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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

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Production Director Phalaenopsis - Taiwan

Flower Grower - Canada

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More than 150 companies joined from all over Vietnam

HortEx Vietnam held a kick-off event for HortEx Vietnam 2023 in Ho Chi Minh City

On the 11th of October, the organizers of HortEx Vietnam, VEAS (Vietnam), and Nova Exhibitions (The Netherlands) organized a successful Kick-off event for HortEx Vietnam 2023.…

FNGLA members lend support in hardest-hit South Florida

Heartbreaking images from areas of southwest Florida have emerged in the wake of Hurricane Ian. Many FNGLA members were impacted heavily and scrambled to get even their basic…

"First orders of chrysanthemums, hydrangeas, craspedia have already been shipped"

Successful buying mission of the Import Promotion Desk to Colombia

At the beginning of October, four buyers from Germany and the Netherlands traveled to the still relatively unknown flower country Colombia at the invitation of the Import…

"Start with a risk inventory within your company"

Retailers in Europe have high standards for the residues of pesticides on flowers and plants. Pesticides in floriculture crops are controlled as much as possible by growers.…

"Closed water systems that reuse drain water help overcome sodium obstacles"

Good irrigation water and surface water is vitally important to growers and their crops. Both the availability and quality of the water are under pressure in many places.…

Rogier Barents:

Laevo expands range with new exoskeleton suitable for horticulture

In 2013, Rogier Barents founded Laevo with his business partner Boudewijn Wisse. Laevo was a spin-out of the company InteSpring, which once started with systems to balance…

ING: 'Agricultural sector is going to shrink'

The agricultural sector is going to shrink. So writes ING in an October update on the sector. However, the bank points out that there are big differences…

Tomtech helps University greenhouse go green with newly installed control system

Horticulture technology experts Tomtech have upgraded Nottingham University’s control equipment in their Sutton Bonington campus greenhouse to help them save energy and money.…

Special Lighting and Greenhouse Technology

Water Ways enters the market in Angola with a first smart irrigation project

Water Ways Technologies Inc., a global provider of Israeli-based agriculture technology, providing water irrigation solutions to agricultural producers, is pleased to announce…

Celebrate the seasons with plants!

Celebrate the seasons with plants! That seems to be the motto at Kwintplant nursery in Poeldijk. Hundreds of thousands of plants leave the nursery every season, led by the…

Video Peet van Leeuwen in the picture

The Van Leeuwen family has been growing chrysanthemums since 1960. For 1.5 years, they also grow Antonov. Antonov is unique due to its enormous diameter, beautiful white…

Logistics performance update: new staff and reduced supply

Royal FloraHolland's logistics performance has improved again in recent weeks compared to the last update, they announce on their blog. Partly because new employees have been…

Video New future-proof production location officially opened

Together with colleagues, partners and clients, we officially opened our new production location with the Future is HERE event on Thursday, 22 September. During the diverse…

pyright: AVBS - Ivan De Clercq

Award for Belgian garden at Floriade

The Belgian ‘Regenerative Garden’ won the Sustainability Award at the 2022 Floriade Expo in Almere, the Netherlands. The Belgian garden is a textbook example of circularity…


Stopping condensation droplets from absorbing light and promoting pathogens All plastic greenhouses in Dagestan near the Caspian Sea face the same issue: droplets of condensation absorb light and promote growth of pathogens. Tomato growing companies have found a solution in the form of AntiCondens for plastic. The summers in Dagestan are hot and dry. The winters are rainy and windy. Condensation poses…

US (GA): Farm to School Month grows student understanding of agriculture

October is National Farm to School Month, and this year students will learn more about a leafy green that is packed with nutrition through the theme “Spinach to Win It.” Farm…

Parker Dearing: stepping stones to a nursery business

Parker Dearing is using all of the right stepping stones to his dream of owning a nursery. His time at NC State has been well spent, recently finishing a summer internship and…

AIPH announces winning cities for the AIPH World Green City Awards 2022

AIPH announces the Winners of the AIPH World Green City Awards 2022. The announcement of the 6 Category Winners and the Grand Winner was made at a dedicated Awards ceremony…

US (IL): Small mum business blossoms into thousands of plants and strawberries

Providing the opportunity for people to visit a farm is one of the passions of the owners of Triple M Farm: Mariah’s Mums & More. “We’re passionate about getting people out…

Video Looking back on 40 years of A.M.A. horticulture

For over 40 years, A.M.A. Horticulture has been a solutions-focused supplier to commercial growers. In this video, A.M.A. team members and A.M.A. customers and partners…

International agriculture sector will meet at Growtech

Growtech, one of the world's largest expos in greenhouse agriculture; "Greenhouse and Technologies," Irrigation Systems and Technologies," "Seeding," "Plant Nutrition," and…

UK: GCA recruiting for new CEO

The Garden Centre Association (GCA) is starting its recruitment process for a new Chief Executive Officer (October 2022). The new CEO will work closely with the Executive…

A nursery garden in China circa 1820-1840. Shipping Chinese flowers to Europe became big business in the 19th century, but seawater initially killed many plants en route until trial and error brought about a solution. Photo: Getty Images

Europe’s obsession with Chinese flowers through the centuries

Among the most unexpected exports from China to Europe in the late 18th and throughout the early 19th centuries were live plants destined for botanical gardens and burgeoning…

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Video Chrysanthemum Valley in retrospect

Dekker Chrysanten looks back on very successful days. Many visitors came by and have seen all of Dekker's beautiful varieties. Here you can find an impression of Chrysanthemum…

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