Port Holland

Port Holland A little bit of Holland in Canada!

Our mid-blooming purple variety tulips are beginning to blossom!! These are known as “parrot” tulips because the flowers...
04/20/2021

Our mid-blooming purple variety tulips are beginning to blossom!! These are known as “parrot” tulips because the flowers have sharper, more triangular petals that resemble a parrot’s beak! 🦜 They are both exotic and delicate, but my favorite thing about them is the way their purple color changes depending on the time of day. From a distance under cloud cover, they appear moody and deep, but up close and under full sun, the purple lightens, brightens, and shimmers to a near dark pink! We spend hours in the fields getting to know each variety and how they grow, change, and season from bulb to flower so we can help you select the very best varieties, colors, and planting times depending on what you like and where you live! We think everyone deserves to have the garden of their dreams, and you can think of us as your tulip fairyfarmfairies! 🧚🏼‍♀️🧚🏽‍♂️🌷✨

Here at Port Holland, each tulip is precious and nurtured by hand with the utmost love and care. 🤲🏼🌷✨
04/16/2021

Here at Port Holland, each tulip is precious and nurtured by hand with the utmost love and care. 🤲🏼🌷✨

Our daughter, Finna, is very proud to show you our first tulip blooms of the season! The first flower opened late yester...
04/11/2021

Our daughter, Finna, is very proud to show you our first tulip blooms of the season! The first flower opened late yesterday afternoon and then we woke up to an entire row of them blooming in the sunshine this morning! Please stay tuned as we post more blooms - we will be offering several different tulip bulb varieties for sale this year - and we’ll keep posting photos so you’ll have an easier time shopping and picturing them growing in your gardens, forest perimeters, yards, and walkways! Tulips cheer up any outdoor space, and for us tulip farmers, this is the most exciting time of the year!! 🌷🌷🌷

A hardworking tulip farmer and his little tulip sprouts checking the Port Holland tulip fields on this beautiful first d...
03/20/2021

A hardworking tulip farmer and his little tulip sprouts checking the Port Holland tulip fields on this beautiful first day of spring. 💐🌷💗

On a beautiful day like today, you can daydream about what the future brings.
03/20/2021

On a beautiful day like today, you can daydream about what the future brings.

03/01/2021

Have you ever been to Volendam? When we visited, our cute little Dutch lady brightened up once it was time to get her picture taken in traditional Dutch clothing! We will offer this fun service right here at Port Holland in the future too!

02/25/2021

Marvel at these majestic Dutch windmills still in operation today!

With the help of our Dutch-Canadian friends from London and some very spirited little meisjes cheering us on (here they ...
11/17/2020

With the help of our Dutch-Canadian friends from London and some very spirited little meisjes cheering us on (here they are showing off their very own bulbs), we were able to plant tens of thousands of tulips before the hard frost!! We hope to have lots of bulb varieties to sell next year - real homegrown Canadian tulip bulbs grown right here on our family farm...with Dutch roots!! ❤️🇳🇱🇨🇦🌷

We had a very exciting delivery from the Netherlands last week!! A tulip bulb planting machine!! This machine can plant ...
11/11/2020

We had a very exciting delivery from the Netherlands last week!! A tulip bulb planting machine!! This machine can plant 100,000 bulbs in a single hour.

This shipment sure was a sight for sore eyes as it was delivered to our driveway. Yuri had to negotiate the sale from across the ocean with a bulb farmer in the Netherlands. The farmer was understandably very hesitant about selling it to someone over the phone living in North America, and then the broker and shipping company mixed up the measurements on the machine, so when it arrived in Den Helder to set sail for Canada, it was rejected for transport. We were told to pay $1,000 a day for it to sit on the docks (and risk it being lost altogether) while the measurements and new shipping details were sorted or have it sent back to the farmer. We couldn’t afford thousands of dollars in dock fees and not knowing how long it would take, so the machine was sent back. 😞 Meanwhile, we watched the weather patterns shift dramatically in Ontario and knew our fields needed to be planted with bulbs soon. We also knew we had no way of planting thousands of tulip bulbs by hand and we were afraid we might lose even more money (and all our savings) from the bulbs we cultivated by hand last year.

Yuri was finally able to arrange transport and shipping with a new broker a few weeks ago and the machine was finally delivered last week! Yuri had three days to figure out how it worked before the last possible day for planting arrived. After such hard luck with the shipping, we had good fortune that the machine was definitely compatible with our tractor, and our farmer neighbor had drop pins we could borrow to hook up all the different shafts (all the hardware and tractor stores here are out of stock on everything with the pandemic).

As Yuri says, the future is looking colorful, and one little Dutch girl was awfully happy to see her papa so awfully happy the day the planter finally arrived!! ❤️

It was a rainy day on the farm today, so I tried to make Krentenbollen on a whim, and they’re not bakery-perfect but the...
08/03/2020

It was a rainy day on the farm today, so I tried to make Krentenbollen on a whim, and they’re not bakery-perfect but they’re not bad, either! Krentenbollen are sweet Dutch raisin buns (think of a Hawaiian roll with cinnamon and raisins inside) and they’re usually eaten piping hot with a healthy pat of butter!

Mine came out with the right taste, but too dense inside and a little dry on top. I think I need better yeast (as in, not expired 😬🤣) and/or a better place for the dough to rise...and also maybe an egg wash on top! I’ll post the recipe as soon as I get it just right! I’m normally not a great baker and I’ve yet to make any type of bread or bun that’s anything but barely edible (I think it’s like gardening - you either have a green thumb or you don’t 🤷🏼‍♀️ - I definitely did not get either of those genes) - however, these were easy to make and I think with this basic recipe, there might just be hope for me yet! 😏🍞🥟

I always admire these old Dutch clogs, which rest on the porch of a century old farmhouse where Finna takes swimming les...
07/17/2020

I always admire these old Dutch clogs, which rest on the porch of a century old farmhouse where Finna takes swimming lessons. I couldn’t help snapping a photo of the clogs this morning when I saw them posing with this red, sun-kissed geranium! The farmer’s family is Belgian, but his wife says there’s a link and a story to these Dutch clogs and that he’ll tell us if we ask him. He’s a hard working man who spends most of his time with his horses and in his fields, so we rarely see him, but I’m anxious to learn the story whenever he might have time to tell it! ❤️

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725 Charlotteville West Quarter Line
Norfolk County, ON
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