The horticultural industry is continually searching for novelties that could provide it with new marketing opportunities.
The huge increase in the popularity of Phalaenopsis orchids is one of the most striking horticultural phenomena of recent years. Young orchid plants are now routinely raised in one country and then shipped to another for flowering and marketing.
The hardy nursery stock (HNS) sector is the largest user of peat in UK horticulture. Around 450,000cu m of growing medium, of which about 80 per cent is peat, is used annually for HNS production in the UK.
The raspberry is a very popular soft fruit for which there is increasing, year-round demand.
During late summer-autumn 2010, outbreaks of mites caused damage to outdoor spinach crops in southern England.
Plants of Hydrangea macrophylla flowered very poorly in many parts of the UK this summer even though this species usually initiates flowers in the preceding autumn and the flowers then over-winter as dormant buds.
The bumblebee colonies that are sold commercially consist mainly of female workers and a queen.
Good weed control continues to be important for hardy ornamentals growers to ensure that quality is maintained and the required retail specifications are achieved.
Although there is a widespread perception that organically grown crops are healthier than conventionally grown ones, there is little experimental evidence to support this view. However, there is evidence that conventionally grown fresh broccoli is an important source of biologically active compounds...
Whitefly is becoming increasingly difficult to control, on kale and Brussels sprout in particular. It is not clear why this is the case, although outbreaks appear to be more severe in hot, dry years (2003, 2006, 2010).
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