04-09-2010 Rose exports shrink on high freight charges, rising input cost 09-03-2010   Jai Prakash Rao, a rose grower in Bangalore, is slowly looking at the domestic market for selling his roses than relying on exports. The reason is that higher freight charges, rising cost of production and emergence of other low cost producers like Ethiopia and Kenya are taking the edge out of the rose export market. read more Flower farming in Kenya slowly wilting 08-30-2010   The high cost of doing business and lack of sector-specific incentives is costing Kenya foreign direct investment in the flower industry. read more Plantarium 2010 08-25-2010   On Plantarium 300 participants from many different countries present a collection of nursery stock for the consumer market. Containers and plantpots for nursery stock are on display, but so are plants grow directly in the soil. Suppliers are well represented with their state-of-the-art technology. Plantarium is a major for all the channels involved in the nursery stock trade ranging. read more Plantarium novelties 2010 08-25-2010   Look at all the Plantarium 2010 novelties in this article.. read more Kenya's Cut-Flower Earnings May Be Unchanged This Year 08-25-2010   Kenya, Europe’s largest source of cut flowers, may earn about 36 billion shillings ($443 million) from sales of the crop this year, in line with 2009, according to the Kenya Flower Council, which represents growers. read more O.C. nursery exiting local business 08-25-2010   Hines Nurseries LLC, which has been part of Orange County's agricultural scene for 53 years, will stop growing plants and flowers in Irvine at the end of the year and will lay off about half its 160 workers here. read more Shares of 1-800-Flowers continue to slump, 08-24-2010   Shares of 1-800-Flowers.com continued to decline Monday, days after the online flower company said revenue fell in its fiscal fourth quarter as shoppers avoided buying flowers and other discretionary items in the weak economy. read more Increase in exports and variety of flowers grown in India 08-24-2010   Bharatbook added a new report on "Floriculture Market in India 2010" report covering one of the emerging markets in India with strong growth prospects. This report is a part of Consumer Goods Industry Series. Floriculture Market in India 2010 read more Kenya flower growers step up branding 08-17-2010   Local flower producers have stepped up the branding of their produce, raising the stakes in their long running bid to wrestle control of the multi-million export industry from the financially muscled Dutch auctions. read more Chinese Valentine's Day sends flower prices up 20% 08-13-2010   Chinese Valentine's Day approaches, the wholesale price of roses has climbed to NT$250-500 (US$7.84-US$15.68) per 20-flower bunch, up to 20 percent higher than at non-holiday times, an official of the Taipei Flowers read more Lenders shy away from cut flower exporters 08-13-2010   Cut flower exporters face fresh hurdles as risk-averse financial institutions move to reduce lending to the industry whose attractiveness has been dented by the turbulence in the European market. read more Belgian flower carpet comes to Prague in September 08-12-2010   A unique Belgian-made flower carpet "woven" of dozens of thousands of live flowers will decorate Prague's Old Town Square on September 3-5, the Belgian embassy told CTK yesterday. read more Kenyan flower sector seeks new EU deal 08-11-2010   Horticulture stakeholders are looking to negotiate a trade protocol with the European Union to graduate from the current Lome Convention. read more “Quality – Essential To Maintain Your Market Position” 08-10-2010   “Only with high quality one can get the repeating purchase by customers” says Ms. Geeske Punt, head of ‘Knowledge Centre for Product Quality’ (former ‘Test center’) in FloraHolland. read more More than 260 varieties of flower on display at Lalbagh 08-10-2010   Everyday close to 70,000 people have been thronging the Lalbagh Botanical Garden to witness the flower show. The Independence Day flower show in Lalbagh Botanical Garden which was opened for public viewing from August 6 and will continue till August 15. read more Master Gardener: Flower preserving is a time-honored art 08-09-2010   We lovingly plant and nurture our beautiful flower gardens in spring and summer. We cherish our handpicked bouquets and do not want to let them go. Well, with a little effort we can keep many of them almost forever and continue to enjoy them in fun new ways. read more Flower show in Bangalore attracts thousands 08-09-2010   Admirers of colourful and fragrant flowers,be they the locals or the tourists thronged in large numbers at the annual flower show organized in Banglore. Organised by the Horticulture Department of Karnataka in the Glass House of Lal Bagh (see the film) read more FloraHolland Won First Price in the ‘Floating Parade’ 08-06-2010   Not less than 330,000 (!) visitors gathered along the banks of the waterways in the Westland region, and watched the 13th floating parade that took place last weekend, from 30 July to 1 August. read more What a $250,000 flower budget will buy you 08-06-2010   Although Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky have decided not to speak publicly about their highly anticipated nuptials this weekend, the media has been buzzing about what they are calling “The Wedding of the Decade”. read more In Kenya's Rift Valley, a global business is blooming. 