CHRISTIAN KOLK

Tulips have always been central to my life. As a child I was already growing and selling tulips. After primary school, I focused on garden design and green advice and eventually followed the Garden and Landscape Design course at the HTUS Larenstein in Velp. This study meant there was less time for growing the tulips. From this moment on I started breeding tulips. The first crossing was made in 1996 and new crossings are then made every two years.


Three aspects are important to me:

    Good forcing properties (for flowers in winter). Special garden tulips. Distinctive shapes and colours. (By making 'impossible' crossings)

WHAT DOES KOLK TULIPS DO?


Breeding tulips is a very long and patient process. After making a cross between two different tulips, seeds are produced in the pistil. This seed is sown. The harvest after sowing are balls as large as a pinhead. Ultimately, it takes 4 to 5 years before the first flowers (color) are visible.

What do we have then? We then have a sphere with a number of small spheres. You understand that before there are enough bulbs to test or deliver, 8 years will soon have passed. Before the bulbs are made available for 'Your own tulip', various tests are carried out, such as;

Are the tulips suitable for cut flowers? Can the bulbs be stored well, are they disease-free? How are the bulbs growing and do they produce sufficient and clear flowering, etc.

If the bulbs pass all these selections, they will become visible on this site. The remaining orbs will be destroyed.

CAREFUL

BROAD KNOWLEDGE

REALISTIC

OVER 20 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

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