Onings Holland Flowerbulbs

24/09/2026

The end of tulip season 🌷

The last tulip bulbs are leaving our cold stores these days. Soon, the next season will begin.

This year our bulbs travel the world once again: to Japan, China, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Vietnam. Most of them go to professional landscaping projects, the rest to flower growers or garden centres, where consumers use the bulbs to fill their gardens with color again.

This year we supplied beautiful varieties once more, with Cheerleader and Dreamer as this season's toppers, alongside strong demand for our mini and species tulips and muscari (also known as grape hyacinths).

We will also send a selection of bulbs to Keukenhof again: new and special varieties for the Willem-Alexander pavilion, and amazing combinations of flowerbulbs for our field in front of the Oranje-Nassau pavilion. The bulbs will be planted in October and will bloom from late March to mid-May when the Keukenhof is open to the public.

"Every year we're curious whether our promotion has made a difference for our customers," says Henk van Voorbergen, tulip buyer at Onings. "This year we brought out a brochure featuring mini tulips and muscari. That fine, detailed work, with lovely colors and varieties at very affordable prices, has definitely generated plenty of demand from customers worldwide."

We can't wait to see how our bulbs brighten up landscapes and gardens again after the winter.

16/09/2026

The Lily League® top 50 brings together the lily varieties that the industry itself voted most popular right now — every one of them a genuine front-runner. Over the coming months, we're placing a number of them in the spotlight, starting with two names from the list: Liber Snow (No. 50) and Scansano (No. 49).

Liber Snow is a pollen-free white oriental with a refined, pure look — exactly what florists reach for when purity is priority.

Scansano is the working horse among all white LA-hybrids — quick, efficient and very rich in flowers.

14/09/2026

𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗥𝗼𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗿, 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 🌏
Four times a year, Rodger packs his bags for China. Not for the sights (though we hear the food helps, more on that later). He goes to sit down with our customers there, tour the growing locations, and catch up face to face, in fluent Mandarin, no translator needed.

At Onings, visiting your customers in person has always been part of the job. It's not just Rodger, our whole sales team travels regularly to see their customers, wherever in the world they are. That relationship has always mattered to us.

This trip took him to Kunming first, walking the fields with local growers and spotting a whole range of new varieties along the way. A great way to keep track of what's developing on the ground.

One detail that might catch your eye: those netted buds you see in one of the photos. "𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘴," Rodger explains. "𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘥𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘣𝘶𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵."

From there, on to an area where lilies are grown for something rather different: food. The scales are taken from the bulb, washed, cooked and prepared into a dish that's becoming a real trend in China, and one worth keeping an eye on (swipe all the way to the last photo if you don't believe us).

One more thing that might surprise you: in Asia, a big chunk of business happens through social media. Think TikTok, think WeChat. Rodger is active there too, chatting with customers between visits.

Bit by bit, these trips make it easier to say what's really going on, and to help each other find a way through.

04/09/2026

𝗟𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲® 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿'𝘀 𝟱𝟬 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀

After weeks of voting by growers, exporters, florists and other professionals from the international ornamental horticulture sector, the full Top 50 is now confirmed — a snapshot of which lily varieties are valued most, right now, across the world.

Over the coming months, we'll be placing a number of these varieties in the spotlight, one by one.

Explore the Lily League Top 50 via: https://onings.com/lily-league-top-50-2026/lily-league-2026-confirms-growth-of-double-flowered-lilies/?lang=en

21/08/2026

🌷 Behind the scenes at Onings: the ethylene meter in action.

We're in the middle of tulip processing season, with our cold stores running at full capacity. To keep a close eye on bulb quality, we use our new ethylene meter every day. In this video, our colleague Niels shows how it works: he wheels the mobile measuring unit into the storage cell and starts the reading.

What does it do? It continuously measures the concentration of ethylene gas in the cell. This gas is released by diseased or 'sour' bulbs and can damage healthy bulbs even at very low concentrations (from just 100 ppb), causing flower bud blasting or excessive splitting. As soon as the meter picks up a rise, we increase ventilation to stop further ethylene build-up.

This way we keep a close watch on the harvest and can act immediately if 'sour disease' breaks out. What gets measured, gets managed
— and it helps us prevent damage, for the best possible quality of our tulip bulbs.

09/07/2026

Met trots maken we bekend dat Onings Holland vanaf oogstseizoen 2026 officieel verkooppartner is van de ranonkels en anemonen van Biancheri Creazioni voor de Nederlandse markt.

Wat begon als een succesvolle samenwerking in Amerika, Canada en het Verenigd Koninkrijk, krijgt nu een vervolg dichter bij huis. Daarmee breiden we ons assortiment verder uit met innovatieve productlijnen zoals Elegance®, Cloni Success®, Natura Moderna®, Mistral® en Levante®.

We kijken uit naar een mooie toekomst waarin we Nederlandse kwekers kunnen voorzien van de kwaliteit en innovatie waar Biancheri internationaal om bekendstaat.

Lees het volledige nieuwsbericht op onze website:

Familiebedrijven breiden succesvolle internationale samenwerking uit naar de Nederlandse markt Poeldijk, juli 2026 – Onings Holland wordt verkooppartner van ...

06/07/2026

The 2026 lily trial results are now live! 🌐

The results of the trials that were displayed during the Dutch Lily Days can be found in our lily database: https://onings.com/?s=&genus=lelie. By clicking on one of the varieties, the new test results are on the right side of the page (if tested in 2026).

Dutch Lily Days are built around rigorous quality checks. Each trial uses a 30-bulb sample representing a lot received last winter after harvest. Samples are evaluated on metrics like bud count, stem length, forcing time, and disease presence. The average results per variety can now be checked on your computer or mobile phone. 💻️ 📱

01/07/2026

Working with lilies is both challenging and rewarding! 💐

Every year we invite the students from Flower Styling & Events MBO Westland to design arrangements for the Dutch Lily Day with lilies from our test greenhouse.

Lilies can be delicate in bloom, and working with fresh stems means picturing the finished piece before it fully opens. Still, they bring arrangements to life and naturally become the showstoppers. That’s why it’s so valuable for our students to get hands-on time with them. 👩‍🏭

Pictures by Myrthe Slootjes Photography & Styling

08/06/2026

Meanwhile in New Zealand... 🇳🇿

The harvest of the lily bulbs is taking serious proportions. After we started harvesting small size bulbs, we have now also harvested the first commercial sizes.

The crop is looking really well. We have experienced very little difficulties during the growing season. The quality is expected to be really good 🥇

Contact us for more information about our New Zealand harvest ([email protected])

05/06/2026

Sjoerd Onings about the Dutch Lily Days in an interview with Thursd: "This is where we can really show how versatile the lily is."

Read more: https://thursd.com/posts/onings-dutch-lily-days

Thursd.
Dutch Lily Days

Stepping straight into the world behind the lily during Dutch Lily Days.