Friday 08 August 2025
New on Circles: the Triptych! Three perspectives, one story. In three consecutive parts, we explore a current theme in floriculture. Always with a practical approach, room for multiple voices, and a clear translation into what it means for you as a green professional.
Wednesday 28 May 2025
The power of the sun
Thursday 22 May 2025
Grutsch Gartenbau in Germany shows that growing flowers can go hand in hand with sustainability and biodiversity. The nursery is an inspiring example of how flower production can have a minimal ecological footprint while supporting nature.
Tuesday 20 May 2025
For florists who value quality and responsibility, cold-greenhouse roses are an excellent choice. Grown without artificial lighting or excessive heating, these roses follow the natural rhythm of the seasons, resulting in strong plants, a low carbon footprint, and blooms full of character.
Tuesday 06 May 2025
A small discovery with a big impact. That’s the story of Little Spider in a nutshell. What began as a lucky find by plant grower Koos Bruinen has — thanks in part to his children Fleur and Luuk — grown into a promising, sustainable solution for pest control in floriculture.
Wednesday 23 April 2025
Lisianthus cultivation is known as one of the most energy-intensive crops within the ornamental horticulture sector. However… did you know that significant progress is being made? Increasingly, growers such as Montana Lisianthus are taking substantial steps toward a more sustainable future. Not only by applying innovative techniques, but also by drawing intelligent inspiration from nature.
Tuesday 22 April 2025
For a long time, we lived in the so-called Anthropocene, an era where nature served human life.
Tuesday 22 April 2025
For years, the Marginpar Group has been supporting communities around their flower farms. It’s where most of their employees, and their families, live. From the group’s core values, Marginpar believes that people are the backbone of the organisation, and the backbone of the community.
Tuesday 22 April 2025
With this video we are highlighting the 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 by Berg RoseS.
Tuesday 18 March 2025
It's everywhere: ‘sustainability’. A hot topic that excites some and overwhelms others. It’s broad, complex, yet undeniably important. There is a clear need for more knowledge about sustainability. What can we do to address this? First and foremost, it’s essential to share more information, engage in discussions, and provide clear examples that both florists and consumers can use. Fortunately, this is happening more and more. Additionally, it’s important to break down the complex concept of sustainability into manageable pieces. By fitting these puzzle pieces together, we can eventually form the full picture.
Monday 17 March 2025
Clarity for small-scale growers and clear sustainability requirements for all growers. With the launch of a certification scheme for small-scale growers from the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI) and with clear sustainability requirements for certification, the final step has now been taken towards 100% FSI-compliance for all growers. Earlier, leading growers and buyers together with Royal FloraHolland (RFH) agreed on 100% sustainability certification with an established roadmap. Meanwhile, about three quarters of the sales traded through the RFH platform are certified.
Monday 09 December 2024
In Boskoop lies a pearl of innovation and sustainability: Vlasveld Groentechnieken. This progressive nursery, specialising in skimmia flowers, cut hydrangea, eucalyptus and Christmas greens, proves that sustainable business is not only necessary, but can also be successful. With their almost entirely organic approach, they set a great example for the ornamental plant cultivation sector.
Thursday 14 November 2024
Preparations for Advent and Christmas are in full swing and that means plenty of greenery at Andromeda.
Monday 04 November 2024
The development of the small-scale grower scheme has made significant progress over the past summer. During the summer, a revised scheme, proposed by a working group consisting of FSI, GLOBALG.A.P., MPS, and Royal FloraHolland, was presented to growers. Thanks to the input from this group, adjust...
Monday 28 October 2024
The final phase has begun for the development of the scheme for responsibly produced coir. The first coir companies will test the scheme. This is likely to be completed by early 2025.
Tuesday 22 October 2024
The African codling moth, or False Codling Moth (FCM), is nothing new. If you ask Google, you will already find posts from 2016 on the first page of your results. So why is there now this fuss around this seemingly harmless little moth again? And who or what is this codling moth now?
Wednesday 16 October 2024
From January, we started testing crop protection product residues on our products, which we do in collaboration with the Groen Agro Control laboratory.
Tuesday 15 October 2024
On 19 March, the Flower Council of Holland hosted a webinar on the results of an ongoing survey on consumer perceptions around sustainability in the European flower and plant sector.
Tuesday 15 October 2024
At a time when sustainability is playing an increasingly important role, Chrysal, as the market leader in flower nutrition, is ready to set the bar high. The company is committed to contributing to a more beautiful and sustainable world by working towards a climate-neutral flower industry with their program Chrysal Cares.
Thursday 10 October 2024
Euro Plant Tray eG (EPT) has recently finalized agreements with two key service providers to enhance its operations