Last year , it was too dark and too frigid in the run - up to Mother ’s Day , but all the signs were with child this year . Mirjan Dictus of Dictus Flowers was capable to cut the first peonies the weekend before Mother ’s Day . So , just in time for this holiday , which is an of import one for the Dutch company : many of the flowers are sold via the home efflorescence machine .
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Quality"I am not just saying this because they are our flowers , but this class they are really beautiful , " says Mirjan . " The weather has been constant for the retiring few weeks , so growth has been dear . The buds are strong and beautiful , and there is hardly any hurt . We do n’t have such great conditions every year . "
paeony , sunflower , and thistles have been turn at the company in Zundert , Brabant , for a few year now , an addition to the household ’s tree baby’s room . culture is not only on the acclivity in Brabant : peony planting are develop all over the Netherlands . " It is a straight seasonal mathematical product and a very popular flush , so that does not storm me . Here too , in the week before we can abbreviate the peonies , we are often asked when they will be available again . "
Local salesLocal sale are crucial for Dictus Flowers . Especially at the start of the season , all production is sell via their own hawking auto and to local florist shop and farm shops , as case-by-case stem and as mixed bouquets . This twelvemonth , for the first time , orders can also be place online and then collected . " The price at the auction sale is a raft higher at the offset of the time of year than further on , but we think it is important to serve our local customers first . We have a lot of dealings from the neighborhood : from Rijsbergen , but the great unwashed also come from Belgium and Breda for the peonies . "
other cultivationTo mark Mother ’s Day and the showtime of the season , the company has a special stalling with natural endowment items . " Precisely because the paeony is such a seasonal product and a dear flower , Mother ’s Day is an important day for us , " say Mirjan . Last year , they narrowly missed it . They are now considering bringing forrard the cultivation using a burrow . " The past few years , we have invested a mint in ordering to get the bent of arise peonies . It is a stubborn efflorescence : if you do not harvest it at the correct clock time , it will not flower . Precisely because we serve well many local customers , we need to be certain they will bloom . We also give a guarantee on that : no bloom , is money back . Expanding the nursery with a burrow also means a newfangled way of growing , so we did not do that immediately . Now the market and our company are more quick for it . "
The time of year hold out until the end of June . subsequently in the year , the company switches to get sunflowers and thistles .
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