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German Klasmann-Deilmann, a leading corporate group in the international substrate industry, has confirmed its presence at the fortcoming IPM Essen…
Flower and plant auction Veiling Rhein-Maas has confirmed its presence at the IPM Essen show taking place between 28 –…
German perennial seed supplier Jelitto Staudensamen highlights its new BeeFoxy series comprising six F1 hybrid varieties of Digitalis purpurea as…
Kötterheinrich Hortensienkulturen from Lengerich in association with the Dutch/German Hydrangea Breeders Association (HBA) will launch dwarf Hydrangea paniculata Bloomulus –…
Registration is already open for IPM Essen, Tuesday 28 January through Friday, 31 January, at the Messe Essen convention centre.…
The Show Your Colours Award IPM 2025, organised by Messe Essen in association with BIZZ Communications, is now open for…
On the eve of the association’s centennial, UFI, The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, announces the revival of its…
Orbia’s precision agriculture business Netafim and Bayer announced today an expansion of their strategic collaboration, starting with new digital farming…
Germany’s Federal Association of Horticulture, ZVG, announced in September that Eva Kähler-Theuerkauf has been elected chairman of the association, commencing…
The CIOPORA Academy announces September webinars on country-specific PVP systems and AI applications
The CIOPORA Academy Webinar Series has announced this year’s second set of lectures for September. The new series is designed…
The first Euro Plant Tray rolled off the production line in August, marking the beginning of what will hopefully evolve…
Germany’s horticultural trade exhibition IPM Essen last week announced that it has revamped its show floor layout which will see…
After this year’s successful Annual General Meeting in Marrakesh, the next CIOPORA AGM in 2025 will occur in Kunming, China,…
IPM Essen’s new Young Plant Forum brings together young plant growers, researchers and business leaders for four days of presentations,…
Euro Plant Tray (EPT) has inked strategic partnerships with service providers HB RTS , Inotec and EECC for logistics solutions.…
Preparations are underway for Germany’s once-in-a-decade International Garden Exhibition 2027, also known as IGA Metropole Ruhr 2027. In the former…
German plant breeder and propagator Selecta One has acquired UK-based Whetman Plants International (WPI), a company dedicated to the breeding,…
Breeding the new Gypsophila variety ‘Grandtastic’ was, as Selecta Cut Flowers calls it, a masterstroke, “a creation worth an art…
If the horticulture industry is to grow its products responsibly, effectively, and efficiently using growing media, it must innovate. This…
Ornamental plant breeder Selecta One has entered into a global licensing agreement with Dümmen Orange for the use of the…
The German competition and markets authority, Bundeskartellamt, has given the green light to horticultural companies that team up with Euro…
Micaela Filippo has been appointed as the new Deputy Secretary General of CIOPORA, the International Association of Breeders of Asexually…
IPM Essen and Landgard have announced a partnership. In a joint announcement made this week, Oliver P. Kuhrt, CEO of…
This year’s 40th IPM Essen show occurred in Essen, Germany, between 23 and 26 January 2024. It featured 1,403 exhibitors…
Figures released by market analyst Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft (AMI) and Close to Green, the trade publication of the German Association of…
The spoga+gafa trade exhibition for the garden and outdoor living sector returns to Cologne on 16-18 June 2024, coincidentally at…
Hortiflorexpo China, China’s premier horticultural trade exhibition, and German trade show organiser Messe Essen, have signed an agreement to extend…
Stuttgart-based plant breeder and propagator Selecta One has acquired the breeding portfolio of Italian carnation breeder Moraglia from San Remo.…
IPM Essen is arguably the world’s premier horticultural trade exhibition. Next week, it will be 40 years since trade show…
Europe’s growing media industry is in the process of transition. There’s an overall consensus that companies need to accelerate the…
Plant breeder and propagator Selecta One from Germany is again taking the opportunity to present excitingly new flowers and bedding…
Trade visitors at the world’s premier horticultural trade show can look forward to numerous programme highlights. From 23 to 26…
Floramedia Germany GmbH, a specialist company in horticultural print, and supplier for POS, plant labels, pot covers, seed packets or…
Germany’s IPM Essen show and the horticultural trade exhibition HortEx in Vietnam have inked a partnership agreement. The move will…
Bayer today announced at Agritechnica, a Hanover-based trade show for agricultural machinery, an update on the strategic collaboration with Microsoft.…
