Rows and rows of rose cuttings fill a vast warehouse in Alem Gena, a small town about 30km from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. They are being grown into small plants ready to be sold on. Ethioplants is owned by Dutch flower grower Felix Steeghs who moved here in September.[ read more ]
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The salient features and unique advanced facilities at the Dubai Flower Centre (DFC) were showcased to an international audience at the International Horti Fair that was held from Oct. 31 - Nov. 03, 2006 at the RAI International Exhibition and Congress Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. [ read more ]
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Located in the heart of Kabul, Flower Street is different at Christmas from any other time of year, transformed into a festive place full of trees decked with multicolored tinsel garlands and lights. “After the Taliban, we started to make Christmas trees because lots of foreigners are around, and they are asking for them,” [ read more ]
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Whether you’re just getting into gardening, trying to streamline your gardening activities, or wanting to have a landscape and plants reflective of the times, being aware of the latest gardening trends can help.This past year Chris Beytes, the editor of a professional growers magazine, described several specific trends which reflect four main traits of new gardeners and their gardening. For starters, we are no longer gardening as in past generations, nor will kids today garden as we do. Related to this is the fact that many are actually decorating instead of gardening. [ read more ]
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Most people don’t eat flowers. But they are an important source of food security because of the income they bring to thousands of people — most of them women — in developing countries.And yet flowers have not, until recently, been held to the same ecological or health standards that pertain to edible agricultural products. US and European regulations on chemical residues for flowers, for example, are less stringent than for food. Moreover supermarkets, where cut flowers and bouquets prepared in the country of origin are increasingly being sold, have exacting cosmetic standards and cannot afford to sell flowers damaged by pests. All these factors raise the potential risk of exposure for workers. [ read more ]
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The worldwide floriculture industry demands a diverse range of cut flower and foliage products, with the unusual and the exotic always attracting the attention of this fashion-driven industry. On the world market, Australia’s export potential lies in its unique native flora, a rich resource of valuable new flower products waiting to be fully developed and marketed to the world. Domestic consumers are also increasingly seeking out native flowers.Many native flowers and foliages now being grown commercially were initially mostly bush-picked to first establish market acceptance. Today in NSW most are grown in beds or rows in commercial plantations along the coastal strip where there are suitable growing conditions and good transport links to major domestic and export markets. [ read more ]
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