Agapanthus praecox ‘ HPP4087 ’ ( AMOURETTE SUPERB WHITE ) has been grant the Green Retail Award for the Best Novelty of PLANTARIUM|GROEN - Direkt . Highland Potplants submitted the plant from Gravenzande . The award was presented Monday , June 12 , during GROEN - Direkt ’s Summer Days .
Agapanthus praecox ‘ HPP4087 ’ ( AMOURETTE SUPERB WHITE ) produces an teemingness of hopeful white flowers on many peak stems with many flowers in each inflorescence . The perpetually bloom plant keep producing novel stems . The KVBC panel was very impressed by the fantabulous display featuring small but lavishly bloom plants of garden - heart and soul quality .
Green Retail AwardsBefore the display of the accolade , fair director Linda Hoogendoorn - Veelenturf and fair managing director Marjolein Wieckardt announced the new umbrella name of the inspections : the Green Retail Awards . With these Green Retail Awards , PLANTARIUM|GROEN - Direkt bid enterpriser a platform to place their founding in the glare . The Green Retail Awards comprise three category : Best Novelty , Best Market Innovation , and Visitors ’ Favourite .
“ Novelties and origination are very important for our sector , which is why we , as the organizers of this fair , aim to further such developments . These Green Retail Awards enable us to evolve the inspection into an internationally agnise competition in which we want the Best Market Innovation to be the spearhead , ” said Marjolein .
Linda Hoogendoorn - Veelenturf add together that the Best Market Innovation is a worthful award in which garden center buyers and retailers are specially concerned . “ The jury members are works buyers from within and outside the Netherlands who evaluate the products ’ marketability . Important criteria besides intersection quality and availability are , e.g. , sustainability , innovativeness , and the degree to which the merchandise meets a current market or target - radical requirement . We also work together with a garden centre or retail organization that forms part of the panel and offers the winners a political program in their shop class on which to give their ware to consumers . This twelvemonth this is the Intratuin range of mountains of garden middle . It will be a different international retail organization each class . ”
Twelve plants inspectedFifteen plant had been submitted for this first summertime edition of the review for the PLANTARIUM|GROEN - Direkt Best Novelty , of which twelve were finally evaluated . In accession to the gold medal for Best Novelty , the panel also awarded three ash grey and three bronze medals . The plants take for the Best Novelty laurels are inspect by a panel of expert inspection committees of the Koninklijke Vereniging voor Boskoopse Culturen ( KVBC ; Royal Boskoop Horticultural Society ) .
