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NY005 - Investigation of Autotrophic Micropopagation to Enhance Product
NY006 - Improved Strains for Integrated Mite Control
NY007 - Biological Control of Root Rot in Horticulture
NY009 - Selection and Trialing of Eastern Australian Native Plants as Bedding Plants
NY013 - Improved Nitrogen Management of Container Plants Grown In Media Containing Woodwaste
NY022 - Nursery Market Research
NY023 - Role of temperature in maintaining plant quality during interstate road transport
NY101 - The Nurseryman’s Guide to Water Recycling
NY112 - The Development of Australian Acacias for Flowering Pot Plant Production
NY114 - Western NSW Flora as Flowering Pot Plants
NY118 - Clonal Propagation from Difficult Cuttings of Ornamental Plants by Dynamic Pulse Propagation
NY134 - Study Tour
NY212 - The Incidence of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus in Australian Nursery Crops
NY230 - Year round production of flowering daisies
NY234 - Control of Legionella Spp Particularly Legionella Longbeachae in Potting Mixes
NY237 - National Workshop on Nursery Runoff and Water Quality
NY238 - Overseas Study Tour
NY320 - Development of Recycled Water Systems for Australian Nurseries
NY403 - Increased Productivity in Nursery Dispatch
NY418 & NY225 – Pollution
NY427 - Nursery Export Markets in Asia
NY520 - Implementation of quality management in Lord Howe Island Kentia Palm Nursery
NY521 - Further Releases of the Palm Leaf Beetle Parasite and Assessment of Present Distribution
NY531 - Survey of Nursery Needs
NY541 - Management Committee and Technical Officers Group Conference
NY542 - Development of Profiles for Sectors
NY98047 - An Analysis of Hazardous Plants in the Australian Nursery Industry
NT95003 - Irrigation, Nutrition and Disease Management Strategies
NY95004 - Implementation of a Nursery
NY95005 - Improved Transfer & Adoption of Technology for the VIC
NY518/NY95018 - NIDO at National Level
NY525/NY95025 - Improved Irrigation Fertiliser Management Strategies for Containerised Nursery Plants through Commercial Demonstrations and Further Research
NY540/NY95040 - Transfer & Adoption of Technology for NIAWA
NY97023 - Evaluate & Extend Nursery Irrigation, Drainage & Recycling Practices Set Out In WaterWork Program
HG96016 - Research into Control of Silverleaf Whitefly
NY602/NY96002 - Accreditation Scheme
NY96015 - Detection and Characterisation of Orchid Fleck Virus
NY97004 - Nursery Environmental Self Audit
NY97009 - Nursery Industry Technology Transfer Workshops
NY97011 - Technology Transfer of Integrated Control of Downey Mildew
NY97014 - Benchmarking for Retail & Wholesale Nurseries
NY97024 - Management of Elm Pests and Diseases in Australia
NY97030 - Nursery Industry Market Research Audit
NY97040 - Evaluation of Irrigation Sprinklers for the Nursery Industry
NY97042 - Technology Transfer at NIAA
NY97046 - Plant-Available Silicon (Si) as a Protectant against Fungal Diseases in Soil-Less Potting Media
NY97048 - NSW Nursery Industry Development Officer
NY98001 - Victorian Nursery Industry Development Officer
NY98006 - SA Nursery Industry Development Officer
NY97016/NY98007 - Queensland Nursery Industry Development Officer
NY98008 - Constructed Wetlands to Reduce Nutrient and Pathogen Loads in Recycled Nursery Water
NY98013 - National Nursery Industry Development Manager
NY98015 - Demonstration of Water Management Best Practice in Retail Nurseries
NY98018 - 1999 National Conference, Melbourne
NY98025 - Towards Improving Capacity of Indoor Plants and Potting Mix Components for Indoor Air Pollution Reduction
NY98027 - Transferring Research in Training
NY98028 - Desk Audit of Waste Plastic
NY98031 - Optimum Work Methods in Nursery Potting
NY98039 - 1998 WA State Conference
NY98043 - National Nursery Industry Training
NY98045 - First International Workshop-Weed Risk Assessment
NY98046 - Nursery Chemical Impact Assessment
