A design of this calibre by Robert Doyle Landscape Design requires a high-level skill set to design, implement and maintain. (Image: Karen Smith)
By Daniel Fuller
If you’d like to call yourself a professional horticulturist, you need a nationally accredited, industry-relevant qualification. Recently, I interviewed Ian Gaston from TAFE NSW for a podcast episode on gaining a TAFE horticultural qualification. Here is what he advised.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Clive Larkman
The plant world is a large and fascinating part of the world’s biosphere. As horticulturists we engage in growing and using plants in business and daily life. The range is huge, from single cell organisms like algae to huge trees like the Californian Redwood.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Bruce Thompson
Australians produce 3.4 million tonnes of plastic each year but just 13% is recycled. And we’re above average because globally, only 9% of all plastic is recycled. With the future forecast of there being more pieces of plastic than fish in the world’s oceans by 2050, it’s a fate our quickly plasticising oceans seems unable to avoid.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Daniel Fuller
If what some people say about eucalypts were true, they’d be sentient monsters intent on destroying human civilisation itself. Apparently, they are widow makers, their roots damage property, they poison the soil, they cause fires, and the list of offences goes on.… Continue reading
Read MoreLabel Name: Grevillea ‘Wendy Sunshine’
ACRA 1265 (registered Nov 2010)
Family: Proteaceae
Origin: An open-pollinated hybrid between Grevillea bipinnatifida (Chittering Valley) x Grevillea thyrsoides ssp. pustulata. Applicant Name: Neil R Marriott
Characteristics: A grey/green, low-growing, dense shrub 0.3-0.5m (h) x 1-1.5m (w).… Continue reading
Read MoreThe summer in NSW and Queensland has been a very wet event this year following a trend of recent wet seasons and I feel so sorry for people affected by floods and torrential downpours. The extended wet periods and extreme humidity have increased the number of unwanted indoor plants in the form of moulds.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Karen Smith
Entering the Exhibition Centre, Carlton Gardens for the recent Melbourne International Flower and Garden show (MIFGS), visitors were treated to a sea of colour, the main area complete with a carousel in the centre surrounded with chrysanthemums, and the eye-dazzling floral displays nearby were works of art.… Continue reading
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akas landscape architecture provided a provocative, yet very timely, reminder of our climate emergency (Image: Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show)
By Gabrielle Stannus
After a three-year absence from our event calendar, the 2022 Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show (MIFGS) once again bloomed into action, with more than 103,000 people in attendance at Carlton Gardens and the Royal Exhibition Building. With so much on display, it was hard not to experience sensory overload.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Karen Smith
Over one million plant specimens valued at $280 million have now moved to the National Herbarium of NSW at Mount Annan Botanical Gardens after almost 170 years at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.
Recent extreme weather events have really focused attention on how frail the environment has become.… Continue reading
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Bio pellets from The Plant Runner, a certified organic slow-release fertiliser made from a combination of seaweed and frass. (Image: Karen Smith)
By Bruce Thompson
Native to South America but naturalised in most parts of the world, Black Soldier Flies (Hermetia illucens) are being used in Australia to convert food waste into stockfeed and fertiliser.
Commonly sighted around compost bins and worm farms, unlike houseflies (Musca domestica) black soldier flies do not have a mouth-piece meaning they don’t bite and can’t transmit diseases so there’s no health risk posed to humans.… Continue reading
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