11/04/2025
Over the last couple of years we have made great strides on our sustainability journey.
In 2023 we joined the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI 2025), which gave us a clear direction in setting our goals along with putting us in contact with other individuals and companies within the floriculture industry who also share these values.
We are continuing to reduce our carbon footprint by the installation of solar panels and many other initiatives to minimise electricity and farm inputs.
We are leading the industry in biodiversity and continue our policy of leaving 30% of our sites undisturbed, ensuring that a habitat and shelter for the local wildlife remains. These include hedgerows and wetlands. Our plants provide pollen for several species of bees, which they use to pollinate the ecosystem. Over 80% of our cultivated crops are grown without the use of any insecticides, with minimal use on the remainder.
Due to the Irish climate and high rainfall, it enables us to use no artificial irrigation for our plants, leaving us with the lowest water footprint in the industry of .04 litres used per stem of foliage.
We remain certified in GLOBAL GAP and the Bord Bia Quality Assurance scheme, both first achieved in 2015.
We have clear goals and targets that we are looking to achieve in the next few years, with a pathway set to achieve them and guarantee that by using our foliage that we increase the sustainability and beneficial ecological footprint of any flower bouquet while at the same time improving it carbon, water and biodiversity footprint.