NY98049 - National Nursery Export Analysis Project
NY98050 - 1999 NIAN Annual Conference
NY98051 - Development of Nursery Industry in WA
Roles of Industry Development
AH99003 - Improved Labeling of Pesticides to Encourage Optimum Use in Horticultural Crops
NY99001 - Nursery Pesticide Application Best Practice Manual
NY99006 - Strategic Planning, Ongoing Development and Evaluation
NY99027 - Implementing NIASA in the NT
NY99037 - Development of Nursery into the 21st Century
NY99038 - Nursery Supply Chain Improvement Program
NY99042 - Nursery Computer Software Evaluation
NY99043 - Development of Retail Garden Centre’s in Queensland
NY99044 - Biological Control with Trichopel
NY99045 - Analysis of Rural Leadership Courses
NY99046 - Interactive Effects of Mycorrhiza and Trichoderma on Plant Performance in the Nursery and Field Phase
AH00012 - Improved Protein Bait Formulations for Fruit Fly Control
AH00022 - A Strategy for Horticulture to Best Capture, Store and Make Available Relevant Information on Environmental Management
NY00007 - Black Root Rot Chalara - A Survey of Australian Nurseries
NY00014 - Technology Transfer New Zealand & Australian Conference 2001
NY00017 - Information Needs in the Nursery Industry
NY00018 - Potential for PCR Based Disease Diagnostic Services in the Nursery Industry
NY00019 - Development of Retail Garden Centres in VIC
NY00020 - Development of Retail Garden Centres –Tasmania
NY00021 - Development of Retail Garden Centres in NSW
NY00022 - Facilitating the Development Of Retail Garden Centres In WA
NY00025 - Development of the NSW Garden Industry
NY00030 - Technology Transfer at the Landscape Conference 2000
NY00032 - The Hardware Box 3 3
NY00035 - Quantification of the Capacity of Indoor Plants to Remove Volatile Organic Compounds under Flow through Conditions
NY00037 - Development of Australian Nursery Strategic Plan
NY00042 - Treenet Pilot Study
NY00043 - Nutrient Charting as a Tool for Fine-tuning Fertilizer Use in Nursery Production Systems
NY00044 - Identification and Improved Propagation of Australian Native Trees for Urban Uses
NY00045 - Accredited Garden Centre Display
NY00046 - Nursery Industry Statistics Collection Project
NY00047 - The Opportunity and Need for a Nursery Export Development Officer
Water Efficiency Workshop
AH01019 - Improved Labeling of Pesticides-Stage 2
HG01054 - Application of Knowledge and Technology
NY01013 - Development of a Garden Market Monitor
NY01019 - Testing Of Air or Steam Sterilising and Pasteurising Processes and Development of Operating Procedures
NY01021 - Horticultural Agrochemical Application Diary
NY01023 - An Integrated Communication Process and Infrastructure for Red Imported Fire Ants within the Landscape Industry
NY01026 - Scaevola and Brachyscome Flowering Pot Plants
AH02014 - Second Stage Information Scoping Study
HG02020 - Combined State Nursery Conference
NY02010 - Identification and Analysis of Pending and Potential Environmental Legislation and other Environmental Initiatives Relevant to the Australian Nursery Industry
NY02011 - Identification of the Top Ten Pest and Disease Risks for the Australian Nursery Industry
NY02023 - Development of SA Nursery Industry
NY02024 - Audit and Gap Analysis Of Nursery Waste-Water Research And Communication
NY02028 - Review of Garden plants resistant to Phytophthora soil fungus in Western Australia
NY02030 - Summer Campaign Strategy
NY02033 - Discovering Alternatives to Garden Escapes & Stopping the Spread of Invasive Plants
NY02036 - Liquid Gold National Conference March 03.
NY02038 - USA Nursery Learning Tour
NY03003 - Improving Indoor Environmental Quality
NY03006 - Planning Professional Program
NY03010 - Future Development of a Garden Industry Market Monitor
NY03011 - Segmentation Study
NY03014 - Development of an Environmental Management System
NY03028 - Australian Garden Awards
NY03038 - Past, Current and Planned Activity by Water Authorities and Others
