Featured grower
Every month we highlight a grower of seasonal plants.
OK Plant
OK Plant is a family business with over 30 years of experience in creating sophisticated and beautiful plants, mainly orchids, that enrich your living environment naturally. What started as a family business has now grown into a company with three different locations: 's-Gravenzande, Naaldwijk and Maasdijk. The owners of OK Plant are Rob and Desiree Olsthoorn.
They share the passion to transform every home into a place where you can relax and feel comfortable. OK Plant is happy to share their knowledge and experience to let you enjoy their houseplants for as long as possible.
Asters are best known for their cheerful, star-shaped flowers. These flowers attract butterflies and bees and have a long flowering period.
Available in multiple colours, asters are a popular choice in backyard design in many people's homes and landscape designs. This versatile plant is often found in gardens, parks, and flower beds. Its star-shaped flowers in different colours such as pink, red, white and blue add an elegant touch to any setting. Aster is known for its late flowering, which makes it a valuable addition to your range of perennials.
The name 'Aster' is derived from the ancient Greek word for star, astér. There are summer and autumn asters, which flower from late summer into November. This plant attracts bees and butterflies, making them not only good to look at, but also good for a bio diverse backyard.
At OK Plant, we carefully select our Asters for quality and durability. Grown with love and passion, they are ready to enrich your assortment immediately. We offer the Asters as a loose product or in Kolibri Home ornamental pots. There is something for everyone.
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Luc Van Den Berghe
‘Over five decades of horticulture are not easily summed up in a few paragraphs. In 1969, my parents started the horticultural business in Deinze. From childhood, I was part of the company. After my father's death, my wife and I took over the business. Initially, we only grew green houseplants. 2002 was a key year: the first cautious steps were taken towards outdoor cultivation, which turned out to be a hit. We decided to build a slightly larger container field and some plastic domes.
The container field grew bigger and bigger, and with the increasing success, the need for workers also increased. In 2009, we decided to invest in automation to get the work done more efficiently with less manpower. The combination of a new potting machine, a robot, a buffer belt and a Prins forklift truck was then a smart investment. In the greenhouses, everything was grown on roll containers which makes working very flexible, followed by a washer for the roll containers, a second Prins forklift and a second robot. The container fields were enlarged and converted to lava fields to optimise drainage and reuse all drain water.
And yet something was gnawing. Growing houseplants was becoming increasingly difficult. The assortment had to be wider, but the quantities sold per product were getting smaller. We were faced with a choice: either find other markets, or adapt and improve our cultivation to better meet our Belgian customers. We pulled the card of our current customers.
On the one hand, there was a customer who asked us to grow Cordylines. On the other hand, we decided to invest more in outdoor plants. In 2011, a larger shed and a cold greenhouse were added. Today, we hardly grow any indoor plants in the greenhouse, only Cordylines for year-round cultivation. We also grow Canna, Capsicum, Catharanthus, Cuphea, Primula, Hedera, Lavender, Solanum, ornamental grasses, Heuchera, and perennials in p13.
Our range of outdoor plants is wide which makes it quite intensive, but it pays off. Our company now covers 5ha and we produce over 1.7 million pots a year.
Innovation for us also means sustainability. We have been a member of MPS for more than 20 years. In 2011, we had solar panels installed. We switched to natural gas. For several years we have also only used recycled pots that can be recycled again and we switched to peat, part of which is peat-free. We try to spray as little as possible and work completely organically on certain crops.
Furthermore, we have been recycling all our water for many years. Due to the drier summers in recent years, we have installed a large rainwater basin in 2021 to provide us with more qualitative feed water. All these efforts also earned us the MPS-GAP label, which more and more customers consider important. Furthermore, we have our own transport, so our customers are always supplied on time.
Our son Jelle has also been active in the company for about four years. He takes care of various tasks such as biology, potting, preparing orders and organising transport.’
Below you can see some of what nursery Luc Van Den Berghe has to offer. Log in and click through to order:
LAVANDULA ANG. HIDCOTE
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LAVANDULA ANG. HIDCOTE
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CORDYLINE IND. PEKO
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CORDYLINE AUSTR. RED STAR
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