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The International FLORALIES of Ghent (Belgium) are open to the public from the 17th to the 25th of April of 2010. It’s a spectacular event, with the biggest ephemeral interior garden of the world. Invited by the Royal Society for Agriculture and Botany of Ghent, a representative of the Girona Association of Nurseries has participated, on the day previous to the official opening of the Floralies, as a member of the jury in the section of nursery stock.

The European Nurserystock Association launches the revised and completed European minimum quality standards for nurserystock.

The European Nursery Stock Association (ENA) had their ENA Committee Meeting in connection with the IPM-show in Essen 29th January 2010. ENA presented their reviewed and completed ENA Quality Standards. For the past ten years ENA kept on leading the charge to have uniform quality standards accepted and implemented across the European nurserystock sector. These standards are a synthesis of work, carried out in 1990, early 1996 and 2009. These ENA Quality Standards are now the accepted minimum plant standards used between ENA-member states. They are obviously, constantly evolving and therefore likely to be reviewed and completed.
 
ENA is convinced that one of the surest ways to develop the nursery market in Europe is to make trading easier within the EU. ENA decided to take on the task of establishing simple, universally acknowledged European standards. The idea behind all this is to define a common language for a standard, fair, honest, average quality. It will be up to individual businesses to apply their own more rigorous standards, using these as a basis, should they wish to do so.

To get more visibility, ENA has created a new logo and website (www.enaplants.eu). Within this website it is possible to download easily the ENA Quality Standards!

In the interview held in Girona during the trade show SPV'09 by Joaquin Beas (PlantFlor) Willy de Nolf and Jaume Riera, President and Vice-President of European Nurserystock Association (ENA), highlight: "in a crisis period smaller size and high quality plants may be successful”.

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PESTS OF PALM TREES AND NEW THREATS FOR THE GARDEN PLANTS
Technical seminar - CASTELLÓ D'EMPÚRIES, 2 March of 2010

Garden plants are susceptible of being affected by several pathogens. Recently we have seen the appearance of new pests and disease that affect severely ornamental trees and shrubs, like Red Palm Weevil and Fire Blight of species in the Rosacea family. On the other hand, there are pests in other countries that until now we have not detected in our country named “quarantine pests”. In this seminar we will outline the main threats we must prevent, the symptoms that show, the measures of prevention and eradication which it is necessary to take and the disposable methods for their control.

The program is in Catalan only, but an approximate automatic translation may be produced by Google Translator.

QUARANTINE PATHOGENS OF FRUIT TREES
Technical seminar - GIRONA, 5 March of 2010

This seminar will be a technical update on the scientific and technical knowledge, regulatory and legal actions of the official administration for control of major diseases of fruit trees (plum pox virus, fire blight and Xanthomonas) that may affect in Catalonia and several areas of Spain. The seminar ends with a roundtable where control strategies and future prospects of a handle integrated into the current context will be discussed and evaluated. Mr. José María Cobos, Deputy Managing Director of Plant Health of the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs and representative of Spain in the EU Standing Committee on Plant Health will participate in this seminar.

The program is in Catalan only, but an approximate automatic translation may be produced by Google Translator.

The article highlights that Vivers Tortadès presented in the fair an assortment of species and varieties selected for the northern countries, deserving special attention the Picea omorika ‘Nana’. The Spanish participation, greater than ever in the fair of this year, mainly shows the gamma of Mediterranean plants.

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Visitors to the fair may directly contact the Girona Association of Nurseries and get information on plant production and nurseries in the region of Girona. The "Guide of Girona nurseries ", the directory of the Catalan Federation of Nurseries and the catalogs of VIVERS TORTADÈS, STAR·PLANT, MONERPLANT, VIVERS PLANAS, VIVERS DE CARDEDEU, SANTA & COLE, CULTIUS MAS CUNÍ, VIVERS CASA PARAIRE, JUNIPER INMOCAT, VIVERS BOSCH and PLANTERS RIERA are available to professional visitors.

Vivers de Cardedeu and Jardineria i Vivers Sant Iscle have exhibited previously in this trade show, while is the first time for Vivers Massaneda and Vivers Bioriza. Vivers Bioriza participates in the competition Innovert®  in the category of commercial innovation in plants, after having won also a prize to the innovation during the show SPV held in September 2009 in Girona.

The Catalan zone, with a total of ten companies, is in the Hall LES TERRASSES stands T 611 - U 612, where is located the joint participation of Spanish companies coordinated by FEPEX with the collaboration of the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs and ICEX.

Since the 26th until the 29th January 2010 they show to European buyers the plants produced in their nurseries:
VIVERS TORTADÈS, of Sant Hilari Sacalm, is specialized in the production of conifers, with a vast range of container grown varieties.
VIVERS MASSANEDA, of Santa Coloma de Farners, is a big nursery producing container grown shrubs and conifers.
CENTRE DE JARDINERIA SILS, of Sils, grows mainly trees in container and big specimens.

Their stands, together with other three Catalan companies, are in the Hall 12, where is located the joint participation of Spanish companies coordinated by FEPEX with the collaboration of the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs and ICEX.

PHOTO

The last issue of the professional magazine FLORMARKET has published a report of six pages in images of the fair SPV celebrated in Girona in September 2009.

We thank Editorial Verdimedia for the permission to publish these pages.

Leaves, words, a tree or is it a cloud?

From the website of Girona Association of Nurseries we wish you the best for the New Year 2010.

The Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs has resolved TO AUTHORIZE the plant protection products formulated with PHOSMET-50 WP to fight the PALM TREES pests Rhynchophorus ferrugineus and Paysandisia archon.

It was also a demand of the nursery sector that has finally succeeded thanks to the Catalan Department of Agriculture.

In Girona nurseries frequent periodical treatments, wetting the top of the palm trees extremely well, are made, and a record of the treatments is available for inspection. The Plant Health Service of the Department of Agriculture makes a strict control of palm tree nurseries, inspecting the palm trees one by one at least every three months. If inspections are passed, the nurseries are allowed to issue Plant Passports.

The Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs has resolved TO AUTHORIZE the plant protection products formulated with CHLORPYRIPHOS -48 EC to fight the PALM TREES pests Rhynchophorus ferrugineus and Paysandisia archon.

It was an old demand of the nursery sector that finally has succeeded thanks to the Catalan Department of Agriculture.

The CHLORPYRIPHOS -48 EC is useful to fight against Paysandisia archon, furthermore when authorized products on palm tree until now do not have enough effectiveness. In Girona nurseries frequent periodical treatments, wetting the top of the palm trees very very well, are made, and a record of the made treatments is available for inspection. The Plant Health Service of the Department of Agriculture makes a strict control of palm tree nurseries, inspecting the palm trees one by one at least every three months, to give authorization to issue Plant Passports.