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Jonathan Moseley’s British Flower Bus 2018
During 2018 Jonathan Moseley led a nationwide campaign to promote commercial British Flower growing and highlight the 12 month availability of British Grown Flowers. Jonathan has been working with FlorismartUK to launch a ground breaking three-year project with a major industry and retail campaign to establish wide scale seasonal growing of cut flowers in Britain […]
Air Movement Day on 9th October 2018
On the 9th of October an Air Movement Day will be held at W D Smith, Smith and Son, Grange Nurseries, SS11 7QU. The day will start with presentations and interactive discussion covering the following questions: Why do you want air movement in a glasshouse? What techniques are available and how do they compare? What […]
Week 36 (2018) Update
The Lysimachia is in full flower this week (although they have been producing flowers over the past 2 weeks). The Jumbo is still far superior to the Mambo which is still showing leaf necrosis and chlorosis. They are also apparently very prone to spider mite? The second planting of Asclepias “Apollo Orange” is now in […]
Week 34 & 35 (2018) Update
Some of the Scabious that were cut back in week 33 have started to shoot again but some are very slow to recover. It will be a few more weeks before we know if the “hard” cut to the ground or the “soft” cut leaving about 50cms of foliage is the most successful. As stated […]
Downy Mildew Sensitivity testing – update.
We have today received the report of the sensitivity testing that FERA have been undertaking for us and it makes very interesting reading. Firstly just a quick reminder that these tests were undertaken on isolates from 5 nurseries (2 in Norfolk and 1 each in Lincolnshire, Northern Ireland and Cornwall) using 9 different fungicides. The […]
