From a historical perspective, agriculture and horticulture are prime examples of industries that had always worked in collaboration with nature…
Italy
In an absolute first, the organisers of the Italian trade show Myplant & Garden will launch their satellite show in…
The Ornamental Nursery District of Pistoia (Distretto Vivaistico Ornamentale di Pistoia) has re-elected president Francesco Ferrini for a second three-year…
The build-up to Italy’s leading horticultural trade exhibition is good, looking at the forward bookings. Exhibitor bookings are looking healthy…
Sergio Patrucco, the award-winning rose breeder whose rose varieties pleased many, has died. He was 72. Patrucco died of a…
The practice of moving plants from one area and releasing them in another, known as plant hunting, can be a…
Organisers of the 8th edition of Myplant&Garden—held between 21 and 23 February 2024—tell us it was a success. It was…
In association with Italy’s Home for Agricultural Knowledge CNPAPAL, Bari’s Order for Agronomists and Foresters (ODAF Bari), and Italy’s National…
Organisers of the 8th edition of Myplant&Garden—held between 21 and 23 February 2024—tell us this year’s edition of the Italian…
In association with Italy’s Home for Agricultural Knowledge CNPAPAL, Bari’s Order for Agronomists and Foresters (ODAF Bari), and Italy’s National…
Euroflora 2025 Designer Landscape Competition, a prestigious platform for innovation and creativity in landscape architecture and design, is now open…
The International Association of Horticultural Producers-AIPH is proud to announce that Euroflora is returning from 24 April to 4 May…
In the ornamental horticulture industry, there are few companies managed and run exclusively by women. For International Women’s Day this…
The 8th edition of Italy’s most influential commercial ornamental horticulture event, Myplant&Garden opens tomorrow in Milan and will last until…
From February 21 to 23, the eighth edition of Myplant&Garden, one of the most important international green trade fairs, will…
William Shakespeare’s popular adage ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet’ is used to stress that the…
The global plant breeders’ community welcomed the approval of EXN of EDV made by UPOV on October 27, 2023, after…
Sicily’s second-largest city Catania hosted the inaugural edition of the horticultural trade show Garden Days at the SiciliaFiera convention centre…
The editor of Hungary’s leading horticultural trade publication, Klara Biza, has won a 2023 Silver Carnation Award. Set against a…
Fiera di Parma announced today that the 2024 annual Flormart show will be held between 25 and 27 September at…
Plans to create a bustling Innovation Hub and ultra-modern congress venue, a campus and an engineering school on the grounds…
Plant Breeders’ Rights (PBR) are pivotal to horticultural businesses. They belong to the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). PBR are close…
The Chrysanthemum has long been a symbol of love and remembrance, with demand in Italy for spray, disbudded and pot…
Columnist, (horticultural) writer and plantsman Arturo Croci from Italy has been honoured with a garden rose named after him. He…
Providing a colourful backdrop for the Vatican/Taizé’s ‘Together’ event on Saturday and Sunday, 30 September-1 October, were thousands of Cyclamen,…
Professor Francesco Ferrini, Full Professor of Arboriculture and Urban Forestry at the University of Florence and President of the Nursery…
Founded in 2012, Italy’s national garden centre association, the Associazione Italiana Centri Giardinaggio (AICG), is the voice of the Italian…
Italy’s iconic Flormart show, happening in its hometown Padua between 20-22 September 2023, brings the world of commercial horticulture, urban…
In association with the Italian Trade Agency (ITA), Italy’s home for agricultural knowledge CNPAPAL, Bari’s Order for Agronomists and Foresters…
Trade show organiser Fiera di Parma today announced that the 2023 Flormart show will happen at PadovaHall in Padua between…
It is with a heavy heart that our correspondent in Italy, Arturo Croci and his friends Graziana Cerri and Enrico…
