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June 24, 2021 Growing and selling orchids through the pandemic via Brexit and into an uncertain future - with Double H Nurseries' MD Andy Burton
Burton is candid about recent, current and future challenges including cost pressures hitting the grower 'from all angles' import and export constraints, the move to peat-free and labour issues affecting the Love Orchids grower.
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22 min
June 21, 2021 How horticultural growers can get the best out of adjuvants for their crops
ICL's Sam Rivers and Syngenta's Glenn Kirby talk about using adjuvants to mark ICL and Syngenta's launch of Elasto G5.
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20 min
June 16, 2021 Wimbledon tennis strawberry grower Marion Regan on what you do with 33 tonnes of strawberries when coronavirus cancelled the tennis and how British pickers fared in 2020
The Hugh Lowe Farms owner also discusses current labour challenges and how she is embracing new technologies such as LED growing, solar energy and the future of horticultural R&D.
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23 min
June 08, 2021 Horticultural lighting - Signify on lighting for strawberries
Horticultural plant specialists at leading LED technologists Signify - Erik Stappers and Peer Hermans - speak about how to optimise horticultural lighting for production of strawberries, latest developments and predictions for the future.
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16 min
May 28, 2021 View from the plantarea: Andy Bunker from Alton Garden Centre on plant supply issues, peat sales, plant trends,
Bunker gives us the lowdown on plant supply issues, how imports have helped out the trade, reserves for 2022, plant price Inflation, how the weather and foreign holidays could decided whether the season extends, changes in restaurant offer and the vexed question of peat and whether customers are asking for more peat-free. He finishes by giving us his view on what plant sales trends he expects for 2022 and his 'desert island' plant.
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25 min
May 26, 2021 Kernock Park Plants' Bruce Harnett on meeting the challenges of trading through the pandemic, post-Brexit and moving towards peat-free growing
Speaking to editor Matthew Appleby as part of Hortweek's 180th anniversary celebrations, Harnett details the unique challenges of the last year including difficulties in getting exporting restarted during the coronavirus crisis and post-Brexit and meeting huge domestic demand in 2021.

Harnett talks about how Kernock is negotiating peat reduction, the cancellation of trade shows in the UK and overseas, and the success of new plants such as Verbena Margaret's Memory.
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28 min
May 19, 2021 Lawn Association founder David Hedges Gower speaks on Monty Don row and artificial turf
Hedges Gower also explains why, after getting embroiled in a "no mow" row with Monty Don, why he believes Don was wrong and they will never be friends.
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22 min
May 14, 2021 Growing plants through war, storms, recessions, pestilence and pandemic - how Johnsons of Whixley has survived and thrived 100 years
Developing a jig to bend hoops, and early use of polytunnels and containerisation, to the rise and fall of council contracts and now servicing the amenity sector, surviving storms and devastating plant diseases, Richardson reflects on the successes and challenges of the past and into the future.

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22 min
May 07, 2021 How to grow the best peonies - renowned plantswoman Claire Austin gives her grower tips
Austin discusses her new book, tells us what plants she is breeding and her view on the future for growers and plant breeders like herself.
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19 min
April 30, 2021 Glendoick Gardens' Ken Cox on beginner gardeners, plant-hunting, growing and Brexit
Ken Cox's family firm, Glendoick Nursery and Garden Centre in Perthshire has been supplying plants and gardening advice to gardeners since 1953. It is renowned around the world as a breeder of rhododendrons and aside from writing award-winning gardening books, the latest of which - Gardening Made Simple - which aims to take the mystery out of growing for some of the three million new lockdown gardeners
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26 min

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Welcome to the HortWeek Podcast where we bring you news and views on the most important topics of the day for UK horticulture professionals. For more visit https://www.hortweek.co.uk/podcasts.

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