MasterTag To Partner With Breeder Sakata Seeds At 2011 CA Spring Trials

March 11, 2011 MasterTag

MasterTag will partner with breeder Sakata Seeds at the 2011 California Spring Trials.

Fort Myers Floral Designs Exchanges Fresh Flowers For Reusable Vases In Green Initiative

March 11, 2011 Fort Myers Floral Designs

Fort Myers Floral Designs is giving away a fresh spring bouquet of flowers to anyone who brings in at least five clean, reusable flower vases now through April 30, 2011. The ‘green’ program is designed to reuse any suitable vases and help recycle those that have past their useful lives.

Fair Flowers Fair Plants Program Expanding

Fortunately the market is getting more and more positive again and FFP bears the fruits of this good development. Some new chains (Bellaflora and Florito), producers and wholesalers in various countries have joined recently as FFP participant. In the meantime on the production side FFP works together with 5 certification programmes, equal to the FFP standard. This means an increase of participating producers (and available assortment) at short notice.

Selecta Review Of IPM 2011

About 60.000 visitors used the opportunity to visit the most important exhibition worldwide in the green industry from January 25 to 28, 2011 in Essen. The attendance which dropped last year due to changed days away from the weekend recovered and the visitors mainly professional visitors accepted the shift to the week days Tuesday to Friday. Its been a great success for Selecta, too.

Colorful ‘Pincushion’ South African Leucospermum Is A Low-Water, High-Impact Plant

Travel to the southwest tip of South Africa and youll find a Mediterranean climate remarkably like ours: long, hot summers without rain, rainfall in the fall and winter months (which of course are the opposite of our fall and winter months). The native landscape in this area echoes our native chaparral, woodlands and forests, too.