Meet the Dutch 'lilac specialist'
At the moment they have 16 varieties of this special cut flower and from every variety they have between the 20 – 5000 shrubs. The main colours are in the spectrum of white, lila and pink. The availability of the varieties depends on the amount of shrubs.
To make the calculation complete: they have in total 50,000 shrubs; 25,000 shrubs of those are available at the greenhouse every year to produce flowers.
The Lilacs are grown in a very special way. A shrub produces flowers once every two years. That means that you can only harvest from 25,000 shrubs each year.
The shrubs are on an ‘island’ on the waters in Aalsmeer in the summer. The one year that they aren’t producing flowers, they are resting. The other year they will be transferred to greenhouse where they stay from October till February.
Depending on the variety they are three weeks in the greenhouse in the early season (October) or later in the season (till February). The first week of these three weeks in the greenhouse they are under very high temperatures to force the flowers to grow.
For more information:
G-fresh
Prunus 22
1424 LD De Kwakel
+31 297 233 999
sales@g-fresh.nl
www.g-fresh.nl