All Flowers articles – Page 47
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Grass expert on home turf
The Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes will be officially launched at this year's Chelsea show
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ArticleGreat Pavilion gears up for show
There will be much of interest to commercial growers in the Great Pavilion at Chelsea this year.
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ArticleNew roses at Chelsea
Harkness will be introducing a number of new rose varieties at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.
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ArticleBees descend on Chelsea
With bees disappearing from Britain’s landscape in alarming numbers, they are conversely swarming towards the top of the agenda at Chelsea.
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Flower named in Seabrook's honour
The legendary Peter Seabrook is to embark on his latest Chelsea voyage this year, with the unveiling of a plant named in his honour.
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Somerset hosts allotment week
Somerset will be the venue for a week dedicated to allotments. The event has been organised to tie in with National Allotment Week and takes place at Sanders GardenWorld in Brent Knoll from August 13 to 19.
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ArticleKenyans hit back over 'air miles'
While ‘food mile’ mania continues to sweep Britain, Kenya’s exporting community is becoming more organised in its attempts to shift the focus back to ‘fair miles’.
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Greenisland Flowers takes floral honours
The Long Life Solutions Floral Business of the Year award went to Greenisland Flowers. Up against last year’s winner Flowerfete, Greenisland Flowers was formed in 2004 after Donnelly Horticulture’s successful trails, experimenting in growing stock as a cut flower, concluded that the season could be extended.
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ArticleFamily business gets Re:fresh retail award
The award for Independent Retailer of the Year, sponsored by Foods From Spain, went to family business Garsons. Garsons has two garden centre and farm shop locations, featuring local produce and the best speciality food, at Esher in Surrey and Titchfield in Hampshire, and has been led by five generations of the Thompson family.
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ArticleHolland the top wholesaler
JR Holland has won the Capespan sponsored Wholesalers of the Year award at Re:fresh. A first-time winner of this award, JR Holland had not previously entered, and felt that due to continued success and a particularly good last 12 months, the time was right to throw its hat into the ring.
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ArticleJR Holland named overall trader of the year
This year’s Re:fresh Overall Produce Trader of the Year, as sponsored by Tesco, is the JR Holland Group.
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ArticleCover your tracks
Unless you have spent the last few months living in a cave - which, incidentally, would be a very environmentally friendly mode of existence - then the notion of a carbon footprint will hardly be an alien concept. Laura Gould takes a look at what the UK produce industry is doing to reduce the size of its own tread - and also considers how our environmental decisions could impact on growers further afield.
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ArticleConference organisers address delegate needs to put bums on seats
A reasonable number of FPJ readers will be reading this either at the Re:fresh Conference or having been to the event. But the vast majority of you will read this issue having chosen not to attend. Just what do delegates want from a conference? Tommy Leighton tries to find out.
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ArticleBayer launches Chishill bio-diversity site
Bayer Cropscience officially launched its Chishill biodiversity site at a packed event last week.
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Exosect welcomes Defra grant
Environmentally sound pest control provider Exosect has been awarded a grant from Defra to facilitate a joint research project with the International Pesticide Application Research Centre (IPARC), Dow AgroSciences and Micron Sprayers into commercial development of a new spray technology.
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ArticleHTA targets women
The HTA is launching a new initiative aimed at getting more women involved in horticulture.
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Airfreight issue loses impetus
Kenya is one step closer to winning the battle to protect its huge European market, in the face of a campaign mounted by UK supermarkets to ban product over food mile concerns.
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Silicon approach for glasshouse growers
Greenhouse growers could boost yields by adding silicon to their nutrient applications, irrigation or potting mixes
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Iggy set to storm Chelsea
Iggy pop will be appearing at this year's Chelsea Flower Show - in the shape of an exhibit.