FlowerTrials 2024 – Chapter 4

FlowerTrials, the annual open days for the global bedding plant industry, was back in bloom from 11-14 June 2024, attracting…

HAPPY NEW YEAR

WISHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY HEALTH, HAPPINESS, AND PROSPERITY IN THE NEW YEAR. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT IN…

Discover Italian horticulture

Italy is a country with a great ornamental horticulture tradition dating back to the Roman era. The industry is still…

FlowerTrials 2024 – Chapter 3

FlowerTrials, the annual open days for the global bedding plant industry, was back in bloom from 11-14 June 2024, attracting…

Expo 2024 Chengdu in full bloom

FCI’s editor dashed to Chengdu, where the gargantuan international horticultural exhibition Expo 2024 Chengdu is designed to delight, nurture, and…

IPM Essen revamps floorplan

Germany’s horticultural trade exhibition IPM Essen last week announced that it has revamped its show floor layout which will see…

VGB‘s conference has an impact

The Dutch Association of Wholesalers in Floricultural Products (VGB) hosted a conference to share the latest practices in sustainable horticulture…

Tulips galore at Expo 2024 Chengdu

On Friday 26 April, the  International Horticultural Exhibition 2024 Chengdu opened its gates in the Chinese city of Chengdu. With…

IPM Essen attendance declines 9%

This year’s 40th IPM Essen show occurred in Essen, Germany, between 23 and 26 January 2024. It featured 1,403 exhibitors…

Counting down to Myplant&Garden in Milan

The 8th edition of Italy’s most influential commercial ornamental horticulture event, Myplant&Garden opens tomorrow in Milan and will last until…

Midwinter Plant Fair 2024 Review

Royal FloraHoland’s Midwinter Plant Fair, held between 10 and 11 January 2024, featured nearly a hundred plant exhibitors spread across…

Introducing the new-look Anthura

In 2020, Anthura won the AIPH International Grower of the Year Award. A lot has changed since then. FCI interviews…

IPM ESSEN celebrates 40 years

IPM Essen is arguably the world’s premier horticultural trade exhibition. Next week, it will be 40 years since trade show…

Ten Questions: Greenn

GREENN is an enterprise created by Maaike Koop that offers horticultural companies tailor-made support to help them get the most…

Proflora makes a colourful comeback

In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Proflora 2023 was, in the words of many attendees, ‘the best edition ever’. The…

Are you ready for Trade Fair Aalsmeer?

Anticipation is building as green professionals line up to join the 24th Trade Fair Aalsmeer. Bringing ‘the world’s largest selection…

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Are we preparing for a peat-free future?

The International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) will be debating sustainable growing media solutions and industry readiness in a panel…

SGD Soirée at LANDSCAPE 2023

LANDSCAPE – The Industry Trade Show and the SGD – Society of Garden Designers have joined together to put on…

A new date for Expo 2023 Kahramanmaraş

The International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) welcomes rescheduling the opening for Expo Kahramanmaraş 2023 to Saturday, 12 August, considering…

Tulip time in the Netherlands

The Dutch cut tulip season kicked off on National Tulip Day, Saturday, 21 January. This year marked the first time…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

From all of us in the FCI Newsroom. May the new year bring you health, peace, prosperity and much fun.

ExpoFlor Ecuador 2022 review

After a four-year hiatus, ExpoFlor Ecuador 2022 opened its doors to a floral extravaganza. FCI’s correspondent William Armellini travelled to…

Flormart 2022 exceeds expectations

Italy’s second-largest trade show and conference for the horticultural sector took place at Padua’s PadovaFiere convention centre from 21 to…

Bulb planting time at Keukenhof

Autumn is the time for planting spring-blooming flower bulbs. The gardeners at the most beautiful spring garden in the world…

Colombia’s Industry Champions

Asocolflores, the official voice of Colombia’s flower cut flower and cut foliage export, held its inaugural Floriculture Congress, and celebrated…

‘It’s like heaven to me’

Karen Tambayong is an AIPH member representative in Southeast Asia and Oceania. She is active in the Indonesian Flower Association,…

HPP postpones its 2022 Agriflor show

QUITO, Ecuador, AMSTERDAM, Netherlands: HPP’s biennial Agriflor show due to take place in Quito’s Centro de Exposiciones during the first…

Flormart is ready for a grand comeback

PADUA, Italy: Having celebrated its 70th edition in grand style in 2019, one of Europe’s oldest horticultural trade exhibitions, Flormart,…

Summer showcase at Floriade

ALMERE, Netherlands:  Summer flower grower Paul Vernooij and Team The Greenhouse have been named the supreme winners of Floriade’s seventh…

Floriade: the Expo will go on

On the evening of Thursday, 30 June, I watched a live stream of Almere’s Municipal Council meeting. High on its…

Val’Hor to unveil new brand identity

PARIS, France: Val’Hor, the collective voice for individual businesses within France’s ornamental horticulture, is reintroducing itself with a fresh, distinguished…

