Most of us know what it feels like to have something stolen. It creates a sinking feeling that hits you in the gut. When it comes to plants, that takes it to another level! One day I came out into my front garden (which doesn’t have a fence) and found that a massive clump of bromeliads had simply been ripped out.… Continue reading
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Mediterranean influences, bold leaf foliage, soft curves, timber and stone materials, and colour palettes of earthy naturals, greens, blues, and fresh white. With a business grounded in being amongst the first to deliver outdoor design trends, Matt Leacy, creative director and founder of the award-winning Landart, shares some of the key outdoor trends for 2023.… Continue reading
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By Michael Casey
Urban greening is becoming an important tool in helping to address climate change by adding greenery into our built environment. The one design inclusion that green infrastructure experts are starting to use more and more is the installation of trees into, and onto, buildings.… Continue reading
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By Dan Austin
There is nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear, than to stand with a view of a landscape with no trees. It doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as the Slim Dusty classic “Pub with no beer” but the sentiment is spot on.… Continue reading
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By Chelsea Payne
Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (PSHB) has emerged as a significant tree pest in Perth, Western Australia, and presents a threat to Australia’s incredible native flora, and our thriving horticulture and agriculture industries.
Described as the ‘perfect invader,’ the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle Euwallaceae fornicatus tunnels into living host trees and shrubs creating extensive galleries within structural stems.… Continue reading
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By John Fitzsimmons
One of the most perennially popular garden plant genus worldwide has a name that is just as widely mis-pronounced, mostly by English speakers. However, that doesn’t seem to affect its widespread and continuing appeal.
Fuchsias are among the most universally popular and instantly recognised garden plants.… Continue reading
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By Patrick Regnault
Before compiling this article, I asked colleagues in different parts of Australia to provide me with three trees they find perform well; one for shade, one for ornamental purposes and one fruiting, and to give me the reasons for their choices.… Continue reading
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By Clive Larkman
As a plant for ornamental and medicinal use, lavender has a history as long as European settlement. Even with this history, there has been very little research and understanding of how to farm this tough little plant. There are numerous thoughts that the plant needs neither food nor water making it an interesting plant for the lazy farmer or those in poor countries with little rainfall.… Continue reading
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Background: Australia’s nursery industry is one of the most efficient, sustainable, and innovative agricultural sectors in Australia and in the world.
Alongside your own innovation, the levy system continues to invest in consistent and sustained research via the to ensure continued improvement as an industry.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy John Corban
Five steps to create a viable succession plan for your business (This plan can also be used to sell your business)
Are you at a stage in your business where you have been thinking about creating a succession plan?… Continue reading
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By Denis Crawford
Many ants are beneficial, but some ant species can be pests in some situations. When is that?
This Pest Files is inspired by some recent encounters I had with ants. In late January 2023 I noticed several species of ants climbing the trunk of a young roadside gumtree (Eucalyptus obliqua).… Continue reading
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By Georgia Warren
Workplace farms add environmental and social amenity to office spaces, as well as economic value. Green spaces woven into and around the built form provide a sense of human scale and relationship to the broader urban form.
By growing food, workplace farms provide a range of benefits for workplaces, including improved food security and nutrition, reduced food bills, increased social connection, and opportunities for exercise and team building.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Daniel Fuller
Whether you’re seeking a role in horticulture production, landscape construction, or parks and garden maintenance, your resume should demonstrate how you are exactly what the employer is looking for. Here are twelve expert-level tips to help you create a standout resume so you no longer go unnoticed by employers, and you can finally land that job you’ve been dreaming of.… Continue reading
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By Melissa J Scott
Too often when a business owner is looking for a website developer, the focus on technical ability and the mechanics and not on the brand identity or how to convert traffic into paying customers through heart-felt connection.… Continue reading
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By Melinda Hird
Today, the world of digital marketing is bigger than ever before. What’s more, consumers are demanding more variety in their daily lives. This means that marketers need to adapt their strategies accordingly and add new content types to their mix of existing media.… Continue reading
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Greenlife Australia has issued a Biosecurity Alert for the bacterial disease pest Xylella spp. following the release by The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry of a draft pest risk analysis report for pathogens in the genus. Xylella fastidiosa is the highest ranked pest threat to Australian horticultural and plant-based industries, and the environment.… Continue reading
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Conservation efforts of WA’s rare orchids have been impacted by theft
Display plantings of threatened orchids have been targeted by thieves in Kings Park and Botanic Garden (KPBG).… Continue reading
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Characteristics: The characteristics of these two banksias are very similar. Both are fairly dense, medium shrubs, with Banksia ‘Red Rover’ being perhaps slightly taller and reaching 2m x 1.5m. The flowers are terracotta/red in colour and the leaves are a bright mid-green.… Continue reading
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Characteristics: A small-medium spreading shrub 1.5m x 3m. The flowers are orange and pink, individuals 54mm; conflorescence 114mm from August to June. It is distinguished from G. bipinnatifida by its deeply, twice-divided fine foliage and its larger spreading habit, and from G.… Continue reading
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Characteristics: A groundcover that grows to 0.2m (h) x 1-2m (w) with orange flowers 35mm, Conflorescence 100mm, in bloom from July to November. It is distinguished from Grevillea nana ssp. nana by its smaller leaves with more numerous, closely aligned pinnae and its pink/orange flowers.… Continue reading
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