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Innovation and sustainability – this is the motto of the Pöppelmann TEKU programme at the Four Oaks Trade Show on 5 and 6 September 2023 in Cheshire/Great Britain: One of the trade fair highlights is a thermoformed round pot, which is now available with practical label slots. In addition, the...
July's Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures have been released and show that the organisation’s members continued to perform well – despite the weather being against them (2023).
The Garden Centre Association (GCA) has just introduced another new module to its Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) e-Learning platform – this time on Sustainable Disease Control (August 2023). With growing public environmental awareness, it’s designed to provide garden centre staff with the...
The energy prices are very high. And we see this reflected in our use of light installations. HPS lamps are being switched off and replaced by LED lights, which are not only more economical, but can also be dimmed. We still need to use artificial light, but by using it in smarter ways, we can...
Slow food, slow travel, slow fashion…. Slow Flowers! The “Slow movement” is not a fleeting trend but a new, sustainable way of acting, producing, consuming and appreciating – as a counterpart to mass production and mass consumption with all its negative pressures and consequences. Within the...
DENSO Corporation, Japan, has announced that it has acquired the full stake in Certhon Group, a Dutch horticultural facility operator, with the aim of accelerating the global expansion of its agricultural production business.
With a new, smarter approach to supply chain management, Dümmen Orange made significant savings on the amount of air freight kilometres, and thus on CO2 emissions. By bringing production and sales markets closer together, far fewer air kilometres were needed to bring the company's cuttings to...
Only one more month to go until the second autumn edition of PLANTARIUM|GROEN-Direkt – the greenest, largest garden plant fair in the Netherlands. On 23 and 24 August 2023 visitors arriving at the fair’s entrance will be welcomed by six outdoor exhibitors, hot coffee and the scanning team. A few...
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.
"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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
If you think about cooperation with Polish entrepreneurs, you can meet them on International Taid Fair GREEN IS LIFE that will be held on August 31 - September 2, 2023 in EXPO XXI Warsaw.
