With the rain keeping garden centre customers away, how are their nursery suppliers faring? Can this season's sales be rescued? Graham Clarke reports.
Herbaceous perennial plants company Blooms of Bressingham has launched a website with a view to making it easier for consumers to find retail outlets selling its plants and for traders to find licensees and growers.
Roundstone Nurseries growing manager Lynne Seabrook has emphasised the importance of growth regulation as a tool to meet bedding plant uniformity challenges set by customer B&Q.
Fertiliser specialist Solufeed has launched two iron chelate formulations to add to its trace element range.
Bransford Webbs has started using its new 2,300sq m despatch facility, which incorporates loading bays and office facilities.
Thompson & Morgan (T&M) has rejected Switzerland as an alternative to Guernsey to import plants into the UK, young plants managing director Paul Hansord has said.
Growers tell Horticulture Week that plant stocked in B&Q is same as one previously supplied by dropped firm.
Four leading business operators accompanied consultant Neville Stein on a fact-finding mission to an Irish trolley fair in Kilkenny last month.
Schoneveld Breeding is using a trailer driven by Cumbrian grower Colour Gro to promote its range of Primula obconica 'Touch Me', which is available in 10 colours that darken as the flower matures.
Irish nurseryman Patrick FitzGerald has introduced a new line of primroses and sedges to northwest America.
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