Month: April 2017

Florida spans at least six USDA grow zones — and depending upon who you ask, there are many, many more microclimates within each. Even one yard can have many factors which can impact the ideal plant palette. It’s no wonder educating Florida’s consumers on which plants are ideal for their yard is such a monumental task. …

The Philadelphia event, underwritten by DVFlora, packed design, sales, technology and management education into an eight-hour program, along with a Supplier Showcase where floral industry vendors shared their newest products. (Smithers-Oasis sponsored the day's design program.) …

The next edition of IFTEX will include extra visitor promotion efforts on 2 new potential markets, i.e. China and the USA. These 2 countries have recently opened up and although for different reasons, both are developing quickly to new huge export chances for Kenyan flowers. It will be a new reality that Europe, where Kenya has traditionally been exporting to until now, may now experience competition from 2 countries with each the size of a continent. It may take a while before it will grow to its full size, but it is a matter of time. …