The flower trade of tulips is at a very sharp price level already from the start of the season. Last week a small recovery could be observed because of the increasing demand in connection with Valentine’s Day. Due to the wintery conditions the so called street trading does not sell any flowers. The expectation is a price improvement in the period towards Women’s Day on 8 March. The quality of the tulips can be called good. Because of the early season, more flowers have been brought to the auction than in other years.

The final planting prognosis has not yet been published but last autumn probably less tulips have been planted for bulb production. Varieties such as Yokohama and Monte Carlo show a considerable shrinkage in area. The tulips have been planted under good circumstances, but the period after planting has been very warm and dry, so that some growers had been forced to irrigate their lots to obtain  well rooted bulbs.  At this moment most of the lots are covered with a layer of snow and Holland is suffering by a strong frost period, so we are not sure how the tulips will get through the winter.

IFTF 2011

VWS has had a good show at the IFTF last week. Lots of visitors saw the new website and the Mobile App. Because of the well organized Hortiweek more visitors than before made the trip to Holland. The first Mobile Flower bulb App, which VWS has launched, is a great success. The first updates with the newest varieties will be done this week.

Also want to be up to date ? Download the App by scanning the code or click the download link.

The first installation will take a few minutes for downloading the complete data base. After that you will be updated in a split second.

(Android only at this moment)

New website for VWS:

VWS has launched an entire new website. A modern look with an easy navigation to the right products. As every visitor knows, the website of VWS contains lots of variety information and this has remained the same. The website is also compatible with all mobile devices.

Take a look at our refreshed websiteand convince yourself that VWS is your partner in business!

Mechanisation Exhibit Lisse 2012

From 10 till 13 January 2012 the 62nd edition of the Mechanisation Exhibit will be held in Lisse. VWS is also present at this exhibition like last year. If you would like to visit the exhibition please contact our sales departmentand plan your visit.

We also can provide you entrance tickets offered by us.

Our stand number is: 3A08

Visit VWS during the Hortiweek at the IFTF

Visit our stand C2-08 at the IFTF during the International Hortiweek and take a look at our new website, receive the product app and see lots of new flowerbulb products we show to you.

The newest varieties of lilium, tulip, gladiolus and iris will be showed and special offers will be made. So there will be more than one reason to visit our stand at the IFTF or our company during the Hortiweek.

(Click here for the online version of the newsletter)

Longiflorum

In France the last Longiflorum bulbs are being harvested. The harvest will be finished in week 38 which is the usual moment for this lily type. The harvest of the longiflorum bulbs in Holland will start in week 39/40. The first longiflorum bulbs are already delivered at the export companies and the quality of the French bulbs is excellent. The quality of the Dutch longiflorum bulbs will be somewhat less, since the growing season for longiflorum in Holland was not optimal.

Asiatic/LA

The bulbs are growing well. Some of the plants already start to die off, but the cultivation shows a good till normal bulb growth.

Oriental/OT

The plants are still reasonably green and most of them need to grow to a larger size. If the weather conditions remain normal the coming month, this will be no problem. However, a continuing problem is the strongly reduced harvest of 200 hectare of OT/oriental due to this spring’s frost, which heavily pressurizes the total yield. Specially because the damage is mainly noticed in the most demanded and already sold varieties, such as Robina, Conca d’Or, Sorbonne, Manissa, Donato and so on.

Cropnews Iris 2011

The harvest of the irisbulbs is almost starting again. The growing season has been very unsteady. Shortly after planting there was a long period of early frost.

In spring a normal crop appeared, even though it has been very dry during the growing season. Therefore the growers irrigated a lot, a normal harvest is expected.

The French iris bulbs are being harvested and so far it looks like a fairly normal harvest. The trade of irises is a little behind compared to last year.