From Canada to Lithuania, from the United States to France: Aalsmeer inadvertently misleads people with lavender flowers in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. They approach wholesale florist Hoven & De Mooij by asking if they can order the bulbs, but the bulbs that produce yellow and blue tulips are not present at all.
Shortly after the start of wholesale business at the beginning of March Posted on Facebook Including the yellow and blue tulip of Ukraine in the range, he receives a flood of requests and questions. Whether the lamps can be shipped to the United States, since the lamps can be purchased in Lithuania, and whether they can be purchased directly from the wholesaler.
The company had to say “no” so many times that they decided to give each comment the same answer: “These tulips are naturally white, once they are out of the bulb and picked, they get a special color treatment. We sell these flowers to flower exporters in Holland, so not direct to the shops abroad.
“Dutch people in general don’t like painted flowers”
Interested people are advised to ask the local florist to ask the supplier, who can then ask the source. “It’s a long slate,” emphasizes Peter Froe, director of relationships at Hoven & De Mooij. The ins and outs of special color processing are part of the blacksmith’s secret, but he is willing to tell someone else about the dyed flowers.
rainbow group
“It’s a natural product,” he says of the dyed flowers the company sells. In addition to tulips, these include roses and gerberas. As soon as they appear, they are picked and therefore the desired color treatment is followed. The company’s specialty is the rainbow group (see photo below). Is a dye injected into the flower? “That’s right, yes.”
Most of the dyed flowers the company sells find their way abroad. Among them is “a big customer in Germany,” says Frowe, where yellow and blue Ukrainian tulips are said to sell like hot cakes.
Keukenhof
Things are not going well in the Netherlands at the moment, in part because the florist on the corner has not yet offered them en masse. “The Dutch generally don’t like painted flowers,” says Frowe. ‘We note that the consumer [red. de Oekraïne-tulp] We want to have it, but we don’t sell to individuals.”
He sees this in Keukenhof, among other places, where this weeks wholesaler’s masterpiece will appear among another seven million flowers. “Consumers walk in there, and then you notice that they want to buy it.”
Stop
Sometimes it makes an exception. “Someone wanted to bring a big forest to a Ukrainian refugee in Ireland, and had to stop in Schiphol, so he decided to stop.”