ANVE wins top prizes at Euroflora

GENOA, Italy: The National Association of Nursery Stock Exporters (ANVE)’s depiction of century-long landscape changes has scooped up top prizes…

Flowers speak when words fail

In the days leading up to the opening of its famous spring gardens on 24 March, Keukenhof releases this picture…

Iberflora announces major overhaul

VALENCIA, Spain: Event organiser Feria Valencia today announced a major overhaul for the 2022 edition of Iberflora, Spain’s premier horticultural…

IPM ESSEN postponed until 2023

ESSEN, Germany: IPM ESSEN, scheduled for 25 to 28 January 2022, cannot take place due to the currently difficult pandemic…

Flormart is ready for its 2022 come back

PADUA, Italy: Having celebrated its 70th edition in grande stile in 2019, one of Europe’s oldest horticultural trade exhibitions, Flormart, is undergoing a major…

Register now to attend TPIE 2022

TAMPA, USA: Registration for the Tropical Plant International Expo (TPIE) is now live. The event is set to take place…

Between pandemic and plantdemic

DIDCOT, United Kingdom: Between pandemic and plantdemic: how can the industry sustain the houseplant trend? This was one of the question…

Flormart stays true to its hometown Padua

PADUA, Italy: Having celebrated its 70th edition in grande stile in 2019, one of Europe’s oldest horticultural trade exhibitions, Flormart, is undergoing a…

GROEN-Direkt announces its Autumn Fair

HAZERSWOUDE/BOSKOOP, Netherlands: GROEN-Direkt, organiser of one of Europe’s largest trolley fairs, today announced its Autumn Fair which will take place…

Seeking sustainable growing media

As an industry, we produce products that naturally contribute to the sustainability of the world. But are we able to…

FlowerTrials® cancels 2021 edition

VOORHOUT, Netherlands: While the mood was still cautiously optimistic a few weeks ago, the ongoing and unstable situation in regard…

Varb and GrootGroenPlus to join forces again

ZUNDERT, Netherlands: This year, the world’s premier amenity plant show, GrootGroenPlus, and the not-for-profit foundation Varb, an online marketplace for trees,…

Flower Show Turkey/Eurasia Plant Fair 

Author and photos: Ron van der Ploeg Turkey’s fledgeling ornamental horticulture industry has made significant progress since the first large-scale…

Flanders’ Florall show cancels again

SINT-DENIJS-WESTREM, Belgium: With much regret, the organising committee of Florall has agreed that the 2021 spring edition of Florall must…

New dates for ISF World Seed Congress

NYON, Switzerland: The International Seed Federation together with the Spanish National Organising Committee (NOC) continue to prepare the way for…

Anthura vies for King Willem I Award

BLEISWIJK, Netherlands: Anthurium and Phalaenopsis breeder and propagator Anthura, winner of the 2019 AIPH International Grower of the Year Award,…

IPM Essen reschedules

ESSEN, Germany: The world’s premier horticultural trade show IPM ESSEN joins the never-ending list of cancelled and postponed events this…

spoga+gafa reschedules

COLOGNE, Germany: Trade show organiser Koelnmesse  has announced that its garden and outdoor living trade show spoga+gafa will no longer…

GreenTech opts for a dual format

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands: Trade show organiser RAI Amsterdam has informed exhibitors that its trade show GreenTech will take place using a…

GreenTech Amsterdam reschedules

AMSTERDAM,  Netherlands: GreenTech Amsterdam, hosted by RAI Amsterdam, has been rescheduled because of Coronavirus. The three-day event, originally scheduled 8-10…

Iran to celebrate Nowruz

TEHRAN, Iran: On 21 March, Iranians around the world will celebrate the Persian New Year, or Nowruz. For the occasion,…

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British Group at IPM Essen 2020

BRASTED, UK: The Commercial Horticultural Association (CHA) is once again organising the British Group at IPM Essen, supported by the…

Dutch Flower Awards Winners 2019

AALSMEER, Netherlands: The Dutch Flower Group (DFG) hosted its annual Dutch Flower Awards ceremony at the FloraHolland Trade Fair on…

Full house for Trade Fair Aalsmeer

AALSMEER, Netherlands: Anticipation is building as industry professionals from the Netherlands, and around the world, line up to join the…

Late bird registration Floriforum

BRUSSELS, Belgium: How to adapt and thrive in an era of automation, digitalisation, AI, shifting trade policy and rising labour…

Flormart celebrates 70th anniversary
Flormart celebrates 70th anniversary

PADUA, Italy: Celebrating its 70th anniversary, Flormart returned to Padua on 26-28 September 2019. Show organiser Cristiana Bertero and her…

Counting down to 37th Plantarium

BOSKOOP, Netherlands: There is only one day to go until Boskoop’s International Trade Centre will host the 37th edition of Plantarium.…

Old format, New Flormart

Celebrating its 70th edition in grande stile this year, one of Europe’s oldest horticultural trade exhibitions Flormart is undergoing a…