Between 3-4 October 2023, Fleuroselect, the international organisation for the ornamental plants industry, invited breeders and distributors of pot and…
CIOPORA, the International Association of Breeders of Asexually Reproduced Horticultural Varieties, provides the most up-to-date EU Plant Breeders’Rights (PBR) data…
Plant breeder and propagator Selecta One from Germany is again taking the opportunity to present excitingly new flowers and bedding…
Germany’s Import Promotion Desk (IPD), an initiative established by the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services (BGA) and…
Germany’s horticultural trade show IPM Essen and florist association FDF announce a new Best Practice Award for exhibitors. Green professionals…
Growcoon Progressive, the fastest-decomposing Growcoon plant plug, has achieved ‘OK Compost Home’ certification. Issuing body TÜV Austria confirms, that Growcoon…
IPM Essen is arguably the world’s premier horticultural trade exhibition. Next year, it will be 40 years since the very…
Klasmann-Deilmann and Maan Biobased Products will display their innovative substrate Nygaia at the world’s leading greenhouse technology show GreenTech, which…
CIOPORA, the International Association of Breeders of Asexually Reproduced Horticultural Varieties, held its Annual General Meeting on 17-20 April 2023…
Delphy, the Dutch knowledge-sharing organisation and service provider for horticulturalists worldwide, has appointed Michael Penzkofer as its news liaison manager…
GLOBALG.A.P.’s Dr Kristian Moeller discusses the merits of the organisation’s new Integrated Farm Assurance (IFA) revised standard – Version 6,…
German seed breeder Benary has appointed Arun Sharma as Global Head of Breeding. Arun Sharma is known in our industry…
The global health crisis fuelled a boom in home gardening and grow-your-own, leading to good times for German garden centres.…
Stuttgart-based ornamental plant breeder and propagator Selecta One has warned industry professionals against infringement, abuse and misuse of its Pink…
From 24 January to 27, IPM Essen at Messe Essen finally welcomed visitors to the world of horticulture again. According…
Bayer and the agricultural biotech company Oerth Bio have announced a new collaboration seeking to develop the next generation of…
At the recently held IPM Essen show in Germany, the GLOBALG.A.P. certification scheme presented a range of sustainable solutions. A…
With 1,330 exhibitors from 46 nations and 40,000 visitors from 100 countries, IPM Essen 2023 gave centre stage to climate…
Brookdale Treeland Nurseries Ltd (BTN), a Canadian ornamentals grower, has been awarded the title of International Grower of the Year…
IPM Essen, the world’s premier horticultural trade exhibition, will finally return in January to Essen, Germany, after a three-year break…
German perennial seed supplier Jelitto Staudensamen from Schwarmstedt has highlighted the pure white Bergenia cordifolia ‘Snowtime’ as an absolute showstopper…
The International Hardy Plant Union (ISU) will embark on a botanical excursion that will examine the internationally important flora of…
IPM Essen, the world’s premier horticultural trade show, will be prominently present in the Germany pavilion at Growtech Turkey, taking…
Modern technology can be an instrument to make horticultural production fit for the future. With this in mind show organiser…
Monnheim-based Bayer announced last week the acquisition of German biotech start-up Targenomix. The spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for…
It was a big night for potted herb grower Frank Köllen, who was honoured with the Taspo/IPM Gold Entrepreneur of…
‘Pink Flower Carpet’, the Mother of all Flower Carpet roses, has been awarded a place in the Rose Hall of…
The current energy crisis and rising inflation were on everyone’s lips at the annual gathering of Germany’s top botanic gardens…
Great Britain is a partner country at the IPM Essen plant show, taking place at Messe Essen between 24-27 January…
Four cut flower purchasers from Germany and the Netherlands embarked on a floral trade mission to Colombia in the first…
Import Promotion Desk (IPD), an initiative established by the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services (BGA) and sequa…
Bayer in Monheim, Germany, recently announced that the company had closed the previously announced transaction with Ginkgo Bioworks to begin…
THIENDORF, Germany: Elsner pac ramps up production of an energy-saving range of larger young plants, semi-finished and pre-finished pot plants.…
HEIDENHEIM, Germany: It is with great sadness that Germany-based potting machine manufacturer Mayer Group announces the sudden passing of its…
MUNICH, Germany: On 31 August and 1 September 2022, Fleuroselect welcomed more than 80 delegates to Munich for the annual…
Anholt, Germany: For the coming bedding plant season 2022/2023, further innovations of the constantly growing pelargonium line ‘Solfaro’ will complete…