Dutch-based ErfGoed, an international leader in manufacturing and installing cultivation floors from Moerkapelle, Netherlands today announced a new dealership agreement…
Bookings are flying in for the 2023 International Garden Centre Association (IGCA) congress in Italy
Bookings are looking healthy for the 2023 IGCA congress happening in Baveno, Italy, on the west side of Lake Maggiore…
The American business magazine Forbes features Giorgio Tesi Group in its April Small Giants supplement, highlighting half a century of…
Strolling through a leafy park, woods, or a green countryside can ease brain fatigue, and the serenity of nature makes…
Italy’s most influential commercial ornamental horticulture event occurred in Milan between 22-24 February 2023, featuring 655 exhibitors on a show…
Italy’s iconic tulip festival, generally known as Messer Tulipano, is fast approaching with the promise of an unrivalled tulip extravaganza…
‘From Nature to Culture: breeding ornamentals for sustainability’ is the theme of the 27th International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)…
Lights, camera, action. Rising to international stardom is Flor-Export, a hundred-strong member cut flower and cut foliage cooperative from Viareggio.…
Industry veteran Charles Lansdorp provides his thoughts on this year’s Festival di Sanremo – not so much for the music…
‘From Nature to Culture; breeding ornamentals for sustainability’ is the theme of the 27th ISHS Eucarpia conference on ornamental horticulture,…
Nestled in the heel of Italy’s boot, Florsilva is a five-hectare wholesale ornamental plant nursery priding itself on more than…
Rita Baraldi is Research Director at Bologna’s Institute for BioEconomy (IBE) explains how trees and plants help mitigate climate change…
In the run-up to its seventh edition of Italy’s most important trade show for ornamental horticulture Myplant & Garden, the…
Italy’s national garden centre association, the Associazione Italiana Centri Giardinaggio (AICG) will host its 11th national conference at the forthcoming…
Leonardo Capitanio is the newly appointed President of the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH). At 33, he is the…
The Italian Trade Agency ITA (ICE), in collaboration with Italy’s National Association of Nursery Stock Exporters (ANVE), the Italian ambassador…
Maurizio Lapponi is a tree grower, author and business consultant from Mantova, Italy. In the December 2022 FloraCulture International, he…
Sofi Tandin has been crowned winner of Asproflor’s 2022 Miss Comuni Fioriti (Miss Communities in Bloom) in Bologna on Saturday…
The Chrysanthemum has long been a symbol of love and remembrance, with demand in Italy for spray, disbudded and pot…
Italy’s second-largest trade show and conference for the horticultural sector took place at Padua’s PadovaFiere convention centre from 21 to…
With All Souls’ Day – in Italian also known as La Festa dei Morti or shortened to simply i Morti…
MILAN, Italy: According to Italy’s leading horticultural media outlet Il Floricultore, the Italian Exhibition Group S.p.A. (IEG), listed on the…
PADUA, Italy: Having celebrated its 70th edition in grand style in 2019, one of Europe’s oldest horticultural trade exhibitions, Flormart,…
MONOPOLI, Italy: Cupressus and Quercus grower Luigi Pagliani from Perugia has been elected president of ANVE during the association’s Annual…
VATICAN CITY, Italy: A spectacular cake has been baked to mark the 37th anniversary of the floral friendship between Dutch…
Trevisan & Cuonzo, a leading European IP law firm and a pioneer in Plant Variety Protection (PVR), has defined the…
NFTs, blockchain and metaverse are the flavours of the moment. But what are they? Do they have an impact on…
VATICAN CITY: Providing a beautiful backdrop for the Vatican’s first canonization ceremony post-covid on Sunday 15 May 2022 will be…
GENOA, Italy: The National Association of Nursery Stock Exporters (ANVE)’s depiction of century-long landscape changes has scooped up top prizes…
The International Horticultural Show opened in April and ended on 8 May in the parks of Genoa, giving a high…
