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Uganda: "We tried to see it all as a big sleepover party"

After a five-week complete lockdown, Uganda is gradually opening up, enabling several companies to pick up business again. For cutting farm Wagagai, the timing of lifting the…

Vacancies:

With spray lance on wheels, you can also chalk or coat during strong winds

You could call it the red line in the innovations of Willem Poppe: the bicycle. He already developed the chalk bike to chalk the greenhouse while riding a bike, and has now…

Bioline

"This product saves at least 40% of labour compared to introducing sachets"

James Coles Nurseries in Thurnby, Leicester, is a grower of amenity trees and shrubs in the UK with 7 production locations on 500 acres. James Moffatt, main grower on the…

Flower Circus

Flower Circus is coming to your home

And then the Circus couldn’t come to town...

"It all began with ‘some kind of virus’ far away in China. Nobody had a clue about the overwhelming effect it would have on all of us", says John Elstgeest of Flower Circus.…

Australian production nurseries sold 2 billion plants last year

The nursery industry continues to be a significant contributor to the Australian horticulture industry and the wider Australian economy. According to the Nursery Industry…

Edible plant Physalis Puraviana in a sustainable cultivation pot

The first plastic-free Physalis Peruviana (with the Cape gooseberry) from Mulders Sierteelt from Middelbeers (Netherlands) was launched. This concept, with the sustainable…

Mayer

Mayer and Visser intensifty cooperation in Lower Rhine region

After many years of partnership and a large number of jointly implemented automation projects around the globe, Mayer and Visser are joining forces for the first time to offer…

Luiten Greenhouses

Dutch greenhouse builder delivers garden center project

On Wednesday the 29th of April 'Natuurlijk Tilburg' opened its doors for the general public. Unfortunately, a big and festive opening didn't come, but that doesn't make this…

Special Labour

New innovation strategy for Vineland: diversification, labour and environment

Vineland Research and Innovation Centre started in 2007, and has been growing ever since. One year ago a new CEO, Ian Potter was appointed. At that time, the company started a…

Hillmount Garden Centre

Northern Irish garden centre owner urges clarification on reopening date

A garden centre owner has pleaded with the Northern Ireland Executive to give him a date to reopen. Garden centres and other outdoor retail spaces are set to reopen in the…

CHA

British exhibitor group preparing for the rescheduled GreenTech

The GreenTech show in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has been rescheduled to 20-22 October 2020 and the Commercial Horticultural Association (CHA) is organising the British…

Franziska Fichtner

How a small molecule influences sugar metabolism in plants

In a process known as photosynthesis, plants use the energy of sunlight to produce sugar out of water and carbon dioxide in their leaves. The sugar is transported from the…
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of ornamental plants

Ornamental plants are plants grown for decorative purposes. They include cut flowers, bulbs, potted plants, shrubs and trees for gardening and landscape design. Like other…

Royal FloraHolland

Royal FloraHolland:

Auctioning flowers and plants 1 hour earlier; Monday 25 May and Tuesday 2 June 2020

Royal FloraHolland sees that trade is slowly recovering and volumes are moving towards the ‘usual’ level again. In particular, the number of transactions has increased, as…

UK: HTA reinforces the importance of social distancing measures alongside store reopening

The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) has issued a statement supporting the need for social distancing measures when garden centres reopen: HTA Chairman,…

Chinese flower grower:

"No layoffs or wage cuts during these hard times"

Even though he is enduring economic losses of more than 500,000 yuan due to the coronavirus epidemic, Li Xiangjun, owner of a flower cultivation base in…

American Flowers Week

Grower’s Discount Labels joins American Flowers Week as a sponsor

For the past several years, American Flowers Week bouquet labels have been ordered from Grower’s Discount Labels. "We’ve loved working with this family-owned business with…

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Today’s exports! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland! 😀 pic.twitter.com/1JjDeKWmFJ — Neil Alcock (@NeilAlcock) May 13, 2020

India: Floriculture federation appeals for relief package from government

High tech floriculture, hit by COVID-19 pandemic, is in dire need of relief and stimulus, lest its survival is at stake, according to the Krishnagiri…

Norway and Finland reopen their borders to seasonal laborers

The Norwegian government has decided to allow certain overseas seasonal laborers into the country again. These are those working in the agricultural and…

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Genetic analysis of leaf traits in small-flower chrysanthemum

Leaf shape is an important quality trait of agronomic crops, and to control the law of genetic variation of leaf shape is of practical significance for improving the early…

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