touch with their emotions and mindset.
• Introduce passion in marketing but also in the daily production business.
• Stop thinking that The Netherlands are frontrunner in sustainability issues.
• Talk with supermarkets -as was suggested- regarding earning more money is a waste of time.
• High tech greenhouse but low tech offices: what to do about that?
• The commodity trap is reality in fresh produce as wel in floristry.
• Industrialize the chain is the advice or be different (look beyond the product).
• Product innovation costs too much time in crisis times, so don't do that.
• A niche strategy seems interesting but followers will commiditize the niche too soon.
Most interesting quote from Berenschot: "Horticulture will be the supplier of Vion".

Sustainable landscape and economic developments

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The Hof van Delflandraad is a co-opration between local and regional governamental organizations. The goal is to join forces in order to develop the beautiful country between Delft and Rotterdam. Development means with a sustainable perspective and with a close collaboration with entrepreneurs.

Beautiful Vanda orchids

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Realy beautiful Vanda Orchids. Difficult to grow and a great pleasure to market (and buy).

Fully automated greenhouse

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No manual labour in this greenhouse. This fully automated robotcar picks up tables with the plants from th greenhouse and transports it to the logistic area.

Transparant chains with TeleFlower Auction (TFA)

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Magic Priva computer

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Crowded at Horti Fair House of Software

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Anco Orchideën op FloraHolland Trade Fair

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Horti-Fair House of Software: Interaction with the government

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