By John Corban
The financial year finished recently, so now is the time to plan your profits for 2022. I strongly suggest that you don’t just hope that sales and profit are going to be good in 2022. Instead, create a plan to earn the sales and profit you really want.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Peter Byron
The Ian Potter National Conservatory (Conservatory) is the first major development from the Australian National Botanic Gardens’ (ANBG) 20-year Master Plan, announced by the Australian Government in June 2015. The Conservatory will be a national and international showcase of some of Australia’s most beautiful and unusual tropical native flora.… Continue reading
Read MoreThe recent release of the Consumer Usage & Attitude Research Report (NY2002), funded by Hort Innovation using the nursery fund, has shed some insight into who is currently buying plants. The research involved surveying 1600 adult Australians, representative of the population and distributed across age, gender and state.… Continue reading
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Liriomyza flies are about 2mm long and not easily seen (Supplied by Denis Crawford of Graphic Science)
By Denis Crawford
Serpentine leafminer is an invasive leafminer fly that has spread through many regions of the world and was detected in Australia late last year for the first time.
Serpentine leafminer (Liriomyza huidobrensis) was first detected in Australia in the Sydney basin in October 2020 on field-grown vegetable crops.… Continue reading
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Robert Megier from ICL in the field conducting a trial on Osmocote with Spathiphyllum spp. (Image: ICL)
By Gabrielle Stannus
We speak to industry experts to find out the pros and cons of some fertilisers commonly used indoors, including controlled release, water-soluble, foliar and organic applications, and find out why their N-P-K ratio is so important for plant health.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Bruce Thompson
Common Name: Native Mulberry, White Nettle, False Stinger, Queensland Grass-Cloth Plant, Koomeroo-Koomeroo, Kongangn, Thil-la-wo
Genus: Pipturus
Species: argenteus
Family: Urticaceae
Origin: Occurs in coastal range lowland rainforests, on the edges of riverine communities and regrowth with occasional inundation, damp gullies and coral cays from Lismore to Papua New Guinea.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Clive Larkman
2021 and it seems we are living in a crazy world. Without looking at COVID-19 and its maddening repercussions, we need only to look at the ever-evolving world of medicine, herbs and therapies to really be confused.
On the positive side, there is a greater acceptance of non-traditional Western therapies, however, an understanding is far from simple.… Continue reading
Read MoreHort Journal would like to wish Heather Henderson from Greenlife Industry Australia a happy retirement after giving twenty years of her best to the nursery and garden industry. We wish her well and hope Heather enjoys every minute of her well-earned retirement and exciting times ahead.… Continue reading
Read MoreReport by John Fitzsimmons –
Given the challenges of the last two years, organisations like Landscaping Victoria Master Landscapers (LVML) must have been sweating on ultimately delivering The Landscape Show 2021 at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne recently. As it happened though, all organisers, sponsors, exhibitors and attendees fortuitously found a window ahead of the (yet another) COVID-19 lockdown and some extreme winter weather events.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy John Sandham
In the British summer of 1829, while undertaking the collection of a moth pupa into a sealed glass vial, Dr Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791-1868) observed that fern spores and grass seed, captured within the closed environment, could germinate and grow without any outside assistance.… Continue reading
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