Besides our test greenhouse, we also plant part of our assortment outside in our test/show garden. Many of our bulbs are used for park planting and we try to mimic our customers' growing conditions as much as possible. Therefore we plant bulbs from lots that have been planted in parks in our own gar...

Spring is here, and that means that Keukenhof has opened its doors again! This year Keukenhof is open from 23 March to 14 May. We have been an official exhibitor of Keukenhof since 2008 and supply our bulbs every year for people from around the world to enjoy. Last autumn a total of 7 million bulbs ...

On Thursday 16 March 2023, we won the Deshima Business Award 2022 in the 'Well Established' category. Director Jan de Wit attended the ceremony at the Okura Hotel in Tokyo and accepted the award on behalf of our company. The award – a Delft blue plate – was presented by Liesje Schreinemacher, Du...

We are glad to inform you that our very own Tulip Trade Show will take place at our company from Wednesday, 15 March up to and including Friday, 17 March, 2023. The official Tulip Trade Event (TTE) will take place again next year, but in the meantime you can still enjoy the beauty of tulips at our c...

On Thursday 23 February, almost all our staff visited two companies. In the morning, we visited Van Egmond Substrates in Amsterdam. This company supplies potting soil for packing the lily bulbs to us. It was very interesting to see how the soil arrived by ship via the North Sea Canal and was mixed a...

These past few weeks it has not only been busy under the roof, but also on the roof. Major steps are currently being taken towards sustainability, with the installation of 1,400 solar panels. If everything goes according to plan, we will be able to enjoy the first solar energy in our company from mi...

We are participating in the Floriade Expo 2022 and have our own tulip section at the entrance! Floriade is a world horticultural exhibition that takes place in the Netherlands only once every 10 years. We have participated in all 6 previous editions of the Floriade and therefore we partipate in the ...

Two weeks ago we celebrated the 100th anniversary of our company with a special party. A party with several surprises, such as the presentation of our anniversary book ‘100 years - The fellows of Jan de Wit’. This book describes the history of our company during the past 100 years as well as the...

We are proud to announce that on April 4th, 2022, the tulip “Maitri“ was baptised by the Hon’ble President of India H.E. Mr Ram Nath Kovind and the first lady Mrs Savita Kovind. The name-giving ceremony was held at Keukenhof in honour of 75 years of friendship and collaboration between India a...

Last Friday we were honoured to receive the honorary title ‘By Appointment to the Court of the Netherlands’. His Majesty King Willem-Alexander himself has decided to grant our company this title and the right to display the Royal Coat of Arms accompanied by the phrase ‘By Appointment to the Co...

It is spring in the Netherlands, which means that it is time to remove the plastic from our tulip fields. Last autumn we showed you the preparations for covering our tulip fields with plastic and explained why we cover them. Yesterday we started to take off the plastic from our tulip fields, in o...

Last Friday we celebrated our 100th anniversary with a party, during which we performed a spectacular baptism of the double tulip ‘White Centennial’ in honour of our anniversary. ‘White’ refers to both the colour of the tulip as well as our last name ‘De Wit’, which literally translates ...

Last Friday we were busy with the preparations for the Floriade Expo 2022 in Almere. The Floriade is a world horticultural exhibition that takes place in the Netherlands only once every 10 years. We have participated since the first edition in 1962, where we met our first Asian client and we have pa...

The Dutch measures against COVID-19 have mostly been lifted and therefore the Tulip Trade Event can fortunately still take place in 2022. From Wednesday, March 23rd up to and including Friday, March 25th we will open our doors daily with a beautiful flower show. Professional visitors from the fl...

In 2022 Jan de Wit en Zonen B.V. celebrates its 100th anniversary! In 1922 our founder Jan de Wit started growing vegetables and potatoes, but in 1925 he started to grow tulips as well. The tulip business became a success and flower bulbs quickly became the sole focus of the company. We are prou...