Colombian, Ecuadorian Flowers Face More Inspections in 2009 The U.S. announced it is heightening inspection of certain flowers from Colombia and removing more Ecuadorian varieties from a program that allows for faster port clearance.
Starting Jan.1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will increase the rate of inspections for callas (Zantedeschia), roses and bouquets with roses from Colombia. The action does not remove them from the Cut Flower Release Program, which allows certain low-risk countries to export low-risk flowers to the U.S. under a reduced-sampling protocol.
You could look at the bleak holiday travel forecasts and see just another symptom of a sick economy that's drained consumers of the cash and confidence needed to plan anything more than a trip to Wal-Mart.
Taking a page from SAF's outreach to funeral directors at the national level, the Pennsylvania Floral Industry Association (PFIA) took out a full-page color ad in the October edition of the Pennsylvania Funeral Directors Association's newsletter, The Reporter.
Even the best gardener needs to hand over the landscape plan to Mother Nature — a philosophy Ball Horticulture embraced in 2001 when it began restoring 27 acres outside its headquarters in West Chicago, Ill.
It's that time of year again — time to get up at the crack of dawn to stand in line for Black Friday discounts, time to be jangled by "Jingle Bells" in every drugstore and time to promote your holiday items like a tireless, tinseled elf.
The program for the 25th Anniversary Pest Management Conference, Feb. 19-21 in San Jose, Calif., includes more than 25 new sessions focused on the top issues in plant health today.