08-06-2010   Jack Kneppers, one of two Dutch brothers who run Kenya's Maridadi Flowers, leans over and whispers that even after the Icelandic ash fiasco, his farm still made a profit. He then winks and bursts into laughter. read more 8The Best, Brightest and Newest of Holland’s Flower Bulb Companies Categori 08-04-2010   Landscape Flower Bulbs, www.LandscapeFlowerBulbs.com may be the newest bulb wholesaler on the scene, but they are brimming with experience and ready to take the industry by storm with a unique, Internet-based approach. read more Tulip breeders develop bigger, tougher lilies 08-03-2010   Dutch bulb breeders have shifted their intense focus from spring-blooming tulips to lilies, a genus whose bloom times span early spring to late summer. The first fruits of their efforts are available in goodly supply from specialty retailers, whose fall catalogs are showing up now in mailboxes and online. read more Berlin resident dedicated to flower business in New Britain 08-02-2010   Scott Hamel grew them in his home on Mill Street while he was a student at New Britain High School. read more Michael Gaffney seems to blossom wherever he lands 07-29-2010   Michael Gaffney's varied career, culminating in a thriving, coast-to-coast chain of floral design schools, has been guided largely by whims -- not to mention a remarkable talent for landing solidly on his feet no matter where his impulses have propelled him. read more Horticulture faces acute shortage of quality planting material Debasis Moha 04-16-2010   Despite the rising need for horticultural crops in India, the sector is facing an acute shortage of quality planting material which makes it difficult for further growth of horticultural industry. read more 1-800-FLOWERS.COM(R) Wins 'Mobile App of the Year' Award 04-15-2010   1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc., (Nasdaq: FLWS) the world's leading florist and gift shop and a pioneer in game-changing e-commerce innovation, has once again raised the technology bar. read more Brazil's Tropical Flower Growers Hopeful to Get European Clients Back 04-15-2010   Twenty tropical flower growers from the state of Alagoas want to start exporting again in 2010. 'The Valkyries', as they have come to be known, are members of the Cooperative of Tropical Ornamental Plants, Flowers and Foliage Growers and Exporters (Comflora, in the Portuguese acronym read more TFA growers on FloraHolland auction clock 04-06-2010   The integration of the virtual Tele Flower Auction (TFA) in FloraHolland is nearing completion. The first flowers from TFA growers will be auctioned at FloraHolland's Aalsmeer, Naaldwijk, and Rijnsburg export locations on Tuesday 6 April 2010. read more Organic flower industry growing, focusing on unusual varieties 02-15-2010   Some florists who want to avoid flowers grown with artificial fertilizers and pesticides use other labels like Veriflora that set limits on chemicals. Eco-friendly florists also build relationships with local growers, whose farms they can visit and who share details about their growing practices. read more Anthurium exports help West Bengal flower industry to blossom 02-02-2010   Jalpaiguri, :India's flower industry has received a fillip thanks to the efforts of a farm in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district. Text read more Olson’s Greenhouse Ushers in the New Year with Sustainably Grown Plants 01-20-2010   Olson’s Greenhouse is putting quality, people and care for the environment on the front burner for 2010. And now, the most visible symbol of Olson’s commitment to sustainability; they have been independently certified under the Veriflora® Certified Sustainably Grown eco-label. read more Innovation Award to Overdevest Nurseries. 01-15-2010   Proven Winners ColorChoice presented its 2009 Innovation Award to Overdevest Nurseries. The annual award recognizes forward thinking and excellence in the marketing of Proven Winners ColorChoice branded shrubs. read more Kenya flower production dips 30% by September 10-25-2009   Kenya's flower production recorded a 30 percent drop in the first nine months of this year because of a severe drought and low demand, an industry official said Thursday. read more Ethiopia gets over $130 million from flower exports 08-05-2009   Ethiopia has obtained $138 million from the export of cut flowers during the past 11 months, the Ethiopian Flower and Horticultural Products Association (EFHPA) said here on Tuesday. read more Search a text.