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Trade days Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th March. The Festival will be open to the public at Meadow Croft Garden Centre from 11th to 19th March. This year we have nearly 400 varieties from 33 different series and from 9 different breeders. All batches are fully labelled. The festival is the biggest independent plant trial…
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View the speaker presentations from the 2023 BPOA Technical Conference as outlined below. Session 1 – Boyd Douglas-Davies, Richard Hopkins, Jack Ward Session 2 – Chris Need, Dr Neal Wright, Dr Mark Else, Michael Smith Session 3 – Kate Cooney, Chris Jones, Co-Anne Kranenburg, Kathryn Smethurst 9:30 – 11:15Morning Session Chaired by Derek Jarman9:35-10:00Symbiosis Boyd…
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Online meeting Thursday 9th February at 9.30am. At a recent Autumn crops meeting we discussed the problems of growing cyclamen in 2022. It was thought the extremely high temperatures may have increased the amount of losses, usually sudden wilting caused by fusarium or erwinia. Most people mentioned the losses varied between pot sizes, varieties and…
BPOA 2023 conference Wednesday 1st February
The BPOA 2023 conference will be held at the NFU conference centre, Stoneleigh Wednesday 1st February 2023 Technical conference ticket prices: Early bird in-person/virtual (offer ends 06.01.23) – £50+VAT In-person/virtual – £60+VAT (In-person ticket sales close 25.01.23) Dinner tickets for Tuesday 31st January 2023 at the Woodland Grange, Leamington Spa – £40+VAT (ticket sales close…
Brian Crosby 1935-2023
We are sad to advise members of the death of Brian Crosby, in January. Brian was always a keen supporter of the BPOA through its many incarnations beginning with the foundation of the Bedding Plant Growers Association in 1979. He was the chairman in 1983 and vice chairman over several years and was instrumental in…
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Taking place Tuesday January 24th 2023 , 7-9pm at NFU Skelmersdale. A chance to meet and discuss the latest news. Please book your free ticket using Eventbrite to provide us with an estimate of numbers in attendance. Volmary the Past Present and Future A presentation by Nigel Johnson your local Volmary representative. Volmary GmbH is…
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Will it affect you? It might if you: supply packaged goods to the UK market under your own brand package goods for another UK organisation (this includes putting plants in pots) use ‘transit packaging’ to protect goods during transport so they can be sold to UK consumers ( delivering plants in trays or boxes) import products in…