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When choosing the right variety of Gypsophila for your flower shop, it’s essential to consider quality, versatility, and shelf life. Here are three top tips for selecting the best Gypsophila options:

Limonium: fresh & dried
From pale pink to deep dark purple. Limonium's colourful crisp flowers are beautiful in lush (picking) bouquets, but of course you can also dry them well. For a dried bouquet or flower cloud, for example. Tip! Also use dried Limonium - according to the Slow Life flower trend - in fresh autumn and winter bouquets. Klaver Flowers grows different varieties of Limonium, such as Diamond Blush, Lilac, Oshi Pink and Tiffany Diamond. The latest introduction is Limonium ‘Skylight’, a light purple variety with beautifully branched stems and a particularly long vase life.

“We are one big family; we support and help one another as much as possible. It is a very inspiring environment; with many nationalities, we provide different types of services and use a large variety of flowers, from the classic rose to tropical flowers. And we all have our own individual style.”

Fred van der Hoeven is Business Initiator Retail Services at Royal FloraHolland. Patrick van den Bos is Consultant Retail Services at Royal FloraHolland. They describe 3 tips for carrying out the Gentle Paradox trend in your shop.

Want to know how to make flower pumpkins? Read the tips of Anneloes Demmers here. She is Content Lead at Bloemenbureau Holland and deals with floral trends on a daily basis.

Serena van Oostrum (26) works at Avablooms in Ede, the Netherlands, her second home. She describes how she finds inspiration for bouquets and flower arrangements.

Wim Markerink (61) has been running Bloemsierkunst Markerink in the Dutch city of Zutphen together with his wife Diane (58) for 40 years now. How does he continue to set himself apart from the rest?