NY03046 - Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point
AH04009 - Coordination of Minor Use Permits for Horticulture
Creative Dialogue - Water Use in Domestic Gardens
NY04004 - To Develop A Scoping Study of the Potential for Export of Australia Nursery Intellectual Property
NY04005 - Bus Management needs in the NGI
NY04010 - Fostering and Enhancing the Best National and State Management and Dev. Officer Structures
NY04013 - Development of the Certified Nursery Professional
NY04014 & NY04504 - Ongoing Development
NY04016 - Development and Implementation of the Training Program
NY04025 - International Plant Propagators' Society Conference
NY04026 - National IPM Workshops
NY04029 - HAL Final Report - EMS EcoHort
NY04030 - Adoption of HACCP by NIASA
NY04030 - Biosecure HACCP
NY04031 & NY04500 - Maintain and Enhance the AGCAS
NY04036 - Facilitating the Development of the Queensland Landscape industry
NY04502 - HAL Final Report Flora for fauna
NY04506 - Development & Enhancement of the SAWM Scheme
AH05019 - Levies on Imported Products
Ensuring a Profitable and Sustainable Agriculture and Food Sector in Australia
GIEG - HAL B2B E-Commerce Awareness
GIEG - HAL Project Industry Survey
NY05005 - Aust Landscape Industry Conference Aug 06
NY05007 - International Plant Propagators' Society Conference
NY05025 - Building B2B E-commerce Awareness and Competence
NY05503 - Water Program 2- Developing and Promoting Industry Best Practice Water Use for Production and Retail Nurseries
NY05506 - Consumer website
NY05512 - Promoting Plants Regarding Water Requirements
NY06511 - Consumer Marketing
NY06510 - Industry and Stakeholder Marketing
NY06509 - Hip and Trendy Advertising Hits the Mark
NY06036 - Nursery Industry National Environmental Policy Manager
NY06025 - Industry Development Officers Extension Final Report
NY06021 - UTS Project Greening the Great Indoors for Human Health and Wellbeing
NY06020 - NGIA Communications
NY06019 - Industry Training Recog Final Report
NY06018 - Nursery Accreditation and Awards
NY06015 - Nursery Industry Business Skills
NY06014 - Environmental and Technical
NY06013 - Minor Chemical Use and Pesticide Survey
NY06001 - Accreditation for National Interior Plantscapers
NY07017 - Final Report 300908
AH07033 - Incident Response Protocol
NY07003 - Propagators Study Tour
NY07006 - Environmental and Technical v1 110808
NY07008 - Industry Training & Recognition August 08 Final Report
NY07009 - Management and Administration - Nursery Accreditation and Awards
NY07010 – KidsGrow
NY07011 – Comms R&D
NY07013 - May 2010 Managing NI National Environmental Policies
NY07014 - Managing Nursery Industry National Training programs
NY07015 - Management Industry Comms and PR
NY07016 - Increasing Industry Uptake of the Nursery Industry Nat Bus Dev Prog
NY07029 - Managing Pesticide Access in Horticulture
NY07500 - Comms & PR
NY07501 - Industry and Stakeholder Marketing
TU07034 - The Environmental, Social, Economic and Health Benefits of Turf Grasses
NY08001 - National Training Recog
NY08002 - Environmental and Technical Extension
NY08003 - Final Report Comms
NY08006 - Improvements in Supply Chain Efficiencies and Logistics for the NGI
NY08007 - Managing Business Development for Nursery Industry
NY08009 - Industry & Stakeholder Marketing
NY08010 - Final Report Industry Consumer Research and Insight
NY08011 - Kids Grow School Projects
NY08014 - Managing the Nursery Industry National Training and Recognition Programs
NY08015 - Further development of the Garden Market Monitor - Milestone 190 100825
NY08016 - Economic Assessment of HAL Investment in Four Project Clusters for the Nursery Industry
NY08023 - NGIA Communications- Publications
NY08024 - NGIA National Conference
NY08027 - Regional Publications for Nursery and Garden Industry
PA57134 - Increasing Adoption of Irrigation and Water Recycling Technologies in Australian Nurseries
QO91023 - Survey of Potting Media, Components & Mixes
