All Flowers articles – Page 49
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Veg seed sales take off
The trend highlighted in a press report this week that vegetable seeds sales to householders are outstripping those of flower seeds for the first time since World War II could be beneficial for the UK fresh produce industry.
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Royal Show welcomes youngest-ever director
The Royal Show has appointed its youngest-ever honorary show director, Mark Spencer, 37, from Mapperley Plains in Nottinghamshire.
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ArticleEast Malling scientist honoured
David Johnson, head of post-harvest research at East Malling Research (EMR), has been awarded the Marsh Horticultural Research Award by the RHS.
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The farm that specialises in everything
For one north west grower, ‘diversification’ has become his specialty.
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RHS calls for Britain's blooming neighbourhoods
The Royal Horticultural Society is calling for entries to the Britain in Bloom Neighbourhood Awards, its new campaign to encourage small resident-led communities to improve their local environments with flowers and plants.
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Flanders offers rare insight into Royal Greenhouses
Flanders is offering up a horticultural opportunity next week, with the opening of the Royal Greenhouses of Laken.
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Chelsea is eco-paradise
This year’s Chelsea Flower Show will be used as a launch platform for a range of innovative and eccentric ‘green’ projects.
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Tanzanian sector in recruitment drive
Tanzania’s infant horticulture sub-sector is set to create around 20,000 job opportunities for the local population over the next three years.
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ArticlePotatoes from across time
Thompson & Morgan is putting potatoes squarely in the spotlight as it puts 100 varieties on display at the Thompson & Morgan/Three Countries Potatoes stand at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.
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ArticleEcuador gears up for UK flower market
A three-year campaign to boost Ecuadorian rose exports to the UK kicked off last week driven by new brand Rosas Del Ecuador - Best in the World.
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Wiltshire powers into finals
Patrick Wiltshire has buzzed his way to victory again in the Northern Regional Final of the Institute of Horticulture’s Young Horticulturist of the Year Competition,
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Syngenta to acquire Fischer
Syngenta is set to acquire vegetative flowers company Fischer Group for around £34 million.
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ArticlePositive prognosis for season
Indications are that ornamental sales through the garden retail sector are looking up this year
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African horticulture forms new trade group
A regional network for horticultural producers in East and southern Africa has been launched as part of an ongoing effort to ensure that Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) which are meant to replace the current trading regime with the EU are signed by the end of December 2007.
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ArticleColegrave unveils new range
Ball Colegrave has unveiled a multitude of new varieties to support an increasing appetite for autumn colour at retail and in landscape bedding.
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Pyrastrobin and boscalid evaluated
Results of trial work in fruit and vegetables show that in addition to the disease control of bacteria and virus infection by the two fungicides involved - pyrastrobin and boscalid - they can also play an equally key role in boosting a crop’s own defence mechanisms.
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ArticleS&G extends pansy range
S&G Flowers has extended its Delta range to include three of the highest regarded pansy and viola varieties available.
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ArticleGeraud looks to score for Liverpool
Geraud UK, owner of Liverpool wholesale fruit and vegetable market, has this week begun a nine-week evaluation of the market’s potential with a view to creating a “future-proof” market for the north-west.
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Regional growing boasts big ideas
A project in Midlands horticulture is allowing smaller growers to punch outside of their weight division.
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Ethiopian flower sector in full bloom
Ethiopian deputy prime minister Addisu Legesse has said the government is committed to developing the country’s horticulture sector.