Our man in Holland
Wilco is one of Holland’s premiere action sports agents. He’s got a host of exclusive brands that he works with and we were lucky enough to have locked up with him a couple of years ago. Since then, he’s been pushing our product and has done an amazing job of finding the right retailers and people to represent us out there.
The ongoing joke in the office, is that Wilco has been with us for over two years and has tried on numerous occasions to make one of our blogs and has yet to grace the screen.
Outside his profession, he’s a painter and closet botanist, with a whole host of exotic plants that he cares for with pain staking attention.
Just this past week he had a keen eye on his Epiphyllum - (pronounced /ˌɛpɨˈfɪləm/;[1] “upon the leaf” in Greek) it is a genus of 19 species of epiphytic plants in the cactus family (Cactaceae), native to Central America. Common names for these species include orchid cacti and leaf cacti, though the latter also refers to the genus Pereskia.
The epiphyllums exotic attribute, is that it flowers a large, strongly fragrant flower, that blooms for a single night only, after four years of tending to it. He’s paid extra close attention to her for the last couple of weeks now, with a rough idea as to when she should bloom and at sometime in the wee hours of the morning last week - she bloomed.
With great excitement, he grabbed his camera and took a quick shot of something he had been looking after for over 1460 days. In some beautiful little way, Finisterre was present. Take a close look at the wall behind the flower.
Stoked with the story Wilco and congratulations on your first blog!!
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