Our Levington Advance Solutions programme delivers results. But don’t just take our word for it...
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ICL’s Steve Hughes with Karl O’Neill from Ornamental Grower of the Year Bransford Webbs.
“ Working with ICL our plant quality has noticeably improved.” Lee Melady, Boultons Nurseries using Levington Advance Solutions
Lee Melady and his team at Boultons wanted to differentiate their offering by using peat-free growing media. They turned to ICL’s Dean Sandford to help. Using a Levington Advance Sustain peat-free growing mix, Lee was delighted with the results. “Working with ICL our plant quality has noticeably improved, in particular at rooting out and in overall late season plant vigour. We now produce a range of shrubs, trees and hedging plants peat free and we are seeing real progress in overall quality. The product quality and ICL’s Levington Advance Solutions service has been first class.” ICL’s Dean Sandford with Lee Melady from Boultons
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ICL’s Levington Advance Solutions tailored programme allows you to Grow, Nurture and Protect your crops throughout the growing season in complete confidence.
Grow ICL’s Levington Advance growing media as well as peat reduced and peat free offering Levington Advance Sustain. Growers can choose a mix to suit their growing needs.
Nurture ICL’s comprehensive Osmocote precision nutrition range of controlled release fertilizers, including fourth generation products with longevities and release patterns to suit specific plant types.
Protect ICL offers a choice of conventional and biological plant protection products, including Prestop providing protection from a number of fungal diseases. Due to recent new label recommendations, Exemptor now offers the option of season long vine weevil control.
“ Since incorporating Prestop 95% of our bare root perennials have taken.” David Mills, Clockhouse Nursery, using Osmocote CRF, Prestop and Exemptor as part of their Levington Advance Solutions
Situated at Forty Hill, just inside the M25 near Enfield in North London, the Clockhouse nursery has a turnover of £3million. Founded in 1928, the nursery is run by the founder’s grandson David Mills. “While originally we self mixed, we’ve switched to Levington Advance Solutions mixes,” says David. “For precision nutrition we rely on Osmocote Hi.End or Osmocote Exact Standard. We use Osmocote Bloom in all our bedding production.” Clockhouse is now also incorporating Prestop bio-fungicide in to their Levington Advance Solutions bespoke mixes. “Since using Prestop 95% of our bare root perennials have taken.” “While the growing media quality and consistency is always good, so too is ICL’s service which is efficient and friendly.”
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“ With Levington Advance Solutions, the growing media, nutrition and protection is optimised.” Karl O’Neill, Bransford Webbs, using Osmocote CRF and Exemptor as part of their Levington Advance Solutions
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Bransford Webbs, Ornamental Grower of the Year
Growing a wide range of hardy nursery stock (primarily Hebes), totalling 1.5million plants annually, Bransford Webbs goes from strength to strength. Bransford’s Karl O’Neill works closely with ICL’s Steve Hughes. “ICL’s custom mix growing media programme - Levington Advance Solutions helps maximise crop potential.” For nutrition, Bransford Webbs use Osmocote. “Osmocote makes life much easier for us.” says Karl. The nursery also uses Exemptor. “We see Exemptor as an essential tool for vine weevil and sciarid control while it also helps control aphid and whitefly,” “With Levington Advance Solutions, the growing media, nutrition and protection is optimised. It is great to have these things taken care of leaving us to concentrate our efforts in other areas.”
ICL’s Steve Hughes with Karl O’Neill from Bransford Webbs
“ Osmocote consistently gives us the results we are looking for.” Rodney Shearer, Alba Trees, using Osmocote CRF as part of their Levington Advance Solution
Rodney is Managing Director and one of the founding directors at Alba. “As production grew and became increasingly sophisticated we started to look around for a more consistent, quality growing media,” he says. “Having conducted a series of in-house trials we were particularly impressed by the overall high performance and consistency of Levington Advance growing media mixes, and switched to ICL.” For the nutrition programme Rodney has put his trust in Osmocote controlled release fertilizer, pre mixed in to the growing media. “All our growing mixes contain Osmocote Exact Standard (12-14 months),” he says. “This consistently gives us the results we are looking for.”
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Join us on stand B31 to help us celebrate and find out more about this iconic horticultural brand.
Levington has been the ‘go to’ brand of growing media for the past 50 years. Following continuous R&D and investment, this iconic growing media range remains synonymous with quality and consistency.
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1969
Fenmere Professional Gro Bags launched.
1966
1976
Levington Compost, C4 (Acid loving plants), tree planting and mulching compost, Bulb forcing compost.
Levington Universol Compost launched available by the lorry load.
Levington name registered.
1978
Levington Blocking compost launched.
Named after Levington Research Station where it was developed.
1993
1987
Retail peat free launched.
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Moving floor lorries introduced.
1997
Levington Horticulture becomes Scotts.
Introduction of growing media available in Bulk Bags.
Fisons becomes Levington Horticulture.
Professional Peat-Free Pot & Bedding Compost launched Manufactured from natural British forestry wastes.
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Expansion of custom mixes.
After 5 years of research, Levington Professional rebranded.
1992
Levington Compost Seedling and Levington Compost Potting developed.
1971
Major investment at Hatfield - launch of Fine grades, Medium grades and Medium Coarse Structure. Each mix defined by three factors, peat structure, level of nutrition and acidity.
1994
June 1966, launch of Levington in to the professional market. Ready to use supplied in heat sealed bags.
Introduction of ProBales.
Scotts Professional taken over by ICL and becomes Everris.
2012
Iconic growing media brand turns 50 Nurture
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Launch of Levington Sustain Peat Free.
Launch of Levington Advance Solutions Grow, Nurture, Protect.
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Launch of Levington Advance growing media
Everris becomes ICL
State-of-the-art Nutberry manufacturing facilities opened.
2015
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ICL’s Technical Matters LIVE in association with Four Oaks
ICL Seminars at Four Oaks Andrew Wilson will be discussing the importance of your growing media programme highlighting relevant grower case studies demonstrating how they have utilised the new Levington Advance Solutions programme to maximise their plant quality. From choosing the correct substrates and latest precision nutrition products to pest and disease management throughout the crop cycle (such as vine weevil control). Seminar Schedule Date
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6 September 7 September
14:00 12:00
30 mins 30 mins
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• Technical insight • New product developments
• Basis/NROSA
points available
Andrew Wilson ICL Technical Manager