NY09910 - Final Report Partnership Agreement
NY09500 - Nursery Industry Communications and PR
NY09035 - City in a Garden Tour Singapore
NY09032 - Australian Landscape National Conference, SA
NY09031 - Landscaping the Positives in an Economic Downturn
NY09027 - National Analysis of the Aus Landscape Industry
NY09025 - Australian Region of International Plant Propagators Society IPPS Conference 2010
NY09017 - Industry Stakeholder Marketing
NY09013 - Managing the Nursery Industry National Environmental Policies
NY09008 - Final Report Industry Consumer Research Insight Project
HALproject - National Industry Conference and Exhibition
NY03005 - Planning and Development
NY02027 - Understanding of Global Trends
NY01024 - Development of the Queensland Nursery & Garden Industry
AH03002 - Area Wide Management of Fruit Fly
NY07022 – Development of a PDA Compatible Electronic Pictorial Pest and Disease Database
NY07002 – Landscape Awards 2007
NY08017 – 2009 IPPS Conference
AH07026 - The Current and Future Human Resource Needs of Australian Agriculture
NY025 - Soil solarisation of a nursery potting mix
NY138 - Compilation of Guidelines for a Proposed National Nursery Accreditation Scheme
NY128 - Identifying Opportunities for the Improvement of Material Handling and Production Efficiency
NY215 - An Assessment of the Insect and Mite Pests and their Management in NSW North Coast Nurseries
NY113 - Herbicide Tolerance of Container Grown Nursery Stock
NY533 / NY532 - Attendance at the Australasian Plant Pathology Society Conference - CRC/Uni of Qld
NY406 - Control of Downy Mildews in Nursery Seedlings
NY229 - Evaluation of Indigenous Biological Control Agents for Thrips and Broad Mite on Ornamentals
NY209 - Development of Steam-Air Treatments for Control of Seed Borne Diseases of Flower Seeds
NY529 - Presentation of Research at the Nursery Industry Association National Conference
NY511 - Acquisition of Overseas Nutrient Discharge Technology for Evaluation by Australian Nurseries
NY543 - Overseas trip to attend IOBC Conference at Vienna
NY228 - Development of a National Ornamental Crops Database and Information Centre
NY404 - Improving in House Research Capacity of the Nursery Industry
NY317 - Biological control of palm leaf beetle
NY539 - Implementation of Improved Business Practices for Proteaflora Certification to AS/NZS ISO9002
NY612 - Disinfestation Protocols for Equipment Used in the Nursery Industry
NY523 - Varietal Improvement of Indoor Plants by Selection to Withstand Stresses of the Indoor Environment
NY414 - Improving Nursery Irrigation, Drainage and Re-cycling Practices with Training Workshops
NY110 - Insecticidal Control of Cane Weevil in Palms
NY413 - Investigation of Sand Filtration for Nursery Recycling Systems
NY97036 - Technology transfer in the Queensland Nursery Industry Association State Conference
NY610 - Attend International Organisation for Biological Control (IOBC) Conference, Montpellier
NY515 - Monitoring and Treatment of Recycled Water for Nursery and Floriculture Production
NY613 - Publication of R&D Findings and Results
NY506 - The Compatibility of Timber Based Potting Media with Mycorrhizal Activity in Nursery Plant
NY97047 - Nursery Industry Supply Chain Analysis
NY306 - Fungicide Resistance in Isolates of Botrytis from Ornamentals and Development of Control Strategies
NY97049 - NSW Nursery Industry State Conference
NY210 - In search of the Australian petunia
NY96029 - Transferring Research into Nursery Training
NY98040 - New South Wales Nursery Industry Development Officer
NY00031 - Crossnore 2000 - A Festival of Enthusiasm for Ornamental Diseases and Pests
NY624/NY97032 - Development Of Surface Disinfection Protocols For The Australian Nursery Industry
NY97044 - Establishing a National Nursery Industry Retail Accreditation Scheme: The concept, scope, characteristics and management
NY99034 - Attendance at Methods and Markers for Quality Assurance in Micropropagation conference, Ireland
