Entries came in thick and fast for the 2024 Innovert New Plants and Products Awards, widely regarded as the Césars…
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A group of 50 green professionals and trend watcher Chlorosphère joined forces in Renatura, a project designed to rethink the…
While B2B trade shows around the world seek to redefine themselves, the organisers of the 36th edition of the Salon…
In this exclusive interview, Air France KLM Martinair Cargo’s newly appointed global head of Perishable Logistics, Mr Luc Diebold, shares…
France has a new minister of agriculture, food security and forestry. Annie Genevard was named France’s new agriculture minister in…
Preparations are underway for the 38th SIVAL, France’s premier commercial plant cultivation show that will return to Angers between 16-18…
At France’s 2024 plant cultivation show Sival, growers, researchers, breeders, and other stakeholders from the country’s agricultural and horticultural industry…
Amid mounting pressure within the ornamentals sector to curtail and eliminate conventional synthetic plant protection products, FCI sat down with…
The Trial Commission of the International Hardy Plant Union (ISU) has announced the winners of this year’s ISU Awards, recognising…
Collaboration between perennial plant growers and local city councils is vital for successful planning and planting of urban greenery. This…
French industry veteran, agricultural engineer, horticultural journalist, contributing writer for FCI magazine, and business consultant Marie Françoise Petitjean will launch…
The International Hardy Plant Union has announced changes in its executive leadership at the recently held ISU Summer Days event…
Recent farmer protests engulfing large parts of Western Europe are proof of the frequently bitter relationship between farmers and supermarkets,…
More than 5,000 chrysanthemums created a rolling kaleidoscope of colour at Printemps Palladien, a flower festival held in the gardens…
The 13th edition of Floralies Internationales Nantes – which has changed its name into Floralies Internationales France – will be…
France’s biennial horticultural trade show Salon du Végétal returns to the Parc des Expositions convention centre in Angers between 10-12…
Soparco, a French manufacturer of horticultural pots and containers, acknowledges that the environmental impact of plastic waste has become a…
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Robert Mathis, former President of the International Association of…
Franco-Dutch RED Horticulture, a supplier of LED lighting solutions, in association with the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund (ECBF), Demeter IM…
SIVAL, France’s premier commercial plant cultivation show, will return to the Parc des Expositions in Angers, France, between 16-18 January…
Red Horticulture, an award-winning French designer, manufacturer and supplier of LED lighting solutions for greenhouse horticulture, opened on 6 April…
France’s Sival show connects professionals from the protected cropping industry, the arable sector, viticulture, oenology, arboriculture, and seed industry with…
France hosted the first tulip mega-cutting garden in France when 2,200 residents from Saint-Denis picked a free bouquet of tulips…
After Beringen in Belgium in 2020 and Nantes in France in 2021, Alkmaar in the Netherlands has won the 2022…
ALMERE, Netherlands: The International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH), the world’s champion for the power of plants, has approved the…
ANGERS, France: Anticipation is building with the International Horticultural Congress only a few days away. IHC2022, is the 31st International…
RIANS, France: A delegation of biocontrols supplier Biobest attended the official opening of Les Cagettes de Noel, a state-of-the-art photovoltaic…
PARIS, France: For the third consecutive year, Floréac, a specialist in importing and exporting houseplants, has won Best Houseplant Supplier…
Francesco Mattina was appointed as President of the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) by the Council of the European Union…
ANGERS, France: After an unavoidable two+ year hiatus due the pandemic, France’s iconic horticultural trade show Salon du Végétal returns…
PARIS, France: Air France-KLM Group has forged a 10-year deal with CMA CGM Group. This exclusive partnership will see both…
PARIS, France: Val’Hor, the collective voice for individual businesses within France’s ornamental horticulture, is reintroducing itself with a fresh, distinguished…
ANGERS, France: France’s leading agricultural trade show wrapped up on 17 March 2022. Highlights included the announcement of Hoogendoorn Growth…
TURIN, Italy: Piedmont-born Arianna Giardino, winner of Asproflor’s 2021 Miss Comuni Fioriti (Miss Communities in Bloom) pageant will be the…
ANGERS, France: The VIII International Symposium on Rose Research and Cultivation due to take place between 18-22 April 2022 in…
ANGERS, France: The organisers of France’s leading agricultural trade show SIVAL postpone its trade show, initially scheduled to be held…
PARIS, France: French media company Media Jardin Groupe J announced the winners of the 2021 Graines d’Or Awards during a…
PARIS, France: France’s horticultural media outlet Fleurnews reports that Végétal Group, a grower and distributor of houseplants, garden plants and…
