Thank you for visiting Van Wingerden International the grower and supplier of Nature's Heritage plants and flowers. Van Wingerden International grows over 150 varieties of plants, including bedding plants, foliage, hanging baskets, African violets, mums, poinsettias, spring bulb crops, perennials, and many other flowering indoor plants. Sales from the greenhouses are wholesale only. For retail, look for the Nature's Heritage brand on plants in your local garden centers and nurseries. Thank you for visiting.
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Van Wingerden currently produces more than 150 varieties of garden and potted plants, with its major crops including bedding plants, African violets, chrysanthemums, poinsettias, and other flowering plants. For each of the crops, individual environmental requirements can be created by providing separate climates within sections of each greenhouse.
Aart and Cornelia van Wingerden emigrated from Holland to the United States with six dollars, a few possessions they could carry and the belief that there were better opportunities to be found in this country.
With that philosophy, they worked together and successfully established greenhouse nurseries in six states and Holland, an innovative greenhouse design company, a corporation that develops and tests new growing methods and a nonprofit organization that is involved with agricultural projects in developing nations.Mr. Van Wingerden passed away in 1996 and his wife passed away ten years later.
With that philosophy, they worked together and successfully established greenhouse nurseries in six states and Holland, an innovative greenhouse design company, a corporation that develops and tests new growing methods and a nonprofit organization that is involved with agricultural projects in developing nations.Mr. Van Wingerden passed away in 1996 and his wife passed away ten years later.
Many innovative additions to the company's operation and the greenhouse industry have been a product of that philosophy. An invention by Aart Van Wingerden that may have had the greatest impact on the industry is the Winstrip, a patented, containerized system for growing young plants, or plugs, for later transplanting.
