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Design with Nature: reconnecting people and place from 23-27 March 2018 at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre. Conference organisers have gathered a fabulous collection of speakers – for the first time 12 presentations by key international speakers and two Australians. Delegates can visit the Melbourne International Flower & Garden […]
The Noosa Botanic Gardens Plant Fair is held each year on Father’s Day – this year, Sunday 3rd September. HMAQ member and Chair of the Friends of Noosa Botanic Gardens, Paul Plant, said this free event attracted well over 2500 people from the various areas of South East Queensland. Supported […]
The HMAA AGM was held on 19 Oct via a phone link. During the AGM a motion was moved to integrate HMA News online with a new website that would incorporate a national database of members as part of the one Association. The HMAA Executive acknowledges that this process will […]
The typical residential and commercial landscape projects seen at previous Landscaping Victoria Industry Awards were this year upstaged by a unique wetland restoration project with the prestigious ‘Landscape of the Year’ being awarded to Australian Ecosystems for their Armstrong Creek, Connewarre project. Brendan Condon, Director of Australian Ecosystems, and his […]
As part of the Victorian School’s Garden Awards students are encouraged to enter a new category that aims to incorporate other aspects of a schools’ curriculum into the practical gardening outlet. The category is the HMA Journalism Award for Best Horticultural Article. The question to be answered by submissions was […]
Brisbane EKKA historical showcase highlights the advancement of horticulture in Queensland for the education and enjoyment of the passing 2017 crowds In the 1800s, Queensland was the centre of tropical and sub-tropical horticultural research in Australia. The introduction of plant species into Australia and also export to other countries was […]
A Plant & Food Research project into the unique way liverworts shield themselves from extreme environments has been awarded funding for ongoing research in the latest round of Marsden Awards. Liverworts, simple plants named for some species’ liver-like shape, are closely related to the first plants to evolve on land […]
The first issue of HMA News was published by the Victorian HMA in May 1997 as a slim magazine of just 12 pages – eight in black & white with just the four cover pages in colour. Those were the days when full four colour process was just too expensive […]
Not surprising in this digital age in which we live, HMA News is to cease production in its conventional printed form, converting instead to a new digital format following the summer edition. As I was the founding editor back in those heady days of 1997, our editor Miffy Gilbert has […]
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