HORTICULTURE NEWS
Flowers to herald in the Spring
Colour your Life presents ‘Stunning shrubs’ with Forsythia and Kerria japonica ‘Pleniflora’ and ‘Spring flowers’ with Amelanchier lamarckii and Cornus kousa ‘MilkyWay’. This is part of the push to get retailers promoting and customers buying this spring. It’s all about boosting sales and growing markets and you can benefit! Our market intelligence proves time and again that flowers are what gardening consumers want as spring comes in again and in bothMarch and April this year, flowers are exactly what you get from Colour your Life. In April, the focus shifts to Amelanchier lamarckii and Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way’, as part of ‘Spring flowers’ collection. These plants offer structural benefits and guarantee colour year after year. Substantial, yet compact, they will achieve the desired effect in large or small spaces. Cornus kousa ‘MilkyWay’ flowers profusely and Amelanchier lamarckii, an RHS Award of Garden Merit plant, has the added benefit of interesting autumn foliage colour. For further information email
contact@colour-your-life.co.uk or visit
www.colour-your-life.co.uk
'Sunshine Charm' Kernock Park Plants have seen excellent results from their Diascia Breezee series. All varieties carry huge flowers, added to the fact that they bloom from spring right through the summer and will happily withstand the vagaries of the UK climate. For further information please telephone 01579 350561 or email
enquiries@kernock.co.uk
Vibrant colours
Since the release of their 2012 Plant catalogue, Ball Colegrave have extended their product range with 80 new introductions. These are featured within the Spring Additions Brochure. As the Diamond Jubilee and Olympic games approach, a few ideas are included in this brochure on how to use bedding plants to bring added colour this summer. For further information please telephone 01295 814705 or visit
www.ballcolegrave.co.uk
MorePeople newwebsite
MorePeople are delighted to report on a superb reaction to their new website which was re-vamped in late 2011. The recruitment and training business has completely redesigned their site to give it an up-to-date look and feel that reflects the dynamic nature of their business. The new website has all the information that you need to know about MorePeople and will be updated regularly with all the news and events that relate to this leading agency over the coming months. For further information visit
www.morepeople.co.uk
NewGrowStation
The AHT GrowStation represents a revolution for the UK grower sector. It has been introduced by Victor Lambert of Air Hydroponic Technology Ltd. Aimed at the professional grower it employs a unique design that improves quality, protection against pathogens whilst reducing water and energy costs. The GrowStation’s multi- layered structure ensures a balance of
irrigated water and air are fed to plants without interruption, no matter what the outside temperature – a revolutionary design combining thermodynamics, hydroponics and aeroponics in a single, cost-effective product. Crucially, this GrowStation enables growers to manipulate vegetative and generative growth, while also controlling root zone temperature and nutrient pH. For further information please telephone 01482 665978 or e-mail
vl@aht.gb.com
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