By Daniel Fuller
Flowers are great, but they’re fleeting. A good landscape design includes plants with eye-catching foliage that will provide aesthetic value month after month, year after year.
Ozbreed has bred several new native cultivars with foliage full of interesting colours, shapes, and textures.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy John Corban
The new financial year has begun, and if you have not already done so, now is the time to analyse your P&L from the year just finished.
By following my three simple steps, you can analyse your numbers and percentages.… Continue reading
Read MoreWhat ethical sourcing means for your bottom line
These aren’t just idle thoughts for consumers. They are important criteria for making buying decisions – and businesses are increasingly aware of the need for making ethical sourcing decisions.
Australian markets are becoming more and more connected to international systems, organisations, and influences.… Continue reading
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In 2007 all company activities were combined in the revolutionary Priva Campus Building in De Lier, Netherlands
News edited by John Fitzsimmons
Dutch company Priva last month marked its 65th year of business with a list of major new products and technical developments at Green Tech 2024 in Amsterdam.
Priva was founded in 1959 by Jan Prins and his uncle Cor Valk as Valk en Prins to import heaters for greenhouses; heaters that were safer and cleaner to use than existing solutions.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Patrick Regnault
Humic and fulvic acids are used as bio-stimulants to promote plant growth and increase nutrient availability and uptake. The ornamental horticulture industry is looking to reduce its environmental impact – think of all the fertilisers used on lawns and gardens, sport fields and parklands.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Lisa Wightwick
Plant propagation is fostered by a vision of potential. We may only be involved at the very beginning of a plant’s journey, but we look towards the future with the hope they flourish and have a positive impact on the world around them.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Nicola Cameron
Blending the garden to suit the lifestyle of entertaining with family and friends was high on the priority list for the owners of this lovely home in the Sydney suburb of Haberfield, New South Wales.
Being passionate gardeners they were keen to integrate productive gardens along with compost and storage areas positioned discretely, leaving the entertainment areas to blend seamlessly with the interior living and pool areas.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Daniel Fuller
I was born in 1990, and like many of my fellow millennials, I grew up being told that I could do anything I put my mind to. I believe that the world could be better than it is right now, and I reckon I’ve got some pretty good ideas on the direction we need to move as an industry.… Continue reading
Read MoreClive Larkman
As a child I doubt I ever ate avocado and I don’t think any of my friends did. It was an exotic fruit that you might have seen as a dip at the original Taco Bills but rarely elsewhere.… Continue reading
Read MoreThere is often a lot of talk about the ageing workforce in horticulture, so it was heartwarming to see many young people in attendance at a conference I attended recently for the International Plant Propagators Society (IPPS). They were a breath of fresh air and contributed enormously to the event.… Continue reading
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