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Busy wedding season ahead for flower farms, with sandy blooms taking center stage

“Even though the economy is being hit hard by inflation, we have good reason to believe that it will be a wonderful wedding season as all venues are booked, weddings are…

Metrolina Greenhouses

Metrolina Greenhouses marks 50 years in business

Metrolina Greenhouses marked its 50th year in business on Tuesday, April 26. Founded in 1972 on one acre in Huntersville, North Carolina by Tom and Vickie VanWingerden, who…

Ultrafiltration for closed cultivation, but what is ultrafiltration anyway?

Ultrafiltration is a membrane technique for removing organic pollution from water. For years, it has been a widely used technique worldwide for the production of drinking…

UK lockdown gardening boom continues despite return to work

A lockdown gardening boom, which saw record demand for plants during the pandemic, continues despite many people being back at work. Between March 2020 and today, Tesco saw…

Codema bankrupt: "It seems that Codema has been hit harder than similar companies"

In the market, it was known that the situation at Codema Systems Group wasn't stable over the last couple of years. With the bankruptcy declared yesterday, more than sixty…

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Delbard French roses grown in South Australia

Strong growers, vigorous and disease resistant, mostly very fragrant, and with a unique mix of a modern and classic look, Delbard roses tick all the boxes. Wagners Rose…

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Combining crops and solar panels is allowing Kenya to ‘harvest the sun twice’

In a region where energy security poses real challenges, but sunlight is not in short supply, solar electricity seems an obvious solution for much of Africa. But the answer…

Special Crop Protection

New Guinea Impatiens: Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus

Necrotic spotting and ringspots were observed while visitinga grower. These symptoms are typical of what occurs with avirus. This Alert will aid in the identification of a…

Mechanisms of salt tolerance and molecular breeding of salt-tolerant ornamental plants

As the area of salinized soils increases, and freshwater becomes more scarcer worldwide, an urgent measure for agricultural production is to use salinized land and conserve…

University of Florida 2022 Greenhouse Training Online courses

Finding trained growers is a major challenge for our industry. Your best investment is to upskill your own workers to make better crop management decisions by…

Apply for SAF's Industry Awards by May 2

The Society of American Florists will honor the industry's best and brightest with accreditation's and awards at SAF Orlando 2022, the association's 137th…

May 2 - June 19

Show your best designs in the Alexandra Farms garden rose design contest

Floral designers around the world are invited to share their best work using garden roses in the Alexandra Farms Garden Rose Design Contest. The contest opens on May 2, and…

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Copper may help reduce the use of antibiotics in crops

Researchers at Russia’s National University of Science and Technology MISIS, Voronezh State University of Forestry and Technologies, and Tambov State University discovered…

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East Texas flower growers see demand to supply florists

“It was inspiring to see that my flowers were needed,” said Lacey Russell, owner of Alice Creek Flowers. With low supplies nationwide and globally, local florists have turned…

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US: The local flower growers working round the clock to meet the demand for Mother's Day

Did you know many of the flowers sold across the country are grown right here on the Central and South Coast? A stone’s throw from the rumbling trucks and fast-moving traffic…
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US: Florists prepare for Mother’s Day

With Mother’s Day just around the corner, florists are preparing for a flood of customers. Forsberg’s New Leaf has already been preparing for over a week. Mother’s Day is…

North Callaway FFA floriculture team wins state competition

The North Callaway FFA Chapter won the floriculture career development event at the 94th Missouri FFA Convention, which took place April 21-22 in Columbia. Students were asked…

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One Minute off the North Fork: Tulip festival returns to Waterdrinker Farm

A million tulips have burst into bloom at Waterdrinker Family Farm & Garden in Manorville. The colorful rows are reminiscent of the vivid, expansive fields in the Netherlands…

New greenhouse screens with an 8-year warranty

For more than 30 years, Phormium has been providing the horticulture sector with greenhouse screens. Unlike other traditional knitted screens, most Phormium screens are woven,…

Québec grower invests in new LED grow lights

Wanting to waste no time outfitting her new strawberry greenhouse with the most advanced technology, Magalie Rajotte, owner of Les Serres de la Vallière in Saint-Hyacinthe,…

András Szabo, Zeiler’s, receives alerts when plants are stressed

"Automated real-time stress alerts from your plants increase yields"

Vivent’s innovative biosensors detect stress signals in the plant’s internal network long before visible symptoms appear. Monitoring crop health in real-time shows when plants…

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Mother's Day flowers inspected on invasive bugs

Who doesn't love getting flowers any time of the year? And with Mother's Day coming up, one of the biggest bouquet days of the year in the United States, you may not know that…

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Floriculture for increasing Indian farmers income: Fitting in the present cropping system

Indian agriculture is witnessing a gradual change and the trend of the last few decades shows diversification from field crops toward horticultural crops. In terms of…

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Kenya: Unions seek review of flower workers' terms

As the world marked Labor Day on Sunday, stakeholders expressed their concern over the continued casualization of labor by various flower farms. They noted that some farms in…

Bloomin’ Easy makes online shopping even easier for young homeowners

Bloomin’ Easy announces the opening of the new and improved bloomineasyplants.com, complete with direct-to-consumer purchasing of the brand’s exclusive,…

Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme to alleviate fruit picker shortage

This month the federal government merged the Pacific Labour Scheme and the Seasonal Worker Program into one. The revised Pacific Australia Labour Mobility…

Fulco Wijdooge, general manager Ridder China

"Invest time in training and chances of success increase exponentially.”

More and more Dutch companies are getting into the Chinese market. Ridder is definitely one of the pioneers, as the company has been active in Asia for years. Fulco Wijdooge,…

Amanda Kloots talks about Broadway, grief, and the power of flowers

When Jim McCann interviewed Amanda Kloots over Zoom for the most recent Celebrations Book Club event, it felt like two friends connecting about all the things that matter in…

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