Winco Succulents take centre stage

A few years ago, Winco Holland who supply an amazing range of succulents took the decision to use a professional florist to work with their products whenever they have a trade stand. This year was no exception and, at the recent Royal FloraHolland trade fair in Aalsmeer, they turned to Lily Beelen to create a range of practical ideas to inspire florists. It certainly seems to have worked because the stand was always surrounded by florists taking photographs!

If florists use their…

FDF and G-fresh plans for IPM Essen 2019

The team from FDF arrived for discussions with G-Fresh to plan for the 3 demonstrations by the Floral Fundamentals family in Green City at IPM Essen, Germany. The theme will be Weddings and there will be different theatrical demonstrations each day! The international line up on stage is really exciting with Hans Zijlstra (The Netherlands), Frédéric Dupré (France), Ahti Lyra (Estonia), Sara-Lisa Ludvigsson (Sweden), Hanneke Frankema (The Netherlands) and Tomasz Max Kuczyński (Poland). The…

New Lisianthus

Van der Lugt Lisianthus launched their latest flower, Lisianthus ‘Megalo Shosha’ Champagne at the Aalsmeer trade fair. Hanneke Frankema was on hand to ‘christen’ the flowers in champagne! It looks like another winner in pink with cream outer petals - visitors loved it and it’s bound to be a winner! Available later this year.