Ecuador roses to steal the show at Amsterdam’s Open Garden Days

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands: This weekend, visitors of Amsterdam’s annual Open Garden Days (June 20-22) will be treated to sumptuous and dazzlingly colourful displays of Ecuador roses.
The Amsterdam Open Gardens Day is a weekend in which more than 25 palaces and museums in the centre of Amsterdam open their gardens to the public. The roses will be displayed in a wide variety of colours and shapes, since Ecuador grows more than 300 varieties of roses, which are known especially by length of the stems (sometimes more than 1 meter), and the size of the bloom (probably the largest in the world), and the bright and beautiful colours of their petals.
These roses are grown on the Andes Mountains at 3,000 meters high, which is part of the secret of the beauty. This industry in Ecuador generates more than 120.000 jobs. In 2012, Ecuador exported for a total amount of 766 million USD dollars’ worth of fresh cut flowers.
The Institute for Export Promotion of Ecuador, PROECUADOR, with its Commercial Office in Rotterdam, Netherlands, coordinated the shipment from the Ecuadorian farms Naranjo Roses, Floreloy, Valdesol and Joygardens which donated these flowers.
Pictured are Ecuadorian roses exhibited at the Van Loon museum (Photo credits: C. Toala).