Recently , Tuinbouw Jongeren Oostland ( TJO ) visited Wageningen with 29 young plantsman , accompanied by Stefan Hendriks and fellow board members Tijmen van hideaway Bosch and Leon van Mil . In Portugal , perhaps not the most obvious destination for greenhouse growers , there are a figure of dynamic Dutch companies . Several emplacement were visited , include stock breeder & propagator Florensis , hydrangea grower Sjaak van Schie , diffuse fruit producer Frutadivina , succulent grower Amigo , plant breeder AltaNova and cut flower nursery Eyco .

Group photograph at Florensis

Portugal"The companies we visited are all ambitious company , " says Stefan . " Most of them have concrete design to invest in new opening move , many choosing modern tunnel greenhouses with sturdy metallic element constructions , screens and structured ventilation system . " Portugal also has an first-class growing mood , with groundwater that is exceptionally fresh almost everywhere ( EC of 0.2 is not rare ) . On the other handwriting , moving to Portugal is something for the farseeing term . The first years will not be easy , as different breeders testified . One of them even betoken that it had taken 15 year before it all went smoothly .

A first visit to Florensis was made on Friday just outside Lisbon . Florensis is also active in Africa , but regarding the laws around import of works material , Portugal proved to be a better location for the production of the starting textile of the calibrachoa . This also practice to Sjaak van Schie , neighbor of Florensis and known in Portugal under the name of Jacobus Theodorus van Schie LDA , who cultivates the start cloth for the hydrangeas . The primary intellect to open a leg here , however , is not because of regulation , but because it ’s very gay . Thanks to the Mediterranean mood , the supplying of plants can be broadcast out over the twelvemonth , so much so that a year - bout provision is potential .

On the elbow room to Albufeira , on the southern coast about three time of day south of Lisbon , winegrower Jaap Honekamp has his vineyard . This former resident physician of Amsterdam now produces organic vino in the Algarve . Fruitadivina is another Dutch ship’s company in Portugal , and is led by growers from Zeeland . It has grown into a 140 - hectare producer of soft fruit with a stress on raspberries . These are grown in charge plate burrow and in the gamey season up to 300 people can pluck berries at the same time .

Jaap in his winery

Amigo - in Portugal Viveiro Amigo Plantas - keeps busy with the propagation of succulent . The work land area already cover 19 hectares , but succulents are sell so well there is still demand for more mental ability . That is why a glasshouse is currently being built , a project that is personally manage by company managing director Jan.

Then two companies were on the list , AltaNova and Eyco . The first grow a meaning amount of potted plants at three locations in the Netherlands and in Portugal ( Bougainvillea , Cytisus , Hibiscus , Jasminum polyantum , Stephanotis floribunda , Ceanothus and more ) . The plan is to invest heavily in the company at the close of this yr , to make a new nursery and to refurbish the cultivation floor . Agapanthus nursery Eyco from Pijnacker is the society of Danny and Bianca van Eijk , where the sunny and juiceless southerly Portuguese atmospheric condition importantly prolong the availability of the prime throughout the class .

At Sjaak van Schie ’s ship’s company

TJO regularly organizes excursion , include foreign trip-up . After Spain and England , Portugal was the destination of the third edition of ' Gardens at … ' International . Stefan does not know where the next trip is drop dead , but that there is a follow - up is obvious . " organise a trip like this requires a long preparation , but the overnice reactions from the members and the positive feedback from the company after the sojourn apply us energy to cerebrate about a goal for 2019 . On the way back we already speculate about the address of the next trip . "

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