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Nursery Papers – Navigating pesticide regulation in horticulture

11/08/2025 admin 337 Views 0 Comments

Safeguarding access through industry coordination

Introduction:

Australia’s horticulture industry is operating in an increasingly complex regulatory environment. Domestic and international bodies are intensifying scrutiny of pesticide use in response to growing concerns about environmental sustainability, food safety and trade standards.

Many growers have historically taken a reactive approach to pesticide regulation, often discovering limitations only after key products are withdrawn or restricted due to regulatory changes.… Continue reading

Advertorial Editorial

Most popular trees and large shrubs of 2024-25

11/08/2025 admin 349 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Daniel Fuller

Nursery businesses are always interested in what plants are popular in the market because this information can help them make informed choices for what to stock. According to Ozbreed’s data from the 2024-25 financial year, here are the Australian trees and large shrubs that showed the biggest demand through our nursery networks based on unit sales.… Continue reading

‘Between Moments’, designed and constructed by Ben Hutchinson Landscapes (Image: Ludovic Vilbert, Inwardout Studio)

Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show Plants

A photographic tour of MIFGS

11/08/2025 Gabrielle Stannus 353 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Gabrielle Stannus

Continuing from the article I wrote in May, which covered the Gold medal winning ‘‘ǝ’skāp’ display garden at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show (MIFGS), I have put together some of my other plant highlights from that event just for you!… Continue reading

The new rear garden includes a hardy lawn area of TifTuf grass, pool and cabana, framed by rows of Waterhousea floribunda (weeping lilli pilli) around the boundaries of the garden to ensure privacy

Garden Design Landscape

In the swim

11/08/2025 By Lynne Testoni 322 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Lynne Testoni

This elegant and classically designed garden proved to be an award winner for Inspired Exteriors.

An engaged, design-conscious client is always a plus, as landscape designers Inspired Exteriors found when they were engaged to create this beautiful garden in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs.… Continue reading

Plants collected locally around Cairns being grown on in the Cairns Botanic Gardens nursery before they are ready to be planted out (Image: Cadel Boyce)

Botanic Gardens Plants

Unique local plants at Cairns Botanic Gardens

11/08/2025 Cadel Boyce 275 Views 0 Comments

By Cadel Boyce

The role of botanic gardens in recent years has changed from a focus on displaying the breadth of the world’s flora to facilitating a living collection of both exotic and local native plants of importance. Australia has a unique floral biodiversity due to its long geological period of isolation.… Continue reading

Business File Editorial

Reframing setbacks in business

11/08/2025 John Corban 335 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By John Corban

For many years, whenever something did not go well in my business, I would get annoyed or frustrated. That all began to shift about 18 years ago when I studied Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and was introduced to a powerful tool called reframing.… Continue reading

A halved pod exposing the corn cob of cacao beans inside (Image: Caleb Roberts)

Plant Palette Plants

The case for cacao

11/08/2025 Caleb Roberts 400 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Caleb Roberts

Botanical name: Theobroma cacao

Common name: Cacao tree or cocoa tree

Family: Malvaceae

**A beautiful red flush of growth on this cacao (Image: Caleb Roberts)**

Origin: With a long history in the Amazon basin, cacao was traded as a currency well before chocolate coins hit supermarket shelves.… Continue reading

Editorial Newsbuds

New research reveals a solution for Australia’s productivity slump

11/08/2025 admin 139 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

Australia’s GDP could be boosted by up to $50 billion a year if supply chain data standards were improved, according to a new report.

A new research report from the Centre for International Economics and commissioned by GS1 Australia, the body responsible for the common retail barcode, reveals that industry use of supply chain data standards is quietly driving a significant share of Australia’s economic output, contributing up to $27.3 billion annually to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and could play an increasingly important role in reversing the nation’s lagging productivity.… Continue reading

The endangered Euphrasia lasianthera found growing in an open grassland in the Victorian Alps (Image: Alex McLachlan)

Australian Euphrasia Environment & Sustainability

Eyebright delight: Euphrasia in horticulture

11/08/2025 admin 322 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

Alex McLachlan

Many Australian Euphrasia species face declining populations due to significant changes in climate, with rising temperatures in Australia’s alpine regions putting Euphrasia populations at high risk. Botanic gardens are actively working to conserve some of the rarest species, however much work remains before euphrasia can be considered truly safe from extinction.… Continue reading

Dr Chris Brosnan (L) and Stephen Fletcher (R) in the University of Queensland laboratory (Image: The University of Queensland)

Editorial Newsbuds

Maxing out chemical-free crop protection with dsRNAmax

11/08/2025 admin 223 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

A software package developed and validated at The University of Queensland can tailor safe, effective and chemical-free crop protection using RNA interference (RNAi).

The dsRNAmax software designs double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) to target pest and pathogen species while excluding off-target species like beneficial insects.… Continue reading