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Poznan will become a meeting point for the international horticultural, floral, and landscape industries when Gardenia returns to the Poznan International Fair from October 6 to 8, 2026. The three-day event will celebrate 20 years of bringing businesses, professionals, organizations, and ideas together in Poland. Gardenia has grown from a fair with a strong retail and consumer focus into a professional industry platform.

Flowers leave farms every day; they travel through airports, enter new markets, and eventually reach florists and consumers thousands of kilometers away. The people behind those flowers are just as international, yet finding the time to really meet each other can be surprisingly difficult. Sahid Nahim wants to change that. On October 6, for the first time in its six-year history, the Bloom Together Event is leaving Miami and going international.

Most sustainability stories about flower farms end at the greenhouse door. Solar panels, rainwater tanks, carbon calculations- the story wraps up neatly at the edge of the growing beds. Tambuzi's doesn't. Walk far enough past the roses, past the packhouse, down the dirt roads that lead to the homes of the people who grow them, and the story keeps going. The light Tambuzi generates doesn't stay on the farm.

A rose can carry a reputation. Rose Juliet by Alexandra Farms is almost always seen and felt as romantic. When her name is mentioned alongside a wedding bouquet, most people immediately think of peach petals, garden-style flowers, and soothing colors. However, that is just one way to use her. If you take away the anticipated companions, things become more fascinating.

For Marryn Mathis, working with Dahlias starts in the field and ends in the hands of the person arranging them. As the farmer-florist behind The Farmhouse Flower Farm in Stanwood, Washington, she combines growing with designing and teaching. That practical connection between the garden and the vase is exactly what she brings to the Dahlia Design Summit.

For Jessie-Sierra Ross, flowers have never been separate from the table. They belong there alongside the food, the glassware, the conversation, and the people gathering around it. As a cookbook author, food and lifestyle writer, photographer, and television contributor, she has built much of her work around exactly that idea: creating a complete experience at home.

For almost two decades, Ellen Frost has built her work around locally grown flowers and, just as importantly, around the people who grow and design with them. The Baltimore-based florist, educator, writer, and community builder is the founder of Local Color Flowers and has become a familiar voice for growers and designers who want floral design to feel a little less complicated. That makes her a natural fit for the Dahlia Design Summit, the virtual event taking place from September 13-18, 2026.

It goes without saying that the right trade exhibition to take part in is generally an important commercial decision for those aiming to reach new markets. The Landscape Istanbul Fair 2026 (LIF 2026), which runs from October 7 to 10 at the Istanbul Fair Center and draws more than 5,000 professionals from over 50 countries and 110 exhibitors, is one such exhibition.

From growing up between greenhouses to enjoying the Dolce Vita in the Italian countryside, Elise Raateland always had flowers and plants close by. Today, she writes for Thursd from Italy, connecting growers, breeders, florists, and floral companies with readers worldwide. But her connection to the industry started long before she became a writer. Westland Way of Life For Elise, the floral industry was not something she consciously chose; horticulture was simply part of everyday life.

Historically recognized as the ‘Queen of Climbers,’ Clematis (Clematis spp.), a rambling woody vine that covered garden trellises, arbors, and walls, was always considered a landscape plant. For years, using it as a commercial cut flower was deemed non-viable due to a combination of reasons, including its thin, climbing stems, twining leaf petioles that tangled when harvested, and delicate petals that bruised easily.