GENOA, Italy: The Euroflora show began this weekend. Prince Albert of Monaco was among those visiting the showgrounds at Genoa’s…
GENOA, Italy: After a break due to Covid-19 last year, the 12th Euroflora opened in Italy on 23 April 2022;…
According to its organisers, the sixth edition of Italy’s horticultural trade exhibition Myplant & Garden left its mark. One can’t…
CAMPOROSSO, Italy: Antonio Biancheri, a horticulture pioneer and entrepreneur, has died. He was 96. It is with a heavy heart…
GENOVA, Italy: After a break due to Covid-19 last year, Euroflora opens in Italy on 23 April 2022; the AIPH-approved…
Each year, Italy’s National Association of Nursery Stock Exporters (ANVE) invests money into graduate students and the research they are…
Milan, ITALY: Myplant, an important professional trade fair for the gardening industry in Italy, confirms the steady growth of Italian…
MILAN, Italy: Four weeks before opening, Italy’s horticultural trade show Myplant&Garden, in association with the Italian Ministry of Agriculture has…
STUTTGART, Germany: In line with the strategic extension of its product portfolio Selecta one, has establish a long-term cooperation with…
PADUA, Italy: Italy’s oldest horticultural trade show Flormart due to take place between 9-11 February 2022 has been postponed as…
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…
IJSSELSTEIN, Netherlands: A court in Venice has accepted the request of Dutch-based royalty management agency Plantipp by ordering Italian plant…
MILAN, Italy: Myplant & Garden, Italy’s leading premier horticultural trade show, could expand into a fourth hall, according to show…
On 25 October 2021, FloraCulture International (FCI), supported by the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH), Bloom’s Accademy and Flower…
DIDCOT, UK: Leonardo Capitanio, an ornamental plant grower in Monopoli, Italy and President of ANVE, Italy’s National Association of Nursery…
BOLOGNA, Italy: Netafim, the global leader of sustainable precision irrigation solutions and agricultural projects, announced today it will launch several…
FloraCulture International (FCI) magazine, supported by the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH), Bloom’s Accademy and Flower Academy Italy are…
VERTEMATE CON MINOPRIO, Italy: Industry veteran, founder of Italy’s horticultural magazine Flortecnica and journalist Arturo Croci and Giovanni Serra, professor…
TURIN, Italy: To ensure their flowers and plants stay top of mind, members of the Asproflor trade association go to…
TURIN, Italy: Asproflor, the trade association for ornamental horticulture in Italy’s northwestern Piedmont region welcomed more than thirty of its…
People thought I was crazy chuckles Charles Lansdorp remembering the reactions his industry peers gave to his Grandparents’ Day initiative.…
CITTA DEL VATICANO, Vatican City: A truck filled to the brim with fresh cut flowers from the Netherlands, Kenya and…
PISTOIA, Italy: The Ornamental Nursery District of Pistoia (Distretto Vivaistico Ornamentale di Pistoia) has today announced the appointment of Francesco…
PADUA, Italy: Having celebrated its 70th edition in grande stile in 2019, one of Europe’s oldest horticultural trade exhibitions, Flormart, is undergoing a…
MILAN, Italy: An upbeat mood, extremely mild winter weather, busy aisles and a grand opening. Hard not to be caught…
“We, the tree growers from Italy, believe that the United Nations Global Impact and the EU’s Green Deal uniquely position…
ALMERE, Netherlands: Italy has officially confirmed its participation in the AIPH-approved Floriade Expo 2022. In a letter to the Dutch…
PIANCASTAGNAIO, Italy: The Pistoia-based Giorgio Tesi Group nursery has offloaded its shares in tropical foliage plant grower Floramiata from Tuscany. …
GENOVA, Italy: The International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) has approved an application from Italy to host an International Horticultural…
Author: Aldo Colombo Italy was the first European nation to be struck by the coronavirus pandemic and has paid enormous…
Flormart survey finds that the importance of urban green space in public health and well-being will largely influence the future…
