This year’s BPOA - HDC Poinsettia group meeting will coincide with the GroSouth Exhibition to be held at Roundstone Nurseries on 9 November 2011.
The meeting will be staged in the boardroom at the nursery but there will be opportunities to view plant material from the HDC funded projects examining new poinsettia varieties (HDC project PO 007) and hellebores grown under protection (HDC project PO 006).
Guest speakers will provide an update on the ‘Stars for Europe – Stars Unite’ poinsettia promotional campaign and the future of poinsettia breeding.
We look forward to welcoming you to the meeting.
The agenda for the day is as follows
09:30 View poinsettia variety trial at Roundstone Nurseries
10:00 Coffee and event registration and introduction - Ian Mills, Poinsettia group chairman
10:05 HDC project PO 007 ‘New cultivars of poinsettia: evaluation at marketing and in shelf life’ - Harry Kitchener, consultant
10:15 ‘Stars for Europe – Stars Unite’ poinsettia promotional campaign - Susanne Lux, Stars for Europe
10:40 Poinsettia breeding programmes and new varieties - Perry Wismans, Dummen
11:00 HDC project PO 006 ‘Hellebores for production under protection’ - Harry Kitchener, consultant
11:15 Other poinsettia group issues for discussion and future planned visits - Harry Kitchener, consultant
11:30 Any other business and return to variety trials
If you would like to attend the BPOA - HDC Poinsettia meeting please contact Kirsty Nichols at Kirsty.nichols@hdc.ahdb.org.uk or on 02476 478677. Bookings must be made by 3 November 2011.
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