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Translation from the box;
Intratuin wishes you much pleasure of your purchases.
Uhm... thanks alot! :-)
In the garden centre.
When we enter the garden centre there is row upon row of shopping carts and being Dutch we have to pay to get one unlocked from the row. But don't be afraid, you get your coin back later, when you return it.
Vintage Old English scene.
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Attractive Lemax Christmas Village decorations, plenty of choice and in various themes. Old Dutch scenes, British Dickens period, even American- and German themes and more in a multitude of houses, figurines, trains, sparkling lights and a colorful collection of sounds do the remaining rest. The shops use huge displays attracting lots of customers. A nice activity for some weeks to create your own street or village entirely in Christmas and winter atmosphere, often decorated with lots of snow.
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A Christmas village (or putz) is a decorative, miniature-scale village often set up during the Christmas season. These villages are rooted in the elaborate Christmas traditions of the Moravian church.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_village.
Photo October 2022, Intratuin Bv (1983) after 39 years in time.
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Intratuin - Christmas village
With 53 garden centers in the Netherlands, 3 in Belgium and 11 in Germany, Intratuin (Est. 1983) is the market leader in the Netherlands and the largest in the Benelux. The mainly very large shops offer a wide range of plants, trees and shrubs for indoors and outdoors. Furthermore, garden articles, pet supplies, home accessories and catering and a large annual Christmas show.
Info: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intratuin.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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Zaterdag 16 februari lees ik voor bij de vissen in de Utrechtse Intratuin. Vrije inloop. Lees het programma op www.festivalmooiewoorden.nl
This is why we went to the Intratuin garden center (where we got the lilies): to buy some plants for a fall decoration piece on our garden table. We used a combination of purple heather (Calluna vulgaris), Gaultheria, Spindle (Euonymus), Skimmia and two species of Hebe.
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Hiervoor waren we naar de Intratuin gegaan (toen we de lelies hadden gekregen): om een paar plantjes te kopen voor een herfststukje op onze tuintafel. We hebben hiervoor paarse struikheide (Calluna vulgaris), Gaultheria, Kardinaalsmuts (Euonymus), Skimmia en twee soorten Hebe gebruikt.
Apart from this Citroën 2CV you can also transport your miniature Christmas tree on a Mini or a Volkswagen Beetle.
Het Nieuwkoop echtpaar Van der Hooren maakt gedetailleerde maquettes van Nieuwkoop rond het jaar 1900. Op dit moment is de zomerversie te zien in de plaatstelijke vestiging van Intratuin. Tot in de kleinste details is alles zelf gemaakt en uitgewerkt. Het witte rijtje woningen bestaat trouwens nog steeds. Men leefde hier hoofdzakelijk van visserij, turfsteken en de rietoogst.
Maquette of living in Nieuwkoop about the year 1900, made by Mr. and Mrs Van der Hooren. The white house still exists. Many people here were fishermen, smiths, peat- and thatchworkers.
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Right... This is why you should never accept the labels of plants from certain gardening centres...
The three different aloes you see in this picture come from different trays; I put one from each side by side together for comparison. Each Aloe is labelled as Aloe peglerae, but I am quite certain the variation in this species is not so large! I have a few of the left Aloe here labelled as A. broomii, the right one I also have a few labelled as A. peglerae, the middle I lack. I now question if any of these Aloes, including mine, are correctly I.D.ed.
What happened? These plants were grown and sold to the gardening centre by Smit Kwekerijen, but I do not think the mistake comes from them (I would like to snoop around, but their website has been hacked*). I rather think the Intratuin is to blame here, the person they hired to stick the barcode stickers on the little pots probably thought he was being smart and stuck the A. peglerae stickers on everything: they are all the same price anyway!
*So has mine. It keeps on opening a pop-up selling crap from MTV. Can't get it off earlier tonight, will begin round two with new FTP client right now. All malicious hackers must die. Slow.**
**Shouldn't post that. Now they might target me. The bastards.