By Matthew Lunn – EO Nursery & Garden Industry Western Australia (NGIWA)
As the financial year draws to a close, NGIWA has thankfully survived another twelve months of unrest with COVID19. It has only been as recent as March that the state government lifted border restrictions.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Dannielle Chapman – Executive Officer Nursery & Garden Industry of SA
The Nursery and Garden Industry of South Australia recently presented its Awards of Excellence for 2022 at the Stamford Grand in Glenelg. The two hundred strong crowd celebrated the best of the best in our industry as we acknowledged the hard work devoted to member businesses over the last couple of years, and let our hair down for the night.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Anita Campbell – CEO Nursery & Garden Industry NSW & ACT (NGINA)
The June NGINA Trade Day represented a huge milestone in our nearly 50-year history of Trade Day.
On the third Wednesday of each month, NGINA holds a trade-only plant market that connects growers and allied suppliers with buyers from across NSW and the ACT.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy 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 Denis Crawford
There is more than one type of insect life cycle. Understanding the life cycles of insects can help when managing pests and/or encouraging beneficial insects.
In Pest Files of April this year I described the insect life cycle of ‘complete metamorphosis’ or holometabolous development, from egg to larva to pupa to adult.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Clive Larkman
Bush tucker, Aussie food, native food, are some of the names used for herbs, fruit and other native edibles. It covers a broad range of edible plants that are native to Australia. The majority have some connection to Indigenous Australians as medicinal, herbal or food sources.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Gabrielle Stannus
Halfway between a shade sail and a tree, the Canopee is an innovative form of green infrastructure designed to increase canopy cover and mitigate the impact of climate change in our urban concrete jungles. Of French origin, the use of these structures is now ‘growing’ across Australia.… Continue reading
Read MoreWell, it really was a delight to go to a conference after a couple of years of not going anywhere. The International Plant Propagators Society celebrated its 50th anniversary at their conference held at the Fairmont Resort in Leura, which was where their first conference was held.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Karen Smith
Fifty years after the first meeting of plant propagators under the banner of the International Plant Propagators Society, the IPPS returned to the Blue Mountains in NSW to celebrate the ongoing success of the society. The two years since the last conference did nothing to lessen the camaraderie and goodwill shared between members.… Continue reading
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