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December 22, 2022
This year’s trial, produced under natural season growing conditions, featured more than 175 commercial and pre-release poinsettia varieties from leading breeders.
While some standards in begonias and petunias performed well, surprises included an Alstroemeria, and a new marigold series.
In his latest column, Dr. Allan Armitage says companies who are successful always have excited leaders, whose passion leads to innovation.
The site offers a wide range of foliage and flowering plants, with new plants being added every day.
Growers still need to plan ahead and be flexible as the market begins a slow path toward stabilization for sourcing plastics goods.
University of Florida researchers have found that adding pepper banker plants near roses helped establish higher predatory mite populations that eventually target chilli thrips.
Deer and weed presented some challenges, but the growing team came away inspired with ideas for its new cut flower program.
Interspecific Begonia plants require very low maintenance, while flowering from beginning to the end of the season.
Check out some of the top performers from this Top 100 grower’s trial garden in Alabama.
From emerging niche crops to the state of growing media, here’s what you may have missed in Greenhouse Grower’s November 2022 issue.
Two American Floral Endowment-funded research projects are investigating new ways to detect and reduce plant stress from abiotic pressures and diseases before they happen.
As peat becomes harder to obtain and the price rises, alternative growing media components are part of the solution to growers’ challenges.
Rose growers may soon have access to a new resource to help them differentiate between symptoms of rose rosette disease and herbicides.