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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.
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...
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,...
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.
The Garden Centre Association (GCA) on Thursday, July 13, 2023 unveiled its winners for the North Thames region during a presentation at Poplars Garden Centre in Bedfordshire.
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,...
Australia and New Zealand’s largest commercial greenhouse construction company, Apex Greenhouses, has agreed to sell a minority stake to GreenV, a group of individual companies that work seamlessly together, each delivering the best technology, products and services in their own domain of...
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...