ROME, Italy: Assoflora, the trade association for ornamental horticulture in Lombardy, invited Italy’s flowering pot plant growers to a meeting…
MILAN, Italy: Event organiser V Group SRL has announced that its Myplant&Garden show will regrettably no longer take place in…
PISTOIA, Italy: Giorgio Tesi group from Pistoia, Italy ramps up the production of raised planters, fast hedges, and trellis to…
PADUA, Italy: On 29 April 29th, Flormart organised a webinar, Flormart OnLife Roadshow to talk about the shape of the…
PONTINIA, Italy: Italian wholesale plant nursery Jardiservice, located about 70 kilometres southeast of Rome, has warned its French customers that…
ROME, Italy: Since Italy’s coronavirus lockdown of much of Northern Italy, imposed by the government on Sunday afternoon March 8,…
ROME, Italy: On 3 March, in two Italian newspapers, ItaliaOggi and Linkiesta, Luigi de Maio, Italy’s Foreign Minister, announced government…
BOLOGNA, Italy: Garden centre founder and containerised nursery stock pioneer Edo Ansaloni died in Bologna, Italy on 31 January, aged…
MILAN, Italy: The first tree of what will be the MyPlant&Garden Forest was planted by a group comprised of MyPlant&Garden…
PADUA, Italy: Celebrating its 70th anniversary, Flormart returned to Padua on 26-28 September 2019. Show organiser Cristiana Bertero and her…
Horticultural consultant, UNEP consultant, one of the founders of the Colombian eco-label Florverde and contributing writer for FCI, Marta Pizano…
FCI takes an in-depth look at the past, present and future Italy’s plant propagation industry. Four major players make the…
On 14th December 2019 the new EU regulation 2016/2031 comes into force. The new regulation sets in place formal documentation…
Celebrating its 70th edition in grande stile this year, one of Europe’s oldest horticultural trade exhibitions Flormart is undergoing a…
There is a common saying among investment folk, “Trees don’t grow to the sky.” It serves as a kind of…
MILAN, Italy: Horticultural trade exhibition Myplant & Garden working with market research company Euromonitor International has published preliminary survey outcomes…
SCAFATI, Italy: Italy’s leading flower growers’ cooperative, Coop del Golfo is making huge strides in sustainability. Syngenta, one of the…
The 2o18 AIPH Expo Conference will discuss the many factors to consider when organising an International Horticultural Exhibition…How an Expo…
You are invited to the 70th AIPH Annual Congress which will take place in the beautiful city of Padova in…
The company Pazzaglia was founded in 1983 by Fabio Pazzaglia. It evolved from a small shop selling agricultural machines into…
Pistoia, in the heart of Tuscany and due west of Florence, has 90,000 inhabitants and the nursery stock industry is…
ANVE – Associazione Nazionale Vivaisti Esportatori (National Association of Nursery Stock Exporters) is an association that protects the interests of…
In collaboration with AIAPP- Associazione Italiana di Architettura del Paesaggio (the Italian Association of Landscape Architecture) – Euroflora, the biggest…
“You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but…
The response to the fourth edition of the International Green Expo (21-23 February 2018) has been great: 655 exhibitors, 17,300…
In Italy cooperatives have a long history. But cooperatives aren’t a thing of the past. This is proven by United…
MILAN, Italy: The fourth edition of Myplant&Garden – the most important international b2b trade fair for horticulture, landscape and garden…
The magic colours and sweet scents of flowers of Euroflora will soon be back in Genoa, this time against the…
Contrary to the Pescia’s Mercato dei Fiori della Toscana , where the wholesale market institution is viewed as a public…
In the ornamental horticulture industry there are few companies managed and run exclusively by women. On the occasion of International…
Trade shows face tough times to the point that organisers feel the need to share their views. Paolo Coin, CEO…
This time I would like to write about something really special; the Trattoria da Motorino, loosely translated in English as…