GreenTech reports 20% increase in attendees

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands:  The fourth edition of the horticultural technology trade show GreenTech, welcomed 12,489 attendees from 114 countries; an attendance…

GreenTech reports 20% increase in attendees

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands:  The fourth edition of the horticultural technology trade show GreenTech, welcomed 12,489 attendees from 114 countries; an attendance…

GreenTech expands into Mexico

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands:  The world’s premier horticultural technology show GreenTech has announced it will expand its international network by opening a…

Cupid strikes Keukenhof visitors

LISSE, Netherlands: Tapping into the power of love, Danziger, collaborating with Florensis, Imperial Plants and Bongartz, planted a spectacular, heart-shaped…

Counting down to CIOPORA’s 58th AGM

CIOPORA, the International Association of Breeders of Asexually Reproduced Ornamental and Fruit Varieties, will host members and friends from around…

It’s Festivalisation Time!
It’s Festivalisation Time!

The complete overhaul of the east wing of Messe Essen’s convention centre has taken some time but Oliver P. Kuhrt,…

Chrysanthemum Masquerade in Russia

SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia: Nobody does Christmas and New Year like the Russians! Dutch Chrysanthemums joined the party. Taking place for…

Welcome to tulip time in Antwerp

The official start of Belgium’s 100-day tulip season launched last Saturday with a mega cutting garden at Antwerp’s Queen Astrid…

IPM ESSEN expands into Mexico

The world’s premier show for ornamental horticulture, IPM ESSEN, today announced it will continue to expand its international network by…

Inside Green is Life 2018

The predominance of family-owned and run businesses in Poland’s nursery stock industry brings strength to this industry through continuity of…

Remember, remember 13th November!

DIDCOT, UK: This is the final call to join friends and colleagues attending Cultivating Retail – the new one-day Conference…

2018 Taichung World Flora Expo Opens

The 2018 Taichung World Flora Expo (A2/B1), approved by the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH), opened in spectacular style…

Cultivating Business in Columbus

The largest floriculture event on the North American calendar was Cultivate’18, held July 14-17 in Columbus, Ohio. A smallish city…

Salon du Végétal announces new dates

ANGERS, France: Show organiser BHR (The Regional Horticultural Office) has officially changed the dates for the 2019 Salon du Végétal.…

Oserian reigns supreme at FKE Awards

Social responsibility, innovation and inclusivity and diversity in the workplace were the highlight of the night at the recent FKE…

Jungle Talks

NAALDWIJK, the Netherlands: On Thursday 11th October, Jungle Talks and the University of Professional Education, InHolland Delft, are holding a…

Plantarium

BOSKOOP, Netherlands: The results of Plantarium 2018 are clear: the road taken is a good one and has given us…

Plantarium 2018

BOSKOOP, the Netherlands: ‘Let’s make the world greener together.’ It was under this motto that, from 22 to 24 August,…

Plantarium Winners Revealed

BOSKOOP, Netherlands: Buddleja davidii ‘SMNBDBT’ (ROCKETSTAR INDIGO), submitted by Valkplant BV from Boskoop, has been selected as the Best in…

Plantarium 2018

BOSKOOP, the Netherlands: Plantarium 2018 is in the starting blocks. The floor plan has been finalised and the outlines of…

Plantarium

BOSKOOP, the Netherlands: Traditionally,  at the end of august it is Plantarium time, the leading international tree nursery trade fair.…

Rijnsburg Flower Parade

RIJNSBURG, the Netherlands: Huge crowds who will watch over 250,000 flowers on floats and cars. Dancing and singing actors on…

Agriflor 2018 is around the corner

QUITO, Ecuador: In less than 3 months the 20th edition of the international flower trade exhibition AGRIFLOR will take place…

Beijing Expo

DIDCOT, UK: International Horticultural Exhibition 2019 Beijing China (hereinafter referred to as Beijing Expo), which was accredited by AIPH and recognized…

Lily League

POELDIJK, The Netherlands: Well before the auction clock at 11 am, Gerard Vermeulen, lily specialist and auctioneer at Royal FloraHolland,…

AIPH IGOTY
AIPH IGOTY

In January 2018 Ter Laak Orchids won the AIPH International Grower of the Year Award 2018 (IGOTY) and scooped the AIPH…

Expo Flor Ecuador 2018

Ecuador has around 600 varieties of flowers. At Expo Flor Ecuador, guests will be able to meet 80 flower producers…

What is new and hot in cut flowers?

AALSMEER, Netherlands: At the Royal FloraHolland Trade Fair Aalsmeer and IFTF Vijfhuizen thousands of people will come to see what’s…

Upbeat mood at IPM ESSEN 2018

ESSEN, Germany: Attention focused on sales concepts oriented to consumers and trends. From January 23 to 26, IPM ESSEN was…

Three trade shows under one roof

Iberflora, the inaugural editions of the fruit and vegetable trade show, Vegetal World and the logistics exhibition, Encaja, were held…