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  • Plants of the brand "Beauty Queens" are ready for sale!

    Erica gracilis from Germany The royal family keeps growing

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    The "Beauty Queens" will continue to enrich the market in premium quality. The Erica gracilis series is one of the strongest brands in the European autumn business. Now the "Beauty Queens" brand has signed up further first-class farms for licensed cultivation.

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  • The Lignofibre hydro is particularly well suited for substrate mixtures for sowing and propagation as well as for cuttings and young plants.

    Substrates New superfine wood fibre with maximum water absorption

    Germany peat and peat alternative substrates

    "As already announced at this year's IPM, we have once again succeeded in further developing our quality wood fibre Lignofibre. From now on, the new variant Lignofibre c hydro is available as a further and particularly effective peat substitute", reports Gramoflor sales manager Michael Nordlohne.

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  • DEGA Pocket Guide 2024 Special publication on greenhouses

    Once a year, the editors of the trade magazine DEGA GARTENBAU (Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart/Germany) publish a special issue. In particular, it presents an overview of new garden centers and greenhouses in Germany and Europe.

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  • The team at Ruxley Manor Garden Centre with their award for Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category with GCA CEO Peter Burks (back right), and South Thames Area Chairman James Evans (back middle) and GCA Inspector Gordon Emslie (back second left).

    Great Britain Garden centres in all regions are top

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    You can find photos and information about the winners in the individual UK regions via the following links: 2023 North Thames award winners Scotland & Northern Ireland 2023 GCA award winners announced North East & North West 2023 winners Wales & West GCA 2023 regional winners announced GCA...

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    • Hailstones of an exceptional size of over ten centimetres in diameter hit over one hundred horticulture companies during heavy storms in the north-eastern part of Italy.

      Italy Anomalous hail hits horticulture companies

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      Hailstones of an exceptional size of over ten centimetres in diameter hit over one hundred horticulture companies during heavy storms in the north-eastern part of Italy. Risk managers from Gartenbau-Versicherung VVaG report extensive damage to tunnels, buildings and crops in Veneto, Friuli and the...

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    • Every year, the Château de Chantilly, near Paris, is the majestic setting for les Journées des Plantes de Chantilly that bring together garden lovers, art enthusiasts and curious minds.

      France Magical event in the park of Château de Chantilly

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      Once again set in the magical park of the Château de Chantilly, and after a sumptuous May edition, les Journées des Plantes de Chantilly are gearing up for their next event in October with aprestigious patron: Jean-Michel Othoniel.

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  • Culvitate Ohio 2023: In the category Reader´s Choice the Dianthus series "Capitán" from Selecta North America has been awarded with the Medal of Excellence!

    Selecta Breeding at Cultivate Ohio Award winning Dianthus in the US

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    Cultivtate Ohio is back and with it the Greenhouse Grower´s 2023 Medal of Excellence Award. In the category Reader´s Choice the Dianthus series "Capitán" from Selecta North America has been awarded with the Medal of Excellence.

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  • GCA CEO, Peter Burks

    Great Britain June: hot weather gives plant sales a boost

    The Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures for June (2023) have shown a ‘massive’ boost in sales of outdoor plants, garden sundries and hard landscaping. GCA member garden centres recorded outdoor plant sales were up by 27.08% last month when compared to June 2022,...

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    • Fleuroselect Home Garden Conference 2023 in the Netherlands

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      Fleuroselect invites to the Home Garden Conference 2023, which will take place on 6 and 7 September in the Dutch provinces of Flevoland and North Holland. The two-day programme is an excellent opportunity to discover the latest home gardening trends and catch up with industry colleagues. This...

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  • Sustainability is a theme that impacts everyone in the sector and compels action.

    Europe Flower Council of Holland wants to reach consumers with sustainability-related communication

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    The Dutch horticultural sector is undergoing a dynamic transition. Sustainability is a theme that impacts everyone in the sector and compels action. Legislation and regulations, Green Deals and agreements are defining the route, while sector goals – such as energy neutrality by 2040 – are...

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  • Hishtil is a leading nursery specializing in vegetables, herbs, seedlings, and young plants for use in agro production and home gardening.

    Israel Hishtil’s Ornamental Herbs Grown in Safe, Protected Facilities

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    Hishtil is a leading nursery specializing in vegetables, herbs, seedlings, and young plants for use in agro production and home gardening, shipping over 1 billion young plants of the highest quality every year around the globe. The company also exports from Israel a wide assortment of edible and...

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  • The aim is to set up a community-run tree nursery in Coventry to provide local provenance trees and propagation of locally important trees and tree species for planting projects in the city.

    Great Britain Coventry University researchers create community tree nursery

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    An unexpected discovery at an abandoned allotment in Coventry has led to a project looking to preserve the city’s trees. Coventry University researchers Liz Trenchard and Sam Green came across apple blossom growing at the abandoned allotment site while walking around Charterhouse Park. They...

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  • Greening the city is of major importance for Utrecht.

    The Netherlands Utrecht showcases urban greening initiative

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    Urban parks provide many benefits to cities that are facing growing populations and climate change, including improving the health of citizens, reducing the urban heat island effect, and supporting local ecosystems. Creating green urban spaces was the subject of the July AIPH Green City Briefing,...

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  • France SIVAL in Angers from 16 to 18 January 2024

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    The 37th edition of the SIVAL, International specialist plant production show, will take place at the Parc des Expositions in Angers, on the 16-18 January 2024.

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  • Sion Eichmüller (left) and William van Schie from GrowOrganiX

    The Netherlands and Switzerland Van Marrewijk and Schwarz join forces in new joint-venture

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    With the founding of GrowOrganiX, the family-owned businesses Van Marrewijk Maassluis of Maassluis (the Netherlands) and Max Schwarz AG of Villigen (Switzerland) will join forces in a new endeavour. The new company will produce young plants for European growers of organic tomatoes, sweet peppers,...

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  • MNP/Suntory 1.5 billion Surfinia sold since 1991

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    In the late 1980s, 'The Plant Pioneers' from MNP/ Suntory had a vision. To bring to the market a plant with strong unrivalled colours, flowering power and high garden performance for consumers. Surfinia was the very first trailing-Petunia introduced & because it was propagated from cuttings it was...

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  • The VHM Machinery and Limex teams around the table

    The Netherlands VHM and Limex cooperate on engineering a washing line for 1 m³ crates

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    Something special happens when two business come together and each can contribute a missing puzzle piece. When both parties have an intuitive understanding and can solve the puzzle together, synergy is created and the result is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. This is precisely...

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