At the 2023 California Spring Trials, Leslie Bayas at Dümmen Orange highlights the company’s new series of fuchsia that are day length neutral and named after French dance techniques.
Today we visited PlantHaven, Pacific Plug and Liner (PP&L), Southern Living, and Dummen Orange, and were treated to the future, both in plant material and in programs being developed.
As investors and consumers seek sustainable corporate practices and products, this breeder incorporates new social responsibility strategies.
Dümmen Orange is switching its focus to breeding and propagation in the Anthurium segment. Production of finished and pre-finished products will be taken over by HouwenPlant.
In the last of a three-part series, breeders tout their favorite offerings that reflect Pantone’s most recent Color of the Year.
Dümmen Orange is making new genetics available for out-licensing to young plant growers and breeders and is looking to set up new partnerships with industry players.
The operation grew 88 varieties, totaling more than 12,000 poinsettias. Customers and employees selected their top five favorite varieties in four categories — novelty, red, white, and pink.
Sticculents are succulents such as Echeveria, Haworthia, and Crassula that, thanks to a patented connector, can now be used in cut flower creations.
Post-pandemic, consumers are still looking for houseplants, but have less discretionary income to spend on plants.
This year’s trial, produced under natural season growing conditions, featured more than 175 commercial and pre-release poinsettia varieties from leading breeders.
Plant breeders PanAmerican Seed and Dümmen Orange, along with the Society of American Florists, have each made the holiday season a bit brighter.
With the acquisition of Quick Plug, Profile Products expands its horticulture product line and enhances the company’s foothold in the controlled environment agriculture space.
Mast Young Plants hosted its largest number of visitors since 2019, including several nontraditional first-time gardening and plant enthusiasts.