NY97020 - Quality Assurance Technical Support and Technology Transfer for Improved Crop Health in the NSW Nursery Industry
NY00006 - Development and Evaluation of New Test for Water Retention Efficiency of Potting Media
HG01069 - Fruit and Vegetable Study Tour to China to Investigate the Market Opportunities - May 2002
NY02015 - Nursery and Garden Industry Consumer Research
NY99029 - Improved Disease Management in the NSW Nursery Industry
NY02019 - Nursery and Garden Industry Weeds Scoping Study
NY03037 - Consumer Research in Relation to Garden Water Attitudes and Practices
NY03033 - National Strategic Development Workshop for the Landscape Industry Association of Australia, Adelaide, October 2003
HG04007 - Irrigation Knowledge Exchange Program for Horticultural Industries
NY01017 - Nursery ChemCert Certificate Specialist Mdule
NY06028 - International Plant Propagators Society 34th conference, Dubbo, NSW April 2007
NY06022 - Future Development of a Garden Industry Market Monitor
NY07020 - International Plant Propagators Society Conference, Lilydale VIC, May 2008
MT08021 - N, P and K Deficiency Diagnosis in and Consequences for Ptilotus Nobilis Production
NY07018 - Towards Improving Indoor Air Quality with Pot -Plants — A Multifactorial
NY09000 - Propagators Tour of Ireland 2009
MT09052 - The IX International Symposium on Thysanoptera and Tospoviruses, August 31 to September 4 2009, Gold Coast Queensland
MT09093 - International Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium, June 20-24, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York USA
NY536 - Development of Steam-Air Treatments to Control Seed-Borne Diseases of Vegetables and Flowers
NY99047 - Manipulating Growth in Bedding Plants
NY99048 - Study Tour of North American Production Nurseries
NY98052 - Home Gardener Segmentation Study
NY99029 - Improved Disease Management in the NSW Nursery Industry
NY02031 - Nursery Video Case Study for on Track Update
AH09023 - Health and Well-being in Horticulture
NY07001 - Supply and Demand Chain Development via Accreditation/Certification/WaterUse Efficiency with the Landscape Industry
NY09012 - Nursery Industry Regional Communications
NY09016 - Environmental and Technical Extension
NY10700 - Sustainable Urban Environmental Developments
NY09011 - Nursery Industry Training and Recognition 2009/2011
NY10004 - Business Improvement program for the Nursery Industry-Retail
NY10005 - Nursery Environmental & Technical Research and Extension
NY09024 - Integrated Water Systems for Sustainable Urban Landscapes
NY10008 - Nursery Industry - Regional Technical Conferences for the Nursery & Garden Industry
NY10024 - Indoor-plant technology for health and environmental sustainability
NY10701 - IPPS Conference 2011
NY09018 - Business Development for the Australian Nursery Industry
NY11011 - Nursery and Garden Industry Awards Program
NY09004 - Management of Business Development & Improvement programs and Stakeholder Communications for the nursery industry
NY08024 - Nursery Industry National Conference 2012
AH11019 - The impacts of the proposed carbon price mechanism on Australian horticulture
AH11020 - Opportunities for Australian horticulture in the Carbon Farming Initiative
NY513/HG97017 - IPM ONfarm - Protected Cropping
NY001 - Native Plant Production and Phytophthora dieback
NY004 - Analysis of potting media
NY015 - Identification & control of garden weevil & whitefringed weevil in nursery situations
NY00023 - Facilitating the development of Retail Garden Centres in SA
NY00027 - The Nursery & Garden Industry 2000 & Beyond
NY00034 - Imporving Nursery Industry awareness about Garden Escapees
NY00038 - Regional Meetings for the Development of an Australian Nursery Industry Strategic Plan 2001-2006
NY00040 - 29th Annual Conference 2001 IPPS
NY628 - Queensland Nursery Industry Accreditation Officer
NY629 - Transferring research into training
NY631 - NIAN Conference Speakers Papers
