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Four Oaks Trade Show
Welcome to the 2020 Spirit of Four Oaks virtual show and exhibitor guide!
In the absence of a physical show this year, Horticulture Week is hosting the show to celebrate the best of ornamentals horticulture production.
Highlights
Exhibitor Guide: allows exhibitors to showcase their plants, services and products to visitors.
Plant of the Year: voted by you! Click on the link, review the shortlist and place your vote. (due to launch 11 August)
Latest
Spirit of Four Oaks to live on with virtual event for 2020
Four Oaks will live on in virtual form this year after the UK’s top commercial horticulture show was forced to cancel the September event due to the coronavirus crisis.
Latest Four Oaks news
Sixty plant introductions in the running for the Four Oaks Trade Show Awards
Some 60 new plants are in the running for the Four Oaks Trade Show awards, to be announced on 4 September at the trade show in Lower Withington, Cheshire.
Growers gear up for Four Oaks Trade Show
New features at Four Oaks Trade Show (4-5 September) include e a Florist Holland garvinea gerbera pyramid, big Plantline display and a new info hub to advise visitors on plant health, Brexit and other issues.
Lubera Edibles is bringing a new selection of young plants to Four Oaks
The companies of Robert Mayer and Lubera have joined forces to produce a selection of young plants, which will be displayed at Four Oaks trade show in Cheshire on 4-5 September.
US ornamentals 2021 trade show cancelled as mixed picture of post-coronavirus crisis virtual and physical events emerges
Some horticulture events worldwide in 2021 are cancelling, while others are postponing until next year or going online-only in autumn 2020.
Fargro happy with staycation pot sales and relieved plant protection sales are low - for the sake of hard-pressed coronavirus crisis-hit growers
Fargro managing director Richard Hopkins says pot sales are up as gardeners stay at home this summer, while plant protection sales are down as few problems hit growers, with some optimism being shown for autumn.
Events can go ahead from October - but too late for many in horticulture
Business events, conferences, exhibitions and events centres will be given the go ahead to reopen on 1 October adhering to social distancing.
Four Oaks Plant launches
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Gardener/Handyman
Private (Estate) Solihull, West Midlands
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General Maintenance Assistant
Cameron Landscapes & Gardens London (Central), London (Greater)
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Gardener at large country house
Private Estate - North Staffordshire North Staffordshire
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Head Gardener
Morton Hall Gardens Morton Hall Gardens, near Inkberrow, Worcestershire
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Hard Landscaping Assistant
Cameron Landscapes & Gardens Notting Hill, London (Greater)
Forthcoming events
FPC FUTURE 2020
- Lincolnshire Showground/University of Lincoln’s Riseholme Campus
Four Oaks Trade Show 2020
- Situated 5 miles from Junction 18 of the M6 motorway, close to the Jodrell Bank radio telescope, only 10 miles from Manchester International Airport and 4 miles from Holmes Chapel Railway Station on the Crewe to Manchester line.
Plantarium 2020
- Boskoop, Netherlands.