Limited price pressure
"Spring got off to a late start, but thanks to high temperatures at the end of April and the beginning of May, that soon was caught up. The harvest from the Dutch tunnels at the beginning of May coincided with the supply from abroad. That caused some pressure on the prices, but because the peak coincided with Mother's Day, it was not so bad," Jack says.
After Mother's Day, the hours of sunshine increased and the temperatures also rose during the night. The covered cultivation smoothly proceeded into open field cultivation. Then it got really busy. "You want to cut the peonies at the right maturity. Normally you do your round through the field once a day, now we could do that three times. It went very fast."
The popular Sarah Bernard
Pampering
The busy times are over, but there is certainly no time to idle at the peony nursery in Brabant. "The rest of the year we do our very best to pamper the plants as much as possible," Jack tells us. "We clear the fields of weeds and give the plants sufficient nutrients. Especially now that the weather is warm, we ensure that the plants get enough water. All so that the plants put all the energy into the roots. We hope that next year they can produce top quality peonies again."
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