RETAIL NEWSLETTER
No. 19, 4 April 2007
Nederlandse versie
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Dear readers, winter is gone let the summer begin!
There was just enough snow this winter to make some nice pictures, see below.
Further we want to inform you about the new arrivals of the last months and some new introductions.

Spring offer! Free delivery in the Netherlands during the months March-June for orders over€ 150,00 (excl. the Frisian Islands).

Opening hours: in the Eastern weekend we are open on Friday, Saturday and Monday.

 

Yucca faxoniana

 

This unique specimen with 11 heads welcomes you at the entrance if you come to visit us. There is a lot going on right there! We are working on a new 1200 m2 parking lot and in a couple of months we are going to build an additional 2500 m2 glass greenhouse with a height of 6 m, so bear with us, sorry for the mud...!
Many other exclusive specimen available

Only to be seen at the famous Tropical Centre.. The true Yucca nursery...

 

Dasylirion

Dasylirion serratifolium:
Big specimens, 25-35 cm trunks € 295,00 and 35-45 cm trunks at € 350,00.
   

 

Agave

Agave striata rubra:
This rare variety is now also available! The red form of Agave striata!.At € 45,00.

Agave ferox:
Super size, big beautiful plants! at € 120,00
   


Palms

Chamaerops humilis, multiple trunks:
Big multi trunked specimens are available:
total height 230-250 cm and trunks up to 130 cm.€ 595,00.
   

Trachycarpus wagnerianus:

Some new sizes of our famous wagnerianus available:
Seedling 2 year: € 2,00
Trunk 5+ cm: € 10,00
Trunk 10+ cm: € 34,00
Trunk 30+ cm: pot 50 ltr: Total height 110 cm: € 150,00
Trunk 100 cm: pot 50 ltr: Total height 160 cm:€ 390,00
Trunk 130 cm: pot 50 ltr: Total height 190 cm: € 470,00

   

Brahea armata 40 cm: € 38,00
Butia capitata 70-80 cm: € 38,00
Butia eriospatha 70-80 cm: € 32,00
Chamaerops humulis cerifera, trunk
20 cm, total height 50-60 cm: € 65,00

 

Treeferns

Dicksonia antarctica:
Now also some smaller sizes available.
Dicksonia antarctica seedlings above: 3 year old in 3 ltr pots € 10,00.  

Dicksonia antarctica in 16 ltr. pots, just starting to form a trunk and with 150 cm crown diameter: € 40,00  

Todea barbara:
A new rare specie in our assortment.

Very rare in cultivation, a beautiful much wanted fern! Todea barbara is not really a treefern, but it does resemble Dicksonia antarctica. This fern forms a trunk up to 150 cm tall with multiple crowns with fronds up to 120 cm in length. The fronds look very different to D. Antarctica: the first thing you notice is the large size and the dark green glossy foliage. It originates from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. It is quite adaptable, cold hardy to about 15°F, -9°C and will tolerate a considerable range of climates, but of course, it needs moisture just like any fern.

Seedlings in 3ltr pot: € 10,00.
   

 

Accessoiries

Some new arrivals:

Available again, even bigger! Our hanging Bali lamp 70 cm high: € 70,00.
Let your garden come to live with these new Jungle statues. They look like the Teku statues from New Zealand, home to the Maori's. Left picture above € 125,00 and on the right € 75,00. Perfect with treeferns!

This super bum heavy wooden jungle statue is 275 cm high! Costs: € 445,00.

 

IPM Essen-Dubai

In January we were at the IPM Germany, the leading international fair of the horticultural sector. A week later there were some shots from our beautiful stand on the German television, Channel ZDF (National German television) in the program "Volle Kanne".

Also our products were presented in IPM Dubai through our local agent!
   
ZDF television  

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Trachycarpus princeps

As the biggest grower of the real Trachycarpus princeps we wanted to clear up some stories which circulate on several forums on the internet.
Till now there is only one true form of the Trachycarpus princeps palm! Difference in colour is just simply due to availability or lack of moisture. In their habitat in China, the moisture level is higher than in our green house, or outside in your garden. Beneath there is a photo of me watering the leaf, that explains it all.

The seedlings start to get their specific colour as they mature, mostly after the first divided leafs appaers.

In our garden: when the leafs get wet, they turn green.
At their natural habitat the stone gate in China

The real thing, with divided leafs € 35,00
In our garden

 

Import activities
Our visiting retail clients enjoy our enormous stock and variety of activities and products. There is always something new going on, so for the people who have no change to visit us, jere are just some pictures showing our wholesale activities. Did you know we sell each year thousands of Yucca's and palms and that we are the worlds biggest Mexican-Texas Yucca supplier!?!

Yucca rostrata, fresh import
Fresh import of Yucca thompsoniana

Freash import of Yucca rostrata and Dasylirion longissimum
Fresh import of Trachycarpus fortunei

Fresh import of Dicksonia antarctica and branched Yucca rigida
Dicksonia antartica
 Very rare, Dasylirion longgissimum with multiple heads a grasstree of Mexico

 

Encephalartos species

New arrivals, check out on our website:

  • encephalartos aemulans
  • altensteini
  • ferox
  • longifolius
  • manikensis
  • natalensis
  • princeps
  • transvenosus
  • trispinosus

Also available:

  • Dioon califanoi
  • Cycad tansachana
  • Cycad pectinata
  • Cycad petrea
 

Further we added a new Picture album to our photoalbum: a winter album with some nice winter photo's:
And soon we will add an album with some of the famous Tropical Centre plants we have had for sale, with specimens you have never seen before.

And remember our Spring offer! Free delivery in the Netherlands during the months March-June for orders above € 150,00 (excl. the Frisian Islands).

See you soon because we keep introducing more new plants!

Thanks for reading!
Roland en Sandra