A tireless advocate for modernity, The St. Regis Venice has made a name for itself as a hub of contemporary art that celebrates the hotel's gorgeous heritage bones while embracing innovation in all its forms. In its latest creative partnership, the property collaborated with Berlin-based Studio Mary Lennox to design festive and sculptural interventions that will be on display across the hotel spaces through the holidays.

Famous for their surreal, dream-like installations, Studio Mary Lennox is one of the leading and most sought-after floral designers who regularly works with some of the

HBA announced that garden hydrangea Panflora has won the benchmark Quality Garden Hydrangea 2022. The test shows that Panflora meets the consumer expectations best. Of all the plants entered, Panflora achieved the highest scores for shelf life and ornamental value. Panflora was submitted by HBA partner Kötterheinrich.

During Trade Fair 2022 Michel Verbeek, sales manager for RFH and Evelyn Beckers, researcher for Post Harvest Knowledge Center RFH, handed over a prize to Jürgen Gerdvordermark, sales manager for Kötterheinrich and Jan ten Brinke, sales manager for HBA.

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Bell Nursery, an innovative wholesale nursery grower in the Central Garden & Pet portfolio, has been named Environmental Partner of the Year by The Home Depot. This award is presented to only one supplier a year that has gone above and beyond to assist the retailer in reducing the company’s environmental footprint while delivering top-quality products to the consumers who rely on The Home Depot to help them beautify and improve their homes.

Bell Nursery has proudly supplied The Home Depot with live goods for over twenty-five years, and all Bell products are certified and sustainably grown to

With consumer interest in gardening continuing to gain momentum across North America, Proven Winners has expanded its commitment to support home gardener success. It hosted an inaugural group of content creators to a Proven Winners Creators Roundtable held in the newly established Proven Winners headquarters in DeKalb, IL.

Nearly two dozen plant influencers attended the two-day event to learn more about the brand’s plans for new products and gardener solutions that will launch in 2023.

The event gave the creators a behind the scenes look at the Proven Winners brand and highlighted 2023

Inflation is hitting record highs and experts warn of a looming recession, which makes sales more difficult to predict. The Society of American Florists is helping retailers focus on profitability with the Forecasting Your Future course series. The second course in the series, Controlling Cost of Goods Sold, is available now and focuses on ways business owners can cut costs to achieve their profit goals.   

The courses are both presented by Manny and Clara Gonzales. The couple left their corporate careers in 1996 and bought Tiger Lily, a flower shop in Charleston, SC. Despite hitting $2

Everde Growers has announced several key changes in its sales management team. The restructure comes nearly four months after the strategic acquisition of La Verne Nursery.

Meredith McLeod was promoted to vice president of sales, independent and landscape, in which he will oversee national landscape and independent garden center customer sales channels. McLeod began his career with TreeTown USA in 2007, and over the past 15 years has been instrumental in the development of the sales team and many of the inventory and planning processes that Everde Growers uses today. He has worked in