Our Company
ABOUT US
Dick van der Maat has more than 30 years experience in growing Japanese Maples and has built a reputation as a specialist company, offering an extensive range of over more than 1000 cultivars of japanese Maple in the collection.
Our range of Japanese Maples have been cultivated using the technology from EM®.
This organic method ensures a healthy plant, wich ensures a strong resilient plant and plant growth.
The colours of these maples are vibrant and plant development quaranteed.
Dick van der Maat uses EM technology professionally. Chemical pesticides have been reduced by 95 % and no chemical fertlizers are used.
All cultivation, propagation and soil mixing is tendered on-site at the nursery with carefull monitoring to ensure top quality standards.
The nursery is proud that it does not contribute to environmental pollution.
EM promotes natural soil biodiversity and ecosystems acting as a probiotic suppressing soil/plant disease.
OUR HISTORY
In 1948 my father, Henk van der Maat, started a nursery for houseplants. His speciality was the growing of cyclamen. Over the years he also started to grow trees.
The multiplication was done by grafting. The grafting of trees was getting more important by time, so he quit the growing of houseplants.
Henk van der Maat
In 1970 I started to work fulltime with my father and he tought my everything about the grafting of all different kinds of trees.
At the same time I began to collect the Japanese Maple, as a hobby.
In 1973 I took over the nursery from my father and I expanded the grafting of trees even more. In 1976 I got married to Marjan and together we made the Japanese Maples as our most important products.
‘Marjan’ named after Marjan van der Maat
In 1990 we moved to our current location, Laag-Boskoop 92, and now we only grow the Japanese Maples.
Nursery Laag-Boskoop
Diana and Ellen, our daughters, are also infected by the maplevirus, and this made it possible to find one of our newest maples: Acer palmatum ‘Taylor’
DE collection® has already grown by over more than 1000 cultivars of Japanese Maples and is still growing.