Wim Houtmeyers: Grower of 5000 varieties

When you meet Wim, you immediately understand why. He is a born storyteller and likes to help customers make the right choice. In addition to ornamental horticulture, the company also does garden construction. Only if they are given free rein and are allowed to unleash their creativity.

Meet our growers

Hans De Neve

For a garden with character

In 1988, Hans De Neve did what he never intended to do. He became a tree nurseryman. Just like his father and grandfather. Grandpa De Neve started between the two world wars with vegetables and tobacco plants, two important foodstuffs. After the war, his father and brother also joined the company, but Hans did not. He saw how hard it was. But his love for plants won out. And it looked like a fourth generation of tree nurserymen would follow.

Geert Coppens

With his head among the roses

Growing up between his father's roses, Geert quickly gets the taste, or rather, smell. As a young guy he joins the business. At first he focuses on packaged roses and shrubs in small pots. Then he switches to container cultivation and open ground and expands to about 10 hectares.

Lucas De Nolf

A family tree of breeders

Tree nursery Willy De Nolf is, to put it mildly, a family affair. Of the family, only one scion of four is not in the business. Lucas started with his brother in 2012. In 2018, he becomes chairman of Bestselect.

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