" At Marginpar , develop peak is something we do together . Together with our 5000 colleagues at 16 product locations , but also together with our breeders " , the company says .

You likely acknowledge that create a new flower accept a long time . And that many trials end in error . So you could probably also imagine the bliss that three of their breeders must have feel when they first saw their flowers in the field in Kenya last November . Jan Star ( BD Flowers ) , stock breeder of Sanguisorba Red Dream ® , and Gerard and Wim van Veen , stock breeder of Astilbe Vision in Pink and Inferno , joined Marginpar ’s Product Development Manager Bart Merkus on his misstep through Kenya & Zimbabwe .

Taking it to the next levelBart : " For a year now , we have been running a commercial-grade program of the Sanguisorba Red Dream . About time to convey architects of this variety to our production field of operations ! Jan did a great line sharing his cognition and experience with the team at the farm . His knowledge of propagating , arise , and harvest home these varieties will take us to the next level together ! We would therefore like to thank Jan once again for amount to Kenya .

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Jan : " It was very special to see the flower that I have bred growing and blooming under the African Lord’s Day ! I am also very impressed by the passion and dedication of the squad at KS Farm . We had some cracking conversations and really learned from each other . This was a very valuable visit for all parties . We are confident and excited about what is to come!“Translating African cultivationBart : " Can you guess work with a crop for most of your aliveness , only to find out that it behaves completely differently in Africa ? This materialise to our breeder Gerard & Wim van Veen this month in Kenya & Zimbabwe . The two brothers enthusiastically shared their experience from the Netherlands , the challenge being to translate them to African finish . We face back on a very pleasant and productive visit and would like to thank both gentlemen extensively for coming ! "

Wim : " It has been a very telling trip with heavy counsel from Bart and Arjan van Roessel . We have been working with Arjan since 2018 , improving the cultivation of Astilbe in Kenya . Now we get to see the progress in person and well understand the growing conditions . This allows us to keep think along , which we sure enough require to do ! " Gerard : " We are also very impressed by the exuberance of the team , the results they have realized , and the calibre of the flowers . We have late also pop grow Astilbe in Zimbabwe , where the growing circumstance are completely unlike . We have a capital journeying ahead of us ! "

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