Arjan Smit gazes out over his tulip fields, a riot of red and pink flowers he has cultivated all his adult life and part of a family business his grandfather started in 1940."The climate has changed. We can feel that. We have more wet periods. Last year, it was just raining, raining, raining and you can see the result," he told AFP.
"In the last 10 years, sometimes we have to water every week. That means 10 times... It's much more expensive. That's sometimes hard," he said. "I'm very afraid now... that in a warm period they will not have enough roots to drink all the water they need and they will die again and we will have a very bad harvest period."
Tim Rozendaal, from Dutch Flower Association VGB, told AFP there was still"uncertainty about waiting times" and"not yet sufficient" capacity to carry out the checks."Companies say they are considering not sending plants during the first week of border controls," said Rozendaal, amid reports from Britain of garden centres stockpiling.