With a day to go until Mother’s Day, the bouquets are again sold like hot sandwiches. NH also went on the hunt for a flower, but asking how great the worries about pesticides are after the alarming reports of recent times.
Arnoud Kos from Schipper’s Bloemsierkunst in Naarden had expected a lot of negative reactions after those messages, “he tells him when NH visits him. “But luckily that didn’t happen.”
The Naarder florist has read the messages. She wrote Ad Earlier this week about a study by Pesticide Action Network (PAN), which shows that part of the cut flowers in floristsForbidden pesticides contain.
AlsoRadar and Hogeschool Avans found illegal pesticides on bouquets. Those pesticides can be harmful in certain concentrations.
Dutch or foreign flowers?
Earlier this year, Pan shouted to stop the import of cut flowers, because the requirements for the use of pesticides in countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia and Ecuador are less strict. In those countries, for example, many roses are grown, which then by plane Being spread around the world.
“I buy the most Dutch flowers. The rules in the Netherlands are particularly strict. Rightly so. The industry has more and more organic pesticides. Occasionally, chemical items are being asked. They are also very expensive, so growers try to work with biological means.”
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Arnoud is not the only one: from last Monday to Wednesday, 155 million cut flowers and 25 million pot plants went to wholesalers through the auctions of Royal Flora Holland. That is more than last year.
The auction cannot exclude the fact that there are pesticides on those plants. Royal Flora Holland does claim that Dutch growers have reduced the use of the most environmentally harmful pesticides by 88 percent. That percentage is 73 percent worldwide.
Wars of pesticides
At Pluktuin Pluk Me! In Weesp they are averse to pesticides. “We use nothing at all, no pesticides,” says Karen Mulder. “And we only use indigenous plants, so that bees and butterflies will also benefit from it.”
The Pluktuin has a special Mother’s Day package full of organically grown flowers and plants. And that is appreciated by the customers. “How nice is it to see it grow here, knowing that no pesticides are involved?”
Staff in floriculture has been advising for some time to wash hands regularly. Nevertheless, some experts now also advise the consumer to wash hands after you have cut a flowers or put a forest in a vase.
As far as florist Arnoud is concerned, you can safely give your mother one of his bouquets: “I am not afraid that a mother will not be tasty from the flowers.”