HortiTrends Weekly Comment and News Digest - April 8th
- 08 April 2013
As an on-line business trade fairs are our lifeblood and events like Meet 30 Nurseries @ Trolley Fairs on Tuesday, April 9th and last Saturdays GLDA Seminar give us the opportunity to meet with the professionals who are at the coalface of Horticulture. Whether its meeting with advertisers or sourcing news from attendees or visitors, its that face to face contact that is all important.
The nurseries exhibiting at tomorrows fair are in a conundrum of sorts. If its a good day they will be busy at the actual nurseries and will have itchy feet to get back to base. Also if the sun shines the attendance will be lower as Garden Centres and Landscapers will be wary of taking time of off to attend.
Its a gamble for all involved but in our opinion a worthwhile one. Plant buyers get the opportunity to benchmark existing suppliers against the competition and also further develop that relationship. The garden centres and landscape buyers are less needy when it comes to knowing what they want. The sector of plant buyers where more opportunity exists for the nurseries to make further inroads are the smaller DIY chain and shops. They are frequent visitors to this site and are looking and learning about, what the garden centres are doing. We wrote an article in last months 'Irish Hardware Magazine' outlining what they need to do to improve their plant offering. Our main advice was to leave the plant buying responsibility to a good partner nursery who will have all the right contacts within the sector. There is still work to be done to nurture this group into buying more Irish grown stock and getting them to attend the Trolley Fairs is an ongoing important part of the marketing for the event. The GCAI are also holding an a side event at the fair for garden centres attending which will be of interest to existing and potential new members.
We will have a full report on last weekends GLDA Seminar next week
News comes that Park-Promoting Charity GreenSpace Ceases Trading. This was an organisation that will be sorely missed for that sector as they were doing important work in raising awareness among the trade and the general public of the importance of parks. A victim of cutbacks and also the fact that no other trade organisations were either interested or had the time/resources to carry it on.
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Today's Articles:
- Coveney Announces Call for Research Proposals
- Preparing for the Next Generation of UK Shoppers
- Britain's Towns 'Need More Trees'
- Dundalk's Park Hotel & Golf Course for Sale with €1.75m Guide
- Park-Promoting Charity GreenSpace Ceases Trading
- Green Sod Ireland and CKI, NUI Galway
- British Bird Population Continues to Decline says RSPB - Philip Voice
- Climatologist's Journey from Dalkey to the Arctic - Via the US Navy
Top 10 Most Read Articles:
- Does Punxsutawney Phil Deserve to Die?
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- GCAI Garden Centre Survey & Meeting
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- DIY Staff 'are Best at Explaining Products'
- The Netherlands: Future Horti Fair Uncertain
- Orchard, Garden & Lifestyle Centre of the Year 2012/2013
- This Weeks Premium Jobs in Horticulture Ireland
- Tully Nurseries Plant Centre Trade Catalogue 2013
- Helleborus - John Lord
This Weeks News Articles:
- This Weeks Premium Jobs in Horticulture Ireland
- NEW Tenders for Horticulture in Ireland
- Meet 30 Nurseries @ Trolley Fairs on Tuesday, April 9th
- Maria Sibylla Merian Celebrated with Google Doodle for 366th Birthday
- ISNA Plant Fair – Wells House & Gardens
- Fresh Plaza Report on Vegetable Section of a SuperValu Store
- EPA Report Shows that Recycling and Recovery Rates are Improving
- An Taisce Report Highlights the Public Costs of Poor Planning
- Farm Business Data 2013
- Tulip Festival takes Place at Powerscourt
- GIY Get Ireland Growing Fund in Partnership with AIB's Add More Green Fund
- Tully Nurseries 'Bella Bloom' Looking Good
- Irish Companies 'Missing Out' on Millions in Funding and Expertise
- Coburn's Host NI Launch of Bayer's New Fungicide
- Gathering Garden Scoops Three Awards in Canada - Marketing
- Local BioBlitz Challenge 2013 – Sites Finalised!
- Launch of the World's First Practitioner's Guide to the Sustainable Sourcing of Agricultural Raw Materials
- Call for Commercial Rates to be Lower for Town Centre Developments
- Jens Holst Becomes Part of the FleuraMetz Group
- Butterflies in Danger after Disastrous 2012 - Philip Voice
- Biomass Processing Challenge Fund Re-Opens
- Grow Wild in National Gardening Week
- Ireland Top in EU at Putting Innovation to Work
- One in Five Shops Lying Empty as Retail Crisis Deepens
- New Book Offers Insights into Conflicts Over Wind Farms and Fracking
- Tim Briercliffe Leaves the HTA - Is there a Crisis Brewing? - Philip Voice
- GCAI Garden Centre Survey & Meeting
- John Deere Tractors Join Newmafruit Fleet
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Joseph ( Editor at HortiTrends)