De Kwakel, March 2025 – We are looking forward to Flower Trials 2025. As usual, HBA organizes during the Flower Trials week on Thursday (June 12th) the Hydrangea Night, a special meet and greet for associates from the hydrangea industry. Save the date. A personal invitation will follow soon.
De Kwakel, March 2025 – Amid his flourishing cut hydrangeas, Brazilian grower Adriano van Rooyen looks confidently to the future. Together with his daughter Camilla and her partner Lucas Salomons, he now cultivates cut hydrangeas on 7 hectares, including several varieties from HBA’s Tropical assortment. Jaap Stelder from HBA recently visited
De Kwakel, February 2025 – In the last week of January hydrangea specialist Sjoerd Ederveen and breeder Niels Arts visited Agriom’s selection garden in Limuru, Kenya. The two men evaluated all the cops at the trial garden and Niels made selections. On the whole the crops look very promising. Sjoerd
De Kwakel, January 2025 – Breeder HBA introduces the new catalogue 2025/2026 with the complete assortment of pot and garden hydrangeas. The catalogue also contains an overview of the paniculatas developed by HBA. Check it out! Visit the HBA-website www.hydrangeabreeders.nl for further information or download a version of the catalogue
De Kwakel, January 2025 – From Tuesday, January 28, to Friday, January 31, HBA will be present at the IPM trade fair in Essen, Germany. We warmly welcome you to visit our booth in Hall 1, B35. We are excited to showcase some potted hydrangeas from our assortment, including Code
De Kwakel, January 2025 – Martijn Kuiper has been working as a commercial manager at breeder HBA in De Kwakel since January. HBA is part of the Agriom group. With Martijn’s arrival, the complete sales team at HBA now consists of three members. Initially, Martijn will focus primarily on commercial
De Kwakel, December 2024 – In the 2024 season, HBA conducted a pinching trial with several cut hydrangea varieties and selections for cut production from the Royal series. Sjoerd Ederveen is enthusiastic about the results of Royal Princess, Royal Impressive, and Royal Salute. Additionally, some long-established varieties like Royal Sunset
De Kwakel, November 2024 – Breeder HBA presents Cloud Hydrangea BLOOMULUS, thé innovative novelty in the Hydrangea paniculata assortment. Characteristic for the BLOOMULUS series are the cloud-like flower heads. The series will be offered in three branded pot sizes: 14 cm, 18 cm and 23 cm, with special emphasis on
De Kwakel, August 2024 – HBA has registered 6 different paniculatas (Pandalus, Pandria, Panflora, Pansana, Pantera and Pantheon) for the Quality Garden Hydrangea Benchmark 2024. The paniculatas are submitted by HBA partner Kötterheinrich. The benchmark is being conducted by the Post Harvest Knowledge Center of Royal FloraHolland (RFH). From week
De Kwakel, July 2024 – In the 2024 season, HBA is conducting a pinching trial with several varieties and selections of hydrangea for cut production. A total of 23 varieties of the HBA Royal serie are included in the trial. The outcomes of the trial will be shared with growers
