• The business stemmed from Nick’s father, Peter, who started growing a small patch of daffodils as a sideline more than 50 years ago in the Netherlands. Since then, daffodils and tulips have become the family business.
• From tulips, to peonies, to daffodils and gladiolas, everything on the farm is picked by hand in a day or two each. Just think – when the greenhouse is full, there’s about 2-3 million tulips in there! That’s a lot of picking!
• Lakeland is also the force behind Bloom, the wildly successful Abbotsford Tulip Festival owned and run by Nick’s daughter, Alexis. In its first year alone, the festival attracted 100,000 people!