ICL Professional Horticulture
Grow / Nurture / Protect in partnership with Four Oaks ICL has been working hard with professional growers to make sure they have the right growing media, nutrition and protection throughout the growing season. The Levington Advance Solutions growing media programme is helping hundreds of growers, find out how it can help you.
Visit us on our stand at Four Oaks Or join one of our launch events and seminars throughout the two days (see inside for more details)
Professional Horticulture
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Product Guide
ICL’s Steve Hughes with Karl O’Neill from Ornamental Grower of the Year Bransford Webbs.
The comprehensive new growing media package from ICL…
A comprehensive growing media solutions package, Levington Advance Solutions optimises the design and production of quality, customised mixes to suit customers’ individual requirements. For simplicity and efficiency, the Levington Advance Solutions package is neatly divided into Grow, Nurture and Protect and features new and recent advances in all three areas.
Grow
Nurture
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.
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.
ICL’s comprehensive Osmocote precision nutrition range of controlled release fertilizers, including 4th generation products with longevities and release patterns to suit specific plant types.
ICL Professional Horticulture - Grow / Nurture / Protect Seminars - with UK Technical Manager Andrew Wilson.
Basis registered seminars to keep you up to date with the latest innovations and working practices Within our Grow, Nurture and Protect seminars Andrew Wilson will be analysing the day-to-day nursery management challenges growers are facing. With the loss of chemical active ingredients, increasing use of biologicals and advanced technical fertilizers that closely match plant demands, there is plenty for growers to think about. Andrew will be joined by guest speakers to help define these issues and solutions from the ICL stable of products while encouraging an active Q&A on subjects including IPM and good disease management. Date
Time
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Venue
6 September 7 September
14:00 12:00
30 mins 30 mins
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Andrew Wilson MBPR Technical Manager Ferts and Plant Protection Products
Levington - Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence Come and join us on the ICL stand and help celebrate 50 years of growing media excellence with Levington. While demonstrating the latest technologies, our experienced team of Technical Area Sales Managers will be on hand to provide the latest advice on growing requirements throughout the season. Refreshments will be provided as well as a commemorative gift for all customers.
Our Levington Advance Solutions programme delivers results. But don’t just take our word for it... Our customers reap the benefits of consistent growing media, technologically advanced fertilizers and easy to incorporate protection products supported by sound technical advice from our experienced team of Technical Area Sales Managers.
“ Osmocote consistently gives us the results we are looking for.” Rodney Shearer, Alba Trees, using Osmocote CRF as part of their Levington Advance Solution
“ Working with ICL our plant quality has noticeably improved.” Lee Melady, Boultons Nurseries using Levington Advance Solutions
ICL’s Levington Advance Solutions tailored growing media programme allows you to Grow, Nurture and Protect your crops throughout the growing season in complete confidence.
ICL’s Levington Advance Solutions tailored growing media programme allows you to grow, nurture and protect your crops throughout the growing season in complete confidence.
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.”
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.
For the nutrition programme Rodney has put his trust in Osmocote controlled release fertilizer, pre mixed in to the growing media.
We now produce a range of shrubs, trees and hedging plants peat free and we are seeing real progress in overall quality.
“All our growing mixes contain Osmocote Exact Standard (12-14 months),” he says. “This consistently gives us the results we are looking for.”
ICL’s Ian Todd (right) with Chris Allan from Alba Trees
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.
The product quality and ICL’s Levington Advance Solutions service has been first class.”
ICL’s Dean Sandford with Lee Melady from Boultons
“ 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
“ 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
ICL’s Levington Advance Solutions tailored growing media programme allows you to Grow, Nurture and Protect your crops throughout the growing season.
ICL’s Levington Advance Solutions tailored growing media programme allows you to Grow, Nurture and Protect your crops throughout the growing season.
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.
Growing a wide range of hardy nursery stock (primarily Hebes), totalling 1.5million plants annually, the Bransford Webbs goes from strength to strength.
“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.” ICL’s Stuart Gammage with David Mills Clockhouse is now also from Clockhouse Nursery incorporating Prestop bio-fungicide in to their Levington Advance Solutions bespoke mixes. “Since using Prestop 95% of our bare root perennials have taken.”
Bransford’s Karl O’Neill works closely with ICL’s Steve Hughes. “ICL’s custom mix ICL’s Steve Hughes with Karl O’Neill growing media programme - from Bransford Webbs 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 controls aphid and whitefly,”
“While the growing media quality and consistency is always good, so too is ICL’s service which is efficient and friendly.”
“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 on other areas.”
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