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here at kokonov seven million bulbs are
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planted by hand
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in just three months spread across
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80 acres it's one of the world's largest
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spring flower gardens
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with 800 varieties of tulips that's a
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chew look there's a tulip yeah gardeners
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like owen carroll work year round to
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make sure these flowers impress
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they have to be perfect because people
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come over all over the whole world
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it takes millions of dollars and 40
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gardeners to create the dozens of
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designs for this flower garden
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and they bloom for only eight weeks so
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every day counts
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but last year because of covet 19 the
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gardens were closed to the public for
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the first time
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in 71 years we had no income at all in
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2020
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which was really a disaster for us we
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face the financial loss of between 5 and
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10 million euros
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knowing the lockdown was likely again
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this year coconut had to make a choice
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plant everything as usual or play it
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safe and plant a more modest garden
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they decided to take the risk but this
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year's opening has already been delayed
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by several weeks
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we make costs during the entire year 12
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months of a year
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and we only make money in eight weeks
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with the clock already ticking
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will these efforts be for nothing
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kokonov is located in lisa netherlands
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and roughly translates to kitchen garden
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owen has been working at coconut for 33
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years and he's pretty much a tulip
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expert
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i didn't see much flowers when i came
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here first now
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i knew where the daffodil was not a
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tulip
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every season begins by tearing last
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year's bulbs out of the ground
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they'll be composted and used as
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fertilizer for your own garden you can
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leave in the ground now if you leave in
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the ground
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for three or four years the flower is
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going to be smaller and smaller and
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smaller
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you won't get the 70 quality as you're
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putting new bulbs so that's the whole
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idea
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harvesting 7 million bulbs is no easy
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task and it's definitely not quick
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it takes the gardeners almost two months
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this is where the creative stuff happens
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meanwhile designers like franz get to
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work
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i do this by hand and then i put it in a
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computer it takes him about four months
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to get dozens of designs from draft to
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final
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each of the 800 different varieties of
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tulip in this year's show
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was hand selected based on its quality
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and color the designs are finalized by
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early summer
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and then the orders are sent out to bulb
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growers
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meanwhile gardeners use franz's map to
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measure and mark the boundaries
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to prepare the garden in late summer the
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millions of bulbs brands ordered arrive
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they're then sorted by color shape and
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variety and checked for size and
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firmness
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each bag will be assigned a number that
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corresponds to a plot
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and type of bowl to ensure the gardeners
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make no mistakes
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preparation is everything if the
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preparation isn't good the result won't
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be good also
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when october hits it's time to plant
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everybody gets his own spade this is the
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most important tool in the gardener's
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toolbox
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i've gotten nearly 25 years just like my
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second marriage
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the tulip is a beautiful but short-lived
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flower lasting only about a week and a
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half
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so to keep the gardens flowering all
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eight weeks of the season the gardeners
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use a technique called the lasagna
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method
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where they stagger early and late
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blooming bulbs the late bloomers are
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planted first and deeper and they arrive
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in may
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the middle row blooms around april and
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the crocuses are on top since they
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blossom in march
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if you pay moon you want to see your
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flowers so that's why we plant
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in different layers late flowers early
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flowers and crocuses
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all of the planting here is done
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entirely by hand
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a machine cannot plant shapes like this
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a machine cannot plant in layers
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and a machine cannot plant mixtures
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every day
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cold rain doesn't matter it's just a lot
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of work
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there's no problem
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the dutch climate is perfect for tulips
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not too hot and with winters just cold
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enough to trigger an important
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biochemical process
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needed for the tulips to bloom properly
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when the soil temperature is below 55
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degrees
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it breaks down starches and
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carbohydrates in the bulb to form
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glucose
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glucose is less likely to freeze than
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water and helps the bulb withstand
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colder temperatures
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then when the temperature rises the
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glucose becomes an energy source that
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helps the flower bloom
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for ideal growth that should stay cold
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for around 12 to 14 weeks
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tulips originated in the central plains
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of asia and were a favorite flower of
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the ottoman empire before being imported
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to the netherlands
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around 400 years ago it's a time of
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rembrandt vermeer
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famous dutch painters and the prices of
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tudor bulbs they go
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sky high one of the canal houses was
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sold for three chula bulbs which is
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nowadays of course impossible to
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understand the dutch were basically
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trading in tulip futures
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speculating the price would go higher
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and higher and then at one time
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people started to realize that it was
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gone up a little bit too high like the
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bubbles that we have now in economy
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and the prices went down and that's what
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we call the two pomegranates and then
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100 years ago the first real
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professional
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tulip growers created their farms here
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in this surrounding
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now almost every tool flower you see
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around the world has its origins here in
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the netherlands
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and that's pretty big business the floor
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industry in the netherlands is about
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6 billion euros in the flower build
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industry it's about 700 800
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million euros a year since tulips are
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generally grown from a bulb not a seed
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they take patience to propagate and
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creating enough bulbs to introduce a new
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variety can take 20 years
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you can see some of them on display here
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at kokonov's greenhouse pavilion
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the grower brought it to copenhagen to
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show to the audience
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new tulips aren't just named they're
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baptized
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as soon as someone wants to baptize it
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there will be a ceremony with a lot of
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champagne
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and the big certificate and then the
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chile will be registered to its new name
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there are about 6 500 tulip varieties
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and each is registered at the royal
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general bulb growers association
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it's from the darwin hybrid group and
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it's called
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momotaro yes no clue what it means but
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an old traditional small tulip and it's
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called quebec
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this one's called nay cliche it's very
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pointy
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the color changes it starts yellow and
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at the end it's red
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leading up to the opening things get
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pretty stressful here as everyone works
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tirelessly to make sure things look
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perfect sometimes you see a little spot
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where something is mixed up
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a yellow one in a field of red tulips
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it's a disgrace for the
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for the guard it'll pick it away anyway
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this is a crocus from last year
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so
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we just keep them keeping tidy they had
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hoped to open on march 20th but with the
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netherlands still in lockdown
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opening day came and went with the park
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staying empty
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it's been hard for the people for
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instance gardeners that have been
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planting bulbs for three months been on
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their knees
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and there's no problem because that's
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their job they love it they also
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love to show what they've made to the
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public
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for now the rest of the world will have
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to wait and view coconut via virtual
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tour
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it's a very hard time we have to adjust
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of course as every company does
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but we will face it kokonov is an
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institute for the showcase of the floral
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industry in the netherlands
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it's a hard period of time but we will
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survive at least
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and we hope for a good 2022 because
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kokonov is still beautiful
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