With mandatory carbon footprinting on the horizon, GLOBALG.A.P.’s Impact-Driven Approach (IDA) to the Sustainability module is helping the floriculture industry…
ESSEN, Germany: Messe Essen is to open its first brand store at the IPM Essen show which will be held…
MONHEIM, Germany: Bayer, Bunge and Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (Chevron), a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, have signed a shareholders’ agreement in…
HAMBURG, Germany: The global plant breeding community said goodbye to a truly inspirational figure on 26 June, when Ciopora’s first…
BONN/BERLIN, Germany: Import Promotion Desk (IPD), an initiative established by the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services (BGA)…
ROSTOCK, Germany: Germany’s leading horticultural media outlet Taspo (www.taspo.de) reports that the city of Rostock has officially cancelled the 2025…
Fleuroselect, the international organisation for the ornamental plants industry, is proud to announce that the FleuroStar Award 2022-23 crown is…
Members of Union Fleurs, the International Flower Trade Association, have elected a new President and Board of Directors on the…
ESSEN, Germany: Europe’s ornamental horticulture industry experienced an injection of inspiration and togetherness between 13-14 June at the IPM Summer…
Over 100 breeders, lawyers, and IP experts from over 20 countries met at CIOPORA’s Annual General Meeting in Cologne, Germany…
Sustainability is at the forefront of GLOBALG.A.P.’s revised Integrated Farm Assurance (IFA) scheme for floriculture. Juan Carlos Isaza, GLOBALG.A.P.’s senior…
Hops are hitting the shops in Germany this spring – and its thanks to “hopstimist” Richard Petri, founder of RiPlant.…
STUTTGART, Germany: In January, Selecta One joined the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI). The German breeding company supports the overarching FSI…
HAMBURG, Germany: Andrés Velásquez is the new Director of PR and Communication at CIOPORA, the International Association of Breeders of…
ESSEN, Germany: Due to the pandemic, the world’s leading trade fair for horticulture, IPM ESSEN, will not be held again…
Eva Kähler-Theuerkauf is President of Landesverband Gartenbau, Vice-President of Zentralverband Gartenbau, and owner of a lavender, perennials pot mum wholesale…
Hamburg, GERMANY: Thirteen leading cut rose breeders, organised in CIOPORA and its Crop Section Cut Rose IRBA, have called upon…
STUTTGART, Germany: German plant breeder and propagator Selecta One is pleased to announce the relaunch of its website that is…
Klasmann-Deilmann has launched a new substrate called Advanced. It sets the bar high for responsible horticulture combining the most valuable…
WEILER-SIMMERBERG, Germany: It is relevant that products are not purely generic and easy to replace. With this in mind, Richard…
HANN MUNDEN, Germany: Klaudia Benary-Redlefsen and Matthias Redlefsen say their final thank you to Nick as he retires from his…
MONHEIM, Germany: Today, Bayer, Bushel and Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled Project Carbonview. This has been conceptualised by Bayer and…
ESSEN, Germany: IPM ESSEN, scheduled for 25 to 28 January 2022, cannot take place due to the currently difficult pandemic…
BERLIN, Germany: My Christmas World, is a festive poinsettia pop-up store recently opened in Berlin’s 19th Heckmann-Höfe courtyard complex in…
SCHWARMSTEDT, Germany: German perennial seed supplier Jelitto Staudensamen has highlighted azure blue lathyrus vernus and tri-coloured allum schoenoprasum mix as…
ESSEN, Germany: Germany’s leading horticultural media outlet Taspo reports that the country’s federal government provides up to €12,500 to small…
ESSEN, Germany: Anticipation is building now that preparations for Jungle Talks’ third Pro Manager Mastercourse Floriculture are well underway. The…
LOHNE, Germany: German horticulture packaging and plastic manufacturer Pöppelmann TEKU® is pleased that wholesale plant grower TM Zierpflanzen GmbH from…
LEVERKUSEN, Germany: The Supervisory Board of Bayer AG has appointed Rodrigo Santos (48) to the company’s Board of Management and…
STUTTGART, Germany: Plant breeder and propagator Selecta One from Germany is again taking the opportunity to present excitingly new flowers…
BRUSSELS, Belgium, HAMBURG, Germany: A 30-year protection term under the Community Plant Variety Rights (CPVR) was voted overwhelmingly by the…
COLOGNE, Germany: With less than months to go, preparations for Germany’s premier garden and outdoor living trade show spoga+gafa are…
MUNICH, Germany: The European Nurserystock Association (ENA) held its summer meeting in Germany’s southern-most region Bavaria between 1 until 4…
HAMBURG, Germany: CIOPORA, the International Association of Breeders of Asexually Reproduced Ornamental and Fruit Varieties, will host members and friends…
