COMPANY Bloomia
WHERE Le Domaine, Rawsonville
Growing more than four million tulips annually in South Africa when these bulbs actually prefer a cold climate is not for the faint-hearted.
But this is what Adriaan van Wyk and his team are doing with great success as part of the international company Bloomia. After a visit to the Netherlands, Adriaan’s mom Retha Alberts and her late husband Kobus decided that they wanted to grow tulips on their smallholding in Rawsonville (). In 2009, they started assembling a greenhouse that they had imported