Ronald Roest
NL: From primula to lupine to lavender to pumpkins
Kwekerij Roest has different offers every season, so each season is unique with its own products and related activities. It’s for a good reason that, "Color your season" is their matching slogan.
The nursery covers an area of 12 hectares, with a greenhouse where the cuttings are placed.
Kwekerij Roest is a real family business, now under the leadership of the third generation of the family Roest. The company started as a mixed farm with livestock and agriculture. Since the mid-1980s, they have also started shrubs for cut flower purposes and hydrangeas (Roest was one of the first to begin with hydrangeas). Since the 1990s the focus was on the cultivation of plants, which became increasingly extensive. In 2006 there has been a widening of varieties.
From March, Ronald Roest begins with the cultivation of Primula and Akelei, followed by Lupine, Delphinium and Salvia. For a number of months, the nursery became part of Addenda, the association for which Roest grows Hebe.
Lupines are the most cultivated species of all cultivated plants. Lupines are, like the most plants, grown from seed. The seed is grown in four stages in August, September, October and also one party in March. Partially outside, and partly in the greenhouse. In winter, the plants are cut to grow well later. With the growth they can go outside, the grower gives the plants a lot of space so that they get a nice thick plant. From the beginning of May, Lupine is available in 3 pot sizes.
In summer, Hebe's production is supplemented with Echinacea and Lavender. From the beginning of September, Roest opens its own regional store with over 120 types of pumpkins and pumpkin delicacies from their own kitchen. During the pumpkin season, various activities will be organized, such as the pumpkin fair in the first weekend of September. 5,000 to 6,000 people visit the fair each year, where they can buy 120 pumpkins varieties and stuff from the local market of about 60 stalls. The pumpkin season continues until Halloween, on October 31st.
In mid-October, the grower supplies forsythia which is available from Christmas. So far only in pot size 19 and pot size 23, but next year it is also available in pot 26.
A nice fact is that the breeder grows willows for animal farm Blijdorp, every week there will be a bus from the zoo to the nursery to pick up branches. The giraffes, elephants, rhinos, camels and the famous Bokito gorilla enjoy plenty of the branches.
source: OZ Export
Kwekerij Roest
Achterdijk 23
3237 LA Vierpolders
The Netherlands
M: 06-51853154
E: info@kwekerijroest.nl
www.kwekerijroest.nl