Floral

Suzanne Di Staulo has been named Sales Manager at Spring Meadow Nursery, home to the Proven Winners ColorChoice shrubs brand. In her new position, Di Staulo will lead and direct the nursery’s sales team, which serves growers and garden centers across the United States and Canada. …

From 1 January 2013, the marketing and operational activities for the Fair Flowers Fair Plants label will be continued in collaboration with MPS. This was decided by the FFP and MPS organisations today. Together, they will also continue to work on the same aim for this important sustainability label for floriculture products. Working with growers, traders and florists, MPS and FFP are trying to make sustainably-grown floriculture products the largest range of products on the market. …

There are not that many blue flowers, but the colour blue is fairly prominent among summer flowers. Veronica is certainly among the bluest! …

The Tropical flower of the Dutch Anthurium cut flower grower Fa. P.J.J. Van Leeuwen en Zn  has been awarded first price winner of the VKC inspection in the House of Quality at the Horti fair. …

The finalists for the FloraHolland Glazen Tulp 2013 Award have been announced. In the catagory Cut flowers Sombrella is one of five finalists. With this extraordinary disbudded chrysanthemum Deliflor Chrysanten and grower Acradia hope for the prolongation of the Glazen Tulp Award, they both won last year with Anastasia Star Pink. …