Today, I’m going to take you to the Netherlands, one of my favorite places, stopping in Amsterdam and then, about 10 miles away, the town of Aalsmeer, home of the world’s largest flower market, an ...

More than 20 million stems are auctioned daily near Amsterdam at the world’s largest flower market. But the Internet and globalization have decentralized the market, casting its future into doubt.

Traditional roses and all other red flowers are in demand at the Aalsmeer flower auction in The Netherlands, one of the world’s biggest, where the approach of Valentine’s Day means sales are soaring.

If you're one of the millions of people receiving or giving flowers next Sunday for Mother's Day, you probably won't be giving much thought to where they came from. In the Netherlands, however, where ...

DUIN-EN BOLLENSTREEK, NETHERLANDS —This is the Holland of picture postcards. Charming small farming towns dot a landscape crisscrossed by canals, and between the canals, seemingly on every spare plot, ...

As far as the eye can see, there’s nothing but roses: red ones, white ones, yellow ones, short-stemmed, giant-bloomed or mini-petaled, all bound in thick bunches and stacked in crates on double-decker ...

The volunteer-guide in Aalsmeer’s delightful Horticultural Museum is describing his long, back-breaking life as a lilac grower. ‘I started at 15 and my father died when I was 19, so I had to take over ...