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| Ornamentals News from Horticulture Week brings you the latest news affecting nurseries and ornamental plant production, including hardy nursery stock, protected crops, cut flowers and bulbs. |
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| Latest Ornamentals News |
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| Uncertainty over crop-protection renewals worries professionals but some say more time will help with alternatives. |
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| Dorset nursery group Golden Acres has launched a specific trade website to enable its commercial customers to quickly choose plants for delivery around the south. |
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| Verve name to appear on all plants as retailer begins a three-year plan to consolidate suppliers. |
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| Retailers could potentially benefit from a boost in sales of bedding plants after celebrity gardener Alan Titchmarsh called on consumers to ditch mildew-hit busy Lizzies for alternatives. |
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| Environment Agency's first civil sanction for pollution offence accepted by supplier after fuel leak. |
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| Research results show that LEDs are an effective replacement for tungsten bulbs for growers. |
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| Massive increases to the price of posting mail in the UK will harm small business and hasten the demise of the Royal Mail, the Forum of Private Business has warned. |
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| The number of visitors to Horti Fair grew this year and exhibitors and visitors responded well to the new course taken by the event, the organisers have said. |
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From the Nursery - what needs doing this week |
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| Ornamentals Production In Depth |
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| These cheery yellow flowers look good in a border, in pots or in grass, says Miranda Kimberley. |
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| This disease kills seedlings by drawing on the nutrients of a host's dead cells, causing plants to collapse. |
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| With drought conditions an ever-growing risk, what steps are nurseries taking to secure their water supplies? Hannah Jordan reports. |
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| New Plants |
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| Primula Belarina 'Valentine' received a special prize for its use as a house, bedding, balcony or perennial plant. |
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| Lathyrus odoratus 'Royal White', from the Japan Flower Trade Council, won best cut flowers. |
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| Nandina domestica 'Seika', from Plantipp and breeder Magnolia Gardens, topped the woody plants category. |
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