Cornus kousa ‘Akatsuki’ and Asclepias perennis putting on a lovely light show in the summer garden. The white flowers of the native asclepias are a bright color echo of the white variegation of the dogwood. Cornus kousa ‘Akatsuki’, Asclepias perennis The post Summer Combo appeared first on...

Ask most greenhouse growers how they built out their facility and the answer follows a familiar pattern: one company for construction, a different one for climate control, another for irrigation and water management, a specialist for lighting, and a software provider somewhere in the mix. The...

Don’t say goodbye to spring flowers like lilacs, clematis, and magnolias once they start to fade away as summer approaches. These 19 reliable plants will rebloom for a second (or even third or fourth) showing of blossoms in the same growing season. Learn more about flowers that will rebloom in...

From seahorses and birds to beetles and killer whales, journalist Elizabeth Preston finds a lot of common ground between human and animal parenting in “The Creatures’ Guide to Caring,” a sweeping survey of the evolution of caregiving and the dizzying array of survival strategies in the animal kingdom.

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The Cayman Islands bets on a genebank of coconut diversity. The Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT’s genebank bets on growth cabinets to save picky wild bean. IITA bets on stakeholders to build a better Bambara groundnut. And its genebank, presumably. The Australian Seed Bank Partnership bets on,...

Photograph depicting greenhouse space and implementation infrastructure before implementation of the progressive drought regime used in the present study. (Courtesy of Andrew Bierer)Kearneysville, WV— As drought and water uncertainty put increasing pressure on orchard systems, researchers at the...

Purdue College of Agriculture engineer Caitlin Proctor has received a major grant from the USDA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) to explore the management of bacteria and biofilms in hydroponic growing systems. Proctor will work with Purdue’s Assistant Professor of Agronomy...

Chris Plane has worked at Midwest Groundcovers for more than 12 years, more recently serving as Production Manager. The post Midwest Groundcovers Promotes Chris Plane to VP of Nursery Operations appeared first on Greenhouse Grower.

As datacentres dry and fry the planet and society rapidly turns unsustainable, focusing on the small things we can change might get us throughThanks to the Hobart gardening legend Hannah Moloney sharing a video about the green tomatoes in her greenhouse, I went outside in the glorious winter...

Italian lighting manufacturer C-LED, the horticultural lighting division of Cefla, used GreenTech Amsterdam 2026 to showcase its latest vertical farming lamp, a model the company says was developed specifically for multi-layer applications and has already been deployed at scale in a fully automated…

Alongside Thermal Compost Systems' heat-from-waste trial, another technology on show at HIC Venture Studio in Bleiswijk during the Hightech Horti Innovation Tour 2026 addressed pest control. Bram Tijmons, CEO & Co-Founder of PATS, a Delft-based startup spun out of TU Delft, presented the company's…

On the morning of the 9th, inside the "quarantine greenhouse" at the Useful Plant Propagation Center of Yongmun National Arboretum in Gyeonggi Province, three spaces were divided by transparent glass walls. In the "Phase 1 Room," seeds of five species of plants over 300 years old, brought from the…

The Hightech Horti Innovation Tour 2026 opened in Bleiswijk, at HIC Venture Studio, the greenhouse-based accelerator run by HortiScience Innovation Center (HIC). Jan Padberg of the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) and Maarten Hermus of InnovationQuarter opened the day's proceedings by…

Most of the lettuce grown in the United States comes from California or Arizona, where certain regions have been dubbed the nation's "salad bowl." But for the last 18 months, more than 12 tons of the green stuff consumed in south Louisiana — enough for tens of thousands of garden salads — has originated…

Many professionals choose cities like Mumbai to build careers in the entertainment industry, but very few decide to leave behind what they have already built. They do so not because they are incapable of succeeding, but in search of a greater sense of purpose. Maharashtra-based Amar worked as a script…

The USDA published a final rule in early May that requires all SNAP-authorized retailers to carry seven varieties of items across four staple food categories: protein, grains, dairy, and fruits and vegetables. The rule takes effect in fall 2026. For CEA growers, the implications may be worth watching…

After the morning's presentations at HIC Venture Studio, the Hightech Horticultural Innovation Tour 2026 group moved to the Delphy Improvement Center's research greenhouses, led by its manager, Eric Poot. The Improvement Center runs to roughly one hectare across 27 greenhouse compartments, the...

Imagine making a salad in the middle of the winter that uses locally grown, sustainable lettuce. Then imagine the time the lettuce takes from farm to family table was less than 48 hours. With Forest Valley Acres, now you can dine on a fresh, crispy salad with a base of living lettuce harvested on any…

At HIC Venture Studio in Bleiswijk, one of the technologies presented during the Hightech Horti Innovation Tour 2026 was a system that turns plant waste into a source of heat. Nathan van den Dool, Co-Founder of Thermal Compost Systems, discussed the company's container-sized unit, installed under a…