FLORAHOLLAND, 6 April 2011 (press release) — The semi-finals took place last week in the running for the FloraHolland Award De Glazen Tulp (Glass Tulip) 2011. The ten-member professional jury assembled in the FloraHolland Naaldwijk boardroom to select 20 finalists from among the 43 nominees. This professional jury included members from Javado, Fleura/Metz, Zyon Group BV, Agora-Group, Natural Styling, and Life and Garden.
Five products from each category were put through to the final. These finalists are, by category:
Indoor Plants:
1. Hippeastrum Double Diamond Grp — ‘Alfresco’. Supplier: Fa L.G. Vreugdenhil & Zn from ’s Gravenzande.
2. Zantedeschia ‘Odessa’. Suppliers: various, including Dynaplant BV from De Lier, and Fa L.G. Vreugdenhil & Zn from ’s Gravenzande.
3. Chrysanthemum indicum Grp ‘Splash Meadow’. Supplier: Gebr. Nederpel from Wateringen.
4. Begonia (Elatior Group) — double-flowered ‘Grace’. Supplier: J.&.P. ten Have BV from Maasland.
5. Aloe ‘Tiki Tahi’. Supplier: Tikiplant from Monster.
Outdoor Plants:
1. Felicia amelloides ‘Felicitara Blue’. Supplier: Kwekerij W & A de Rijke from Poeldijk.
2. Lilium formosanum ‘White Crane’. Supplier: Kwekerij Tass from Wateringen.
3. Campanula portenschlagiana ‘Addenda Blue Planet’. Suppliers: R.C Kuivenhoven from Poeldijk and Kwekerij Montis from Moerkapelle.
4. Gerbera ‘Garvinea’. Suppliers: F.N. Kempen BV from Mijdrecht and Van Lint BV from Boskoop.
5. Dicentra ‘Burning Hearts’. Supplier: V.O.F. G.C. van Woudenberg from Zevenhuizen.
Cut flowers:
1. Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Spike’. Suppliers: Pieter Kolk from Aalsmeer, Ko Kolk from Amstelveen and Sonneveld Hydrangea from Bleiswijk.
2. Echinacea purpurea ‘Green Jewel’. Supplier: H.J. de Boer E.A. from Hillegom.
3. Rosa (large-flowered) ‘White Naomi!’ Suppliers: Mermin Roses from Amstelveen, Roseworld from De Lier and Velden Roses from Wateringen.
4. Pulsatilla vulgaris ‘Alba’. Supplier: Jac.M. van Schagen from Heerhugowaard.
5. Lilium (Oriental Group) ‘Paradero’. Suppliers: De Jong Flowers BV from Ter Aar, Firma J. Boon & Zn. from ’s Gravenzande, and Fa. Gebr. Koper from Heemskerk.
Concepts:
1. Phalaenopsis ‘Royal Blue’ from the Royal Family. Supplier: Geest Orchideeën from De Lier.
2. Phalaenopsis ‘Singolo’. Supplier: Opti-flor B.V. from Monster
3. Vanda ‘Touch of Nature’. Supplier: Handelskwekerij L. vd Weijden BV from Kudelstaart.
4. Rosa ‘Bellisima’. Supplier: Vireo- H.P.D. Potplanten VOF from De Kwakel.
5. Human Green Orchids. Supplier: Wooning Orchids from Bleiswijk.
Final at Floating Greenhouse on 28 April
The final will be held at the Floating Greenhouse in Naaldwijk on 28 April, with the finalists presenting their creations to a distinguished jury chaired by Rob Verlinden. The results will be announced on 26 May 2011, when the FloraHolland Glazen Tulp Awards will be presented to the winners at a location suitable to the occasion.
New voting methods for FloraHolland Glazen Tulp Award
Every year, FloraHolland presents growers and breeders with a Glazen Tulp for each of four categories. The Glazen Tulp is the floriculture sector’s most prestigious award, given by FloraHolland for the best market introduction of the year. The winners are nominated and selected from among the hundreds of new cultivars and concepts introduced to auction each year. Until now, the juries deciding the nominations and winners have been largely made up of professionals and the public, with the trade also represented in the professional jury. But this time, buyers and sellers, too, have been able to lend their own weight of influence by indicating from the outset which products in each of the four categories were their favorites.
Florists, retailers and garden centers are always on the lookout for innovations to entice customers. Buyers and sellers with export firms, traders and wholesalers are at the heart of the floriculture chain: thanks to the daily exposure they have to the market, they are in a good position to indicate which novelty has been the year's most successful novelty product or concept.
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