By Ian Atkinson – CEO, Nursery & Garden Industry Queensland
Here in southern Queensland, this year has meant rain, more rain, and a large dash of flooding and earlier this year we experienced some extraordinary flooding events. We estimate about thirty businesses were impacted by flooding on their sites, about half of those quite badly.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Joanna Cave – Chief Executive Officer, Greenlife Industry Australia
A keystone event in the Australian horticulture calendar is the Hort Connections conference and trade show, which was presented in Brisbane again this year. Attending for the first time, I found myself deeply impressed by the scale and professionalism of the event.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Ian Atkinson – CEO
In recent months, the Federal and Queensland State governments have announced the most radical change in decades to drought funding for primary producers. No longer are the needs of our industry to be ignored.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Matthew Lunn – EO
With the ongoing pressure from WA’s State Government for nurseries to reduce their use of water and improve their efficiency, NGIWA has been proactive in the past few months in pushing the government back and promoting the advances many nurseries have made in their water management.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Joanna Cave – Chief Executive Officer
I am delighted to introduce myself to Hort Journal readers. Before joining GIA, I was for 25 years CEO of various peak bodies and not-for-profit organisations in the UK and then Australia. Along the way, I qualified first as a horticulturist and then as a landscape designer, initially in pursuit of a private passion that swiftly became part of my professional life as I found myself working in Australian horticulture.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Danielle Chapman – Executive Officer Nursery & Garden Industry of SA
The Nursery and Garden Industry of SA is proud to announce the winner of the SALIFE Gardens and Outdoor Living People’s Choice Garden Centre of the Year Award is Barossa Nursery.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Ian Atkinson – CEO Nursery & Garden Industry Queensland (NGIQ)
Queensland is certainly a state of contrasts at the moment with a large part of western Queensland still in drought but record-breaking floods in the south-east corner of the state.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Anita Campbell – CEO Nursery & Garden Industry NSW & ACT (NGINA)
As the water recedes in flood affected areas of our state, the heartbreaking extent of the devastation has been revealed. Our thoughts remain with all our members and their staff who have been affected.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Lloyd Godman
From the art of photography to photosynthesis and a sustainable means of integrating plants into architecture.
In 1985, I set up and then ran the photography section at the Dunedin School of Art, in New Zealand, for 20 years.… Continue reading
Read MoreJoanna Cave has been announced as the new CEO of Greenlife Industry Australia (GIA). Joanna brings more than 25 years leadership experience as CEO of a variety of peak bodies, member organisations and not-for-profit associations, firstly in the United Kingdom (UK) and from 2009 in Australia.… Continue reading
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