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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Residents are being warned of the arrival of pest of trees called the polyphagous shot-hole borer (Euwallacea fornicates). The beetle was found in a maple tree in a backyard in East Fremantle. The area is now quarantined so mulch, wood, containerised trees and plants can’t be moved in some parts […]
The Digital Funnel I wonder if the exotically named E. St Elmo Lewis had any idea when he published his AIDA Funnel in 1898 that his model would fuel the online marketing boom over a hundred years later? To put it in context, the invention of the quaintly obsolete filing […]
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