The second World Ornamental Horticulture Summit, organized by the International Association of Horticultural Producers, will take place on 28th September 2022 in Almere, the Netherlands, as part of the 74th AIPH annual congress.

Following the success of the inaugural World Ornamental Horticulture Summit in 2019 in Beijing, the second Summit invites professionals from around the world to the AIPH-approved Expo 2022 Floriade Amsterdam Almere to discover the future of horticulture in the digital age.

With a theme of ‘Influencing change in a digital world’, the 2022 Summit will bring together

Visitors to the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum will have the opportunity to witness one of the most extraordinary phenomena in the plant world when a rare corpse flower opens its enormous, foul-smelling inflorescence sometime in the next few days.

The plant, also known as a titan arum, has been growing for the past decade in the UCSC Greenhouses and is now flowering for the first time. Its inflorescence, which will bear hundreds of small flowers, is already nearly five feet tall and growing several inches every day.

“We’re getting a lot of people coming to see it already, because it’s magnificent

The American Floral Endowment has awarded 20 students with scholarships totaling $54,400. In this 2022 scholarship cycle, which introduced a brand-new online application platform, 65 applications were received from over 40 colleges and universities.

The Endowment would like to give a special thank you to the 47 industry members who reviewed and scored the applications.
 

AFE is aware the floral industry faces significant and ongoing challenges to our labor force.

Now more than ever, these programs are imperative in helping support new professionals as they prepare to enter the industry

Star Roses and Plants will present its new 2023 plant varieties at Cultivate’22, July 16–19 in Columbus, Ohio. To get an inside look at these new varieties and chat with experts, visit the Star Roses and Plants booth #3217.

Top Cream
The large, old-fashioned blooms of this special rose are extremely fragrant with notes of earthy pear. Its abundant petals are creamy-white with an occasional light pink blush. It exhibits excellent disease resistance and is a wonderful rose for cut floral arrangements. 

Raspberry Cupcake
This special rose has a strong raspberry and lemon fragrance. Its

Marco Groot of Hilverda De Boer USA joined The Bloom Show to talk about how the company built an extensive network of logistical solutions to deliver farm fresh flowers quickly and directly to their clients since the founding of their company in 1909.

The Bloom Show is a floral industry Youtube Live show which helps the floral industry to innovate, connect and bloom through community, networking and bringing information to the industry from within the floral industry and bringing other industry insights as well. The Bloom Show believes that the more information the floral community has, the

Florint’s 4-yearly Europa Cup floristry championship will take place in Katowice, Poland, from Aug. 26 to 28. Many of the world’s most talented florists will be there to compete and do spectacular demonstrations.

National florist champions from about twenty countries will participate in the Europa Cup 2022, Florint’s long-standing European Floristry Championship. These master florists will face off against each other in a floral battle, where they complete some of the most challenging arrangement work of their lives.

Two days of world-class floral art

Two championship days with first-class