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MEDIA RELEASE Ground-breaking project first step on path to restore Norfolk Island Wednesday 27 October 2021 A clear picture of what Norfolk Island looked like before European arrival has emerged from a project that has, for the first time ever, mapped native vegetation across the entire island, as it exists […]
Prolific writer and Queensland Horticultural Media member, Kate Wall, is celebrating the launch of her second, self-published gardening book titled, ‘Earth Repair Gardening; The lazy gardener’s guide to saving the Earth’. This follows on from her bestselling 2019 release, ‘Working with Weeds: A practical guide to understanding, managing and using […]
Prolific writer and Queensland Horticultural Media member, Kate Wall, is celebrating the launch of her second, self-published gardening book titled, ‘Earth Repair Gardening; The lazy gardener’s guide to saving the Earth’. This follows on from her bestselling 2019 release, ‘Working with Weeds: A practical guide to understanding, managing and using […]
The City Gardener by Richard Unsworth Richard Unsworth is the essence of a ‘City Gardener’. The owner of outdoor design store Garden Life in Sydney, Unsworth is also a garden designer and writer specialising in inner urban spaces. He puts these skills to good use in his second book, The […]
By Gabrielle Stannus As a designer and gardener with (quite a few) less years under my belt than Paul Bangay, I have always been somewhat intimidated by what I perceived as his intensely formal landscaping style. How does Bangay, one of Australia’s most well-known landscape designers, create such elegant gardens, […]
MEDIA RELEASE Ground-breaking project first step on path to restore Norfolk Island Wednesday 27 October 2021 A clear picture of what Norfolk Island looked like before European arrival has emerged from a project that has, for the first time ever, mapped native vegetation across the entire island, as it exists […]
Prolific writer and Queensland Horticultural Media member, Kate Wall, is celebrating the launch of her second, self-published gardening book titled, ‘Earth Repair Gardening; The lazy gardener’s guide to saving the Earth’. This follows on from her bestselling 2019 release, ‘Working with Weeds: A practical guide to understanding, managing and using […]
Part Two of the HMAA’s Phone Videography webinar is on this Saturday at 5pm (ESDT), 4pm (Qld), 5.30pm (SA) and 2pm (WA). Part 1 is available to watch online on the HMAA website HERE To get the webinar link, email Deryn Thorpe on deryn@derynthorpe.com.au
HMASA Secretary Dianne Hall By June Taylor The old adage “if you want something done, ask a busy person” certainly does ring true in the case of Dianne Hall, who is Secretary of HMA in South Australia. This busy, always positive and enthusiastic woman who’s a wife, mother, grandmother, company […]
Many groups of insect pests can be easily managed with relatively simple cultural strategies combined with insecticides, and through the increasing availability of low-risk IPM-friendly insecticides, which can be used to preserve predators and parasitoids and manage insect pests. But what do you do when dealing with insect pests with […]
Queensland HMA members enjoyed a delightful October meeting hosted by Edward and Mary Bunker of Proven Winners in the historical grounds of Redlands Nursery at Redland Bay. Established in 1958, propagation is still carried out within the original nursery structures. In showing members operations, leading nursery hand Neil Venn proudly […]
The recent passing of Gerry Zwart was greeted with great sadness by members of the Horticultural Media Association Queensland (HMAQ) and the wider community. Gerry passed away in hospital on the evening of the 6th October after a fall at home. Valerie Zwart, his wife of 68 years, was by […]
The large Sydney garden centres, Eden Gardens at Macquarie Park, is hosting a sculpture display that will be launched on October 31 and opens on Monday, November 1. Titled Eden Unearthed, the show will include 35 sculptures and runs for six months. The winning sculptor will received a prize of […]
HMAA member Penny Woodward has compiled a very useful glossary of gardening terms and definitions for Organic Gardener. Penny’s list covers everything from bare rooted to soil amendments with a bias towards organics. What makes this glossary so interesting and useful for all is that it also includes links to […]
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