IPPS Annual Conference 2025 – Ticket Sales and Sponsors.

Starting 08 October 2025

October 8 – October 10

BOOK YOUR TICKETS

The IPPS Conference will take place in Peterborough on the 8th-10th October 2025 at the Park Inn by Radisson.

The IPPS Europe Annual Conference is back — and for the second consecutive year, we’re thrilled to host it in the UK!

This is a must-attend event for anyone involved in plant production across the UK and EU — whether you’re a grower, supplier, retailer, end-user, or industry body. The conference brings the industry together to:

Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the industry, the IPPS conference offers something for everyone.

Why Attend?

This year’s event takes place in Peterborough, perfectly positioned near the horticulture hubs of East Anglia and South Lincolnshire. The programme includes:

Expect engaging nursery visits and expert-led sessions designed to spark innovation and discussion.

 The full conference brochure can be viewed here.

The full three-day itinerary can be viewed below!

Sponsor & Showcase Your Business

Partnering with IPPS Europe as a sponsor is a fantastic way to position your brand in front of key UK & EU industry players. Your support helps grow the event and gives your business valuable visibility and recognition.

Become an IPPS Member

By becoming an IPPS member, you’ll enjoy:

Sign up for membership today and be part of a dynamic, international horticultural community.

Grow, Learn, Share.
We look forward to welcoming you in Peterborough this October!

BOOK YOUR TICKETS TODAY

Using your phone or tablet, scan the QR code below to download our app. Alternatively, follow this link to book your conference tickets.

2025 CONFERENCE SPONSORS

We are pleased to announce that ICL are our Platinum Sponsors of the 2025 Conference.

ICL is leading the way in quality peat-free growing media – shaping the future of sustainable horticulture. Offering bespoke growing media mixes through our Levington Advance Solutions package, we incorporate our industry leading brands such as Osmocote controlled release fertiliser, as well as our biological additives, such as Vitalnova TriBoost to improve plant health & quality. ICL’s vast growing solutions portfolio and services are designed to meet growers’ current and forthcoming requirements, to provide long-term solutions for your nursery.

We are thrilled to announce Gramoflor as our Headline Sponsor.

What began in 1908 as Anton Gramann’s peat trading company is now Gramoflor GmbH & Co. KG – a modern substrate manufacturer with a clear focus on peat reduction.

With around 130 employees at two sites in northern Germany and a production facility on the Iberian Peninsula, we supply professional and amateur gardeners in Germany and abroad with high-quality substrates and soils.

Our heart beats for the protection of peatlands, which is why we are committed to the development and preservation of raised bogs in northern Germany.

We are pleased to announce Hortec as a Headline Sponsor.

With a central UK base in Warwickshire, Hortec has been offering solutions to UK Growers for more than 30 years acquiring an enviable reputation as suppliers of quality machines backed up by an experienced team dedicated to providing the very best in service, support and technical know-how.

We thrilled to announce Popplemann as a Headline Sponsor.

Pöppelmann was founded in 1949 in Lohne (Oldenburg), Germany and is a leading family business in the plastics processing industry. They develop and produce high-quality generic and bespoke products for a wide range of industries in the automotive, medical technology, food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and horticultural sectors. The company has over 2,500 employees and serves customers in over 90 countries, from five production facilities around the world.

The Pöppelmann TEKU® division develops and produces plant pots and cultivation systems for the professional horticulture sector. The diversity of the TEKU® range with over 600 products in more than 2,000 variants offers the ideal solution for every type of production. From pots and trays through to custom printing, Pöppelmann TEKU® can offer everything from one source. 

We are delighted that Hutchinsons are our Conference Package Support Sponsor.

Hutchinsons is one of the UK’s leading providers of agronomic advice and crop inputs, offering comprehensive advice from crop management decisions to long-term strategic business planning.

Hutchinsons provide specialist advice on agroecology, environmental services, carbon measurement, mapping and management, precision farming, soil health and farm business management.

We are delighted to announce that The Bransford Webbs Plant Company are a 6 Packer Support Sponsor.

The Bransford Webbs Plant Company is one of the leading growers of ornamental plants in the UK. We are a wholesale nursery based in Worcestershire and supply new and innovative plant promotions to garden centres across the UK. Established in 1961, the nursery covers fifteen hectares and produces two million plants per year. We grow a range of shrubs and herbaceous perennials. The nursery is proud to be a local employer, employing up to 100 staff during peak season.  We have held the British Standard in Environmental Management Systems for over 10 years, and sustainability is a key element in our decision making.

We are pleased to announce Proptek as a 6 Packer Support Sponsor.

John Cooley in the early 1980’s was growing vegetable young plants in Expanded Polystyrene trays and figured there had to be a better way to improve plants per square meter. He worked on propagation trays in thermoformed and then injection moulded plastics and increased the P/SM by 20%. He took this idea to California where he started work by including Air Pruning technology into the tray design.

30 years later a whole range of Air Pruning propagation and growing trays became commonplace throughout the USA and Asia making Proptek a Global Company. The positive responses from growers in these regions allowed Proptek to fine tune the tray designs to allow for full mechanisation and the use of Ellepots to further aid Air Pruning.

The benefits to the nurseries are a reduction in labour, reduction in substrate use and maximum efficiency in water and fertigation management. All due to making propagation trays that suit mechanised transplanting and nursery transport systems and Air pruning technology.

Air Pruning allows the roots to grow through the sides of the cells where the tips are pruned by the air. This creates further roots that repeat the same process and behind them, a mass of feeder roots are created that are there to take up water and nutrients creating better plants and increased yields, reduced transplant fatalities, improved regrowth in pots and in fields. No longer do we see root circling, “J” or tap roots or water stagnation in root bound pots.

Proptek operates on a low carbon footprint. All the trays currently offered are Injection Moulded for long life (average 20 years), made from a high percentage recycled material, and usually manufactured in the country where the customer is based. Proptek only owns the tools and looks for existing Injection Moulding factories to manufacture closest to where the customer resides. This reduces the carbon footprint significantly.

With a combined nursery production experience of over 100 years, we employ specialists in our sales and production teams to best serve the nursery industry. We let the roots do the work!

We are pleased to announce BHGS as a 6 Packer Support Sponsor.

BHGS is a leading dedicated horticultural distributor of professional products to, among others, commercial growers, garden centres, large estates and allotment societies.

We are thrilled to announce Crocus as a 6 Packer Support Sponsor.

Crocus launched in April 2000 and has grown into the UK’s largest gardening website, offering a huge range of over 6,500 plants, together with the tools that make it easy for gardeners of all levels to find everything they need in one place.

As experts in their field, Crocus grows plants for show gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and has worked with 20 of the country’s leading designers to secure 31 gold medals. Crocus also works with garden designers, such as Luciano Giubbilei, Tom Stuart Smith and Dan Pearson, to create some of the world’s most celebrated gardens. This collaboration process has allowed Crocus to constantly evolve its plant palette to offer the most extensive plant range, always featuring the latest trends.

We look forward to seeing you at the 2025 IPPS Conference!