ALLONNES, France: Flamingo International, a supplier of cut flowers and prepared vegetables to most of the UK’s leading retailers, is…
VELINES/ PARIS, France: Rosedor, a grower’s cooperative and a wholesale distributor of flowers and plants (running 9 cash and carry…
PARIS, France: Catherine Muller has been elected as President of Val’Hor as Mikäel Mercier stands down after three years of…
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica: Webinar organiser, radio broadcaster, content marketing specialist and networking organiser Jungle Talks, in association with the…
LYON, France: Botanic’s Luc Blanchet, CEO of one of France’s leading garden centre chains, and the group’s general director Eric…
MISHMAR HASHIVA, Israel: Israel-based plant breeder and propagator Danziger today announced the expansion of its international sales team, appointing Xavier…
BORDEAUX, France: Flora Nova, a French conglomerate of flower merchandising businesses Le Jardin des Fleurs and Oya Fleurs, are delighted…
AUBIGNE-SUR-LAYON, France: Philippe Lamy, former director of France’s leading floral design school La Piverdie passed away on 14 August after…
LONDON, UK: British online flower delivery service Bloom & Wild has bought French rival Bergamotte, creating the largest online business…
PARIS, France: Lights. Camera. Action. French horticulture will be blooming in a new film starring Catherine Frot, who plays a…
PARIS, France: Val’Hor, the umbrella organisation for ornamental horticulture in France (regrouping all trade unions from the ornamental sector, from…
PARIS, France: Reacting to the announcement from France’s PM Jean Castex that florists and garden centres can stay open during…
NANTES, France: Nearly eighteen months since the AIPH-approved Floralies Internationales Nantes closed its doors, its organising committee has posted a…
Author: Ron van der Ploeg PARIS, France: More than ten of France’s most significant players in food, including nearly all…
Harnessing the power of technology and at the same time reconciling social and environmental responsibility, is a huge accomplishment. One…
Author: Ron van der Ploeg PARIS, France: Being part of the French ornamental horticulture is not easy these days with…
29 October, PARIS, France: Today, the President of the French florist association Fédération Française des Artisans Fleuristes, signed a heartfelt…
PARIS, France: Garden centres and florists in France face another blow after the government has forced them to shut just…
PARIS, France: Autumn is the perfect time for planting; autumn foliage colours galore and soil temperatures are still warm enough…
PARIS, France: Benoît Ganem, chief executive officer at *Flora Nova and president of the Coronavirus crisis committee set up on…
Television advertisement campaign ‘Mission: Végétal’ is back on the Channel M6 screens with 85 episodes until 27 December 2020, and…
PARIS, France: To accurately reflect its expanding mission of serving the French garden centre and pet industry, Les Jardineries &…
Bordeaux’s newly elected major Pierre Hurmic, a member of the French Green Party Europe Ecologie Les Verts, refuses to erect…
ANGERS, France: France’s Salon du Végétal has rescheduled its upcoming trade show due to the Covid-19 crisis and subsequent travel…
VAL’HOR, the umbrella organisation for ornamental horticulture in France, (regrouping all trade unions from the ornamental sector, from growers to…
After a third year of disappointing attendance at Salon du Végétal, Nantes, the horticultural trade show’s organisers have made the…
LES PONTS DE CE, France: Syngenta Flowers and Chalon-sur-Saône celebrate the event by preparing a surprise at the arrival of…
“If life is nothing more than a passage, let’s at least sow flowers along it.” (Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (b.…
ANGERS, France: FCI made a visit to GEVES (Groupe d’Etude et de contrôle des Variétés Et des Semences) to find…
PARIS, France: Dutch certification scheme MPS and its French counterpart Plante Bleue, a sustainability initiative of inter-professional organisation VAL’HOR, have…
Végétaliser la vie, positioning flowers and plants as something simply irresistible in daily life, while highlighting how green spaces are…
On January 18, 2019, shareholders of German plant breeder and propagator Selecta one acquired a further 40% of the shares…
ANGERS, France: Show organiser BHR (The Regional Horticultural Office) has officially changed the dates for the 2019 Salon du Végétal.…
Paris, France: It is with a mix of sadness and gratitude that the French florist chain Emova announces Anne Fège’s…
PARIS, France: FNMJ (Fédération Nationale des Métiers de la Jardinerie), representing the leading garden centres in France, reported the country’s…
‘Friendly by Nature’ was the motto for the 2018 Salon du Végétal which was held for the second consecutive year…
Founded in Brest in 1944 by Pierre Stervinou, the Stervinou nursery has been in business for over 70 years. A…
NANTES, France: The Floralies – Nantes, most prestigious flower show in France taking place every five years, invites all industry…
What on earth made BIOAGRUMES switch from flowering pot plants to citrus forcing, while also introducing organic plants with ready-to-eat…