BREMEN, Germany: RoBoTec PTC is delighted to announce that it has won Sparkasse Bremen and Starthaus Bremen’s annual Bremen Start-up…
ESSEN, Germany: Messe Essen, organiser of the world’s premier horticultural trade show IPM Essen, is adamant that the IPM show…
OLDENBURG, Germany: Floragard, a long-established and reputable manufacturer of exclusive growing media products and specialist mix substrates, is delighted to…
BAD AHRWEILER, Germany: Exceptionally heavy rain and flooding have caused severe damage to plant nurseries in Germany, with the states…
STUTTGART, Germany: Breeding and young plant company Selecta One announces that Nils Klemm has decided to end his role as…
STUTTGART, Germany: Selecta One once again presents its latest bedding and balcony plant products and highlights for the 2021/22 season…
STUTTGART, Germany: German breeder and propagator Selecta One has teamed up with research institute LVG (Staatliche Lehr- und Versuchanstalt für…
STUTTGART, Germany: German plant breeder and propagator Selecta One is pleased to announce it has purchased the complete Helleborus assortiment…
GELDERN-WALBECK, Germany: Dümmen Orange, the world’s largest breeder and propagator of cut flowers, bulbs, tropical plants, pot plants, bedding plants…
Germany, Lohne: The BASF Group’s agricultural research station requires plant pots in large quantities every year. Pöppelmann TEKU® supplies them…
Floragard is a long-established and reputable manufacturer of exclusive growing media products and specialist mix substrates, has successfully trialled its…
At the beginning of 2021, a well-known discussion was taken up again in Europe about the necessity for more sustainable…
BONN, Germany: The International Hardy Plant Union (ISU) is pleased to announce that its Perennial Trials are now also open…
COLOGNE, Germany: Trade show organiser Koelnmesse has announced that its garden and outdoor living trade show spoga+gafa will no longer…
LOHNE, Germany: As retail customers demand 100 per cent recyclable pots and containers, growers look to differentiate themselves with Pöppelmann…
BONN, Germany: During his keynote speech at the 2021 ISU expert Talks, British garden designer Noel Kingsbury encouraged the perennial…
PARIS, France: UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, has released the latest edition of its flagship Global Barometer…
BONN, Germany: The International Hardy Plant Union (ISU) is pleased to announce that British garden designer, researcher and writer Noel…
STUTTGART, Germany: German ornamental plant breeder and propagator Selecta One has just released its 2021 Poinsettia catalogue online. Whether growers…
VIERSEN, Germany: Gartenbau Hörnes in Viersen, Germany will make it in the horticultural history books as being the world’s first…
LOHNE, Germany: German horticulture packaging and plastic manufacturer Pöppelmann TEKU® is pleased to announce that its Circular360 pots are now…
MAGDEBURG, Germany: Germany’s leading horticultural media outlet Taspo brings the news that the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt has announced its…
On Tuesday, 26 January 2021, industry thought leaders, politicians and other influential stakeholder from within the global ornamental horticulture industry…
COLOGNE, Germany: The number three trade show venue in Germany, Koelnmesse offers a behind-the-scenes look at Covid-19 practice. The #B-SAFE4business…
ESSEN, Germany: Nobody does trade fairs like the Germans. Even during a pandemic the (trade) show must go on, but…
Author: Ron van der Ploeg GEESTE, Germany: Klasmann-Deilmann, a leading corporate group in the international substrate industry, has announced it…
ERFURT, Germany: Germany’s biennial Bundesgartenshau (BUGA), also known as Federal Horticultural Show, is taking shape in readiness for the show,…
According to Messe Essen, the organiser of the annual IPM Essen show, the commitment among the industry to the world’s…
BONN, Germany: ISU, the International Hardy Plant Union, is proud to present ‘The Golden Quintet’ – five outstanding varieties that…
ANHOLT, Germany: Fleuroselect, the international organisation which represents breeders and producers of the starting material for pot and bedding plants, both…
Some of the first trade shows scheduled to take place in the ornamental horticulture industry include the iconic IPM Essen…
HANN MUNDEN, Germany: German seed breeder Benary has announced the appointment of Thomas Bousart as the company’s Europe and Emerging…
HEIDENHEIM, Germany: Potting machine manufacturer Mayer Planting Systems, takes its role as the grower’s trusted partner at heart, especially in…
ANDIJK, Netherlands: The strawberry variety, F1 Summer Breeze Snow from ABZ Seeds from Andijk, the Netherlands, was named the winner…
ESSEN, Germany: The 38th edition of the world’s premier trade show for ornamental horticulture, IPM Essen welcomed 54,000 attendees from…
Anthura BV, the Netherlands has been awarded the accolade of International Grower of the Year (IGOTY) 2020 by the International…
