Guus Bosman

When we left to the U.S., many friends and family members offered help in moving house, arranging things storing our belongings, which made leaving a lot less stressfull than it would have been without their help.

One of the thing I'm especially grateful for was the fact that all our plants from the Hooimarkt found a nice new home. They are now in many cities in Holland: Leeuwarden, Leiden, Amsterdam and Alkmaar, as well as in Middenmeer.

The other day I received this nice picture from Jerry and Marjolein, showing that the plants are doing fine.

These three plants all have their own story. The first one, on the left, is a cutting from a plant in Florijn. In 1997 I moved to my first apartment when I started my study in Amsterdam. The first time I came to see the house, this plant was in the livingroom of the apartment, left by the previous renters. It was without any water and in a pretty bad shape. I gave it some water, and came back two months later after our trip to China. The plant was still there, and still alive. The original plant is now in my old bedroom in Middenmeer, with my parents.

The plant in the middle is a cutting from a cactus that my grandmother Groen had in her apartment. It's remarkable because it can grow really fast and has beautiful flowers when it blooms.

The third plant is a cutting from the plant that my parents received when I was born, so in a since it's just as old as I am. Unfortunately, this plant is vulnerable to a disease that killed several other cuttings already.