FloralDaily Newsletter | Monday, August 21, 2023

Harun Uygun, Logimex:

NL: "Guaranteed response time of 5-10 minutes on export document is a big advantage for freight forwarder"

At the age of 19, Harun Uygun started working for a plant exporter in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands. He worked as an export manager for five years before…

Two new LED luminaires introduced

P.L. Light Systems has added two additional LED products to their ParFX™ product family: the ParFX™ Ultra and TriPlane™ Linear. "With a light output of…

US (OR): Farwest Show staying in Portland for 2024 and beyond

The Farwest Show will remain at the Oregon Convention Center for 2024 and into the foreseeable future, OAN leaders and staff have determined. “Over the past year, we felt the concerns th…

Rudbeckia ‘Sunbeckia’ summer sales

Rudbeckia and Echinacea are rated as Top-Sellers in Germany, Germany’s weekly newspaper for the horticulture industry, Taspo, reported. So, how is…

Singapore: Orchid export value declines as growers lament rising costs

The local orchid industry has lost two-thirds of its export value in the past decade, prompting growers to change their business models and invest in new…

AU: Tropical flower supply tightens as rain dampens the north's dry season

An unusually rainy dry season put Queensland growers two months behind schedule. Heidi and Robert Piccolo grow a range of bright blooms, with names such as…

Kiddy Cove Preschool visit to Sneh Florist:

India: "It inspires early year students and highlights the impact of field visits on learning"

Kiddy Cove Preschool is excited to announce a successful field trip to a Sneh florist as part of their ongoing commitment to providing enriching…

David Rene Rodriguez, Magtech:

"If you can apply hydroponics broadly in tomatoes, why wouldn’t you do it in cotton?"

Is it a pepper plant? A new type of cannabis? A strange tomato? Nope, it isn't. It's cotton that's growing in this Spanish greenhouse. Collaborating…

Bionema launches new range of biofertilizers

Bionema Group Ltd is launching four biofertilizers comprising living microbes that enhance plant nutrition by mobilizing or increasing nutrient availability in…

Peter Waweru Njenga appointed as managing director and CEO of KenGen

The Board of Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) has appointed Eng. Peter Waweru Njenga as Managing Director and CEO. Eng. Njenga assumes…

© Ruud Morijn | Dreamstime.com

US (OR): The ‘Olympics of dahlia-dom’ is coming to Portland

If variety is — as an 18th-century English poet supposedly first put it — the spice of life, then dahlias are doubtless the spice of the horticultural…

© Erik1977 | Dreamstime.com

UK: A blooming good weekend for all at RHS Rosemoor Garden Flower Show

The RHS Garden Rosemoor Flower Show returns from Friday, 18 to Sunday, 20 August, bringing a weekend of flower power to the garden in picturesque North…

© Ruud Morijn | Dreamstime.com

CAN: "75 percent of all dahlias grown in the garden or on dahlia farms are used for bouquets"

Native to Mexico and Guatemala, dahlias were declared the national flower of Mexico in 1963 and have become one of our most iconic garden flowers.…

UK: 'Eliza' returns to Covent Garden for research

On Wednesday, the Flower Market hosted the West End actress Patsy Ferran who plays Eliza Doolittle in the Old Vic production of Pygmalion. The old Covent…

© Mihail Degteariov | Dreamstime.com

US (PA): Penn State Extension held annual flower trials

The most colorful of all Penn State Extension programs is the annual flower trials field day. Held July 27 this year at the university’s Southeast…

© Colette6 | Dreamstime.com

UK: Florist Emily opens new studio and appears in top fashion magazine Vogue

A North Staffordshire florist who fell in love with floral design while doing the flowers for her own wedding has opened a studio and appeared in Vogue…

Startup with CO2 capture from air looks at horticulture first

Dutch-based ReCarbn is developing a machine that can capture CO2 from the atmosphere and process it into raw material. It involves so-called Direct Air…

© Yosyp Hudzyk | Dreamstime.com

US (PA): Bloomin’ for Butterflies container gardening workshop hosted a Season Garden Center

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Seasons Garden Center in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania (on the New Jersey border, just outside of Trenton), turned a…