The 38th IPM ESSEN is returning to Essen, Germany from 28-31 January, 2020, staged by Messe Essen. IPM ESSEN is…
ESSEN, Germany: The forthcoming IPM ESSEN show (January 28-31, 2020) will be more international than ever hosting no fewer than …
Author: Ron van der Ploeg ESSEN, Germany: With preparations underway for the world’s premier show for ornamental horticulture, IPM ESSEN…
BERLIN, Germany: Syngenta’s new line of Impatiens walleriana, sold under the Imara brand, has been chosen as the most outstanding…
ELLERHOOP, Germany: The German city of Ellerhoop will host the 12th edition of Baumschultechnik from August 29-30, 2019. Ellerhoop is…
LOHNE, Germany: PÖPPELMANN blue® is the initiative with which the Pöppelmann Group commits itself to a closed material cycle. The…
ESSEN, Germany: Meet the flower industry’s unsung heroes at IPM ESSEN’s Discovery Centre that will gather fashion designers, floral arrangers,…
The fragrant Rosa ‘Anuschka’, from Uetersen-based Rosen Tantau, was chosen as the most beautiful new breed at this year’s rose…
BRUSSELS, Belgium: Stimulating and reflecting good practices in floriculture, the FSI Basket of standards is evolving and including additional environmental…
STUTTGART, Germany: Dianthus ‘Pink Kisses’, the iconic potted carnation from Selecta Klemm, will embark on a road trip across German…
STUTTGART, Germany: German plant breeder and propagator Selecta one today announced it has acquired La Villetta s.r.l., including the company’s…
Disruptive technologies change everything, as once the steam train, the car or, in today’s world, the smartphone. They are, however,…
The German city of Ellerhoop will host the 12th edition of Baumschultechnik from August 29-30, 2019. Location, location, location! There…
To serve high import demand around Valentine’s Day, Lufthansa Cargo has transported 900 tonnes of the long-stemmed flowers on the…
At this week’s Fruit Logistica show in Berlin, Bayer will announce new collaboration agreements with some companies active in the…
At January’s IPM ESSEN show in Germany, Dutch-based breeder’s representative Plantipp won two awards in the Neuheiten Schaufenster Novelty Competition.…
ESSEN, Germany: The Show Your Colours awards are one of the most coveted annual awards that are presented at the…
Busy aisles, full booths and an exciting array of new flowers and plants were the rule of the day for…
LOHNE, Germany: New from Pöppelmann TEKU®: The specialist for commercial horticulture products will present its extended range of innovative, fully…
At the beginning of November 2018, Benary opened its new production site in Chile in the presence of the main…
Germany’s Federal Association of Horticulture, ZVG announced in September that Jürgen Mertz has been re-elected chairman of the association for…
Above all, the young, urban (and mostly also affluent) purchasers want healthy, sustainable and regional products. This new customer generation…
STUTTGART, Germany: Convenience is in vogue and, according to figures published by the Agricultural Market Information Service, plant sales increase…
STUTTGART, Germany: At the International Trade Center in Boskoop-Hazerswoude at stand number 227, Selecta one presents its pot carnation highlights…
In cooperation with the market research institute GreenSurvey GmbH, Selecta One tested its Pink Kisses® sales display by means of…
On the occasion of IPM ESSEN 2018, hortivation started in Fair Hall 13. In the POS experience world for the…
Pots made out of plastic are not just an important part of modern plant production but can also be a…
ISSELBURG-ANHOLT, Germany: In November 2017 the breeding company Brandkamp presented its new assortment for the chrysanthemum season 2018. In addition…
Early this year. Uwe Bedenbecker and Marc Schax were named CEOs of Veiling Rhein-Maas, succeeding Ruud Knorr. Bedenbecker will be…
During the weeks of Advent, homes worldwide are full of Christmas decorations. Do these decorations influence the use of flowers…
Basically there are two ways to get societies out of poverty, both rooted in 19th century Germany. One goes back…
“We create indoor nature by adding natural elements to office buildings. Planters. Fixed and mobile green walls. Green landscapes. Indoor…
ESSEN, Germany: Attention focused on sales concepts oriented to consumers and trends. From January 23 to 26, IPM ESSEN was…
MADRID, Spain: Spanish rose grower Aleia Roses presented Princess Benedikte of Denmark (a sister of Denmark’s Queen Margrethe) with a…
MISHMAR HASHIVA: Israel, IPM Essen was a big success for Danziger. The global breeder presented a larger collection, inviting the…
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany: The market place for fresh flowers and ornamental plants was a rich source of fresh ideas…
To coincide with the start of the 2018 bedding & balcony plant season, Selecta is instigating the second stage of…