NY516/NY95016 - A Non-vented Culture System to Reduce Orchid Production costs
NY525/NY95025 - Commercial adoption of efficient irrigation & fertiliser strategies for containerised nursery plants
NY96015 - Part 1 - Detection and characterisation of orchid fleck virus
NY97018 - Publication of Nursery Papers in Australian Nursery Manager
NY97050 - Safety in the Garden brochure
NY626/NY98020 - Publication of the Nursery Papers
NY00041 - Queensland Association of Landscape Industries
NY01001 - NGIA consultation with HAL Involvement in the conduct & adoption of the Nursery R&D progam
NY01011 - Technology Transfer Industry Development & Information exchange Victorian Conference 2001
NY01025 - Registration of Chemical Control for Red Imported Fire Ants
NY01028 - Technology Transfer Industry Development & Information exchange Victorian Conference 2002
NY04023 - Show Me The Money Consumer Monitor
NY10012 - Consultation and Management of Nursery Industry Projects Managed at Regional Level
NY10700 - Sustainable Urban Environmental Developments
NY224 - Assessment of the potential for management of mycorrhizas in horticulture
NY217 - Field composting procedures to develop consistent disease suppression in potting components
NY120 - Biological control of damping-off diseases in bedding plants
NY239 - Increasing profitability through improved nursery practices
NY312 - Nursery Irrigation, Drainage
NY314 - Analysis of potting media
NY324 - Propagating tulip bulbs for export markets
NY327 - Nursery Industry Trolley Survey
NY528 - Nursery Industry Water Management Best Practice Guidelines - Development
NY535 - To develop a quality system in a camellia nursery certified to AS/NZS ISO 9002
NY538 - IPPS Annual Conference 1996
NY617 - Presentation of R&D outcomes at national Conference
NY618 - A Strategic R&D Plan for the Australian nursery industry 1996-2001
NY623/NY512/NY96023 - An IDO aimed at improving profitability and sustainability in the NSW nursery industry
NY11007 - Identification and Evaluation of Water conservation products and technologies for the Australian urban outdoor market
NY11009 - Improvement and development of the Nursery Production Farm Management System (NPFMS) 11/12
NY115 - Managing Nusery Runoff
NY630 - IPPS Conference Wollongong 1997
NY97041 - Production of 2nd ed. Handbook of the major pest & diseases
NY11021 - Nursery Industry Strategic Investment Plan (SIP)
NYN8047 - an Analysis of Hazardous Plants in the Australian Nursery Industry
NY11000 - Nursery Environmental and Technical Research, Development and Extension
NY11010 - Industry Insights and PR
NY09010 - Industry Development Officer Network for the Nursery Industry
AH11006 - Carbon Amelioration in Horticulture
NY10500 - Nursery Industry Consumer PR Project 2010-2011
AH11005 Horticulture Environmental Desk Audit
NY10010 Nursery Industry (NGIA) Communications
AH11039 Horticulture Leaders - Across Horticulture Leadership Training

Programs

Production Business Improvement

FMS

NIASA


NIASA Business Search

EcoHort

BioSecure HACCP

NIASA Audit Portal (NAP)

Supply Chain


Supply Chain projects

Industry Development Officers

Research, Development & Extension (RD&E)

Current RD&E Projects

Past RD&E Projects

Environmental Sustainability Position

Climate Change


Climate Change Policy
NurseryFootprint - The Australian nursery Industry carbon footprint calculator
Energy Assessments
Renewable Energy Calculator
Renewable Energy Fact Sheets
Urban Forests

Biosecurity

What can I do?

State & Territory Regulations

Plant Labelling

Emergency Plant Pest Response Deed

Biosecurity Manual

BioSecure HACCP

Industry Biosecurity Plan for the Nursery Industry

Contingency Plans

Biosecurity Signs

Pest and Disease Diagnostic Service


How to collect and prepare samples for analysis

Pest Fact Sheets

Pest Management Plans

Myrtle Rust


Myrtle Rust Management Plan 2012
Emergency Use Permit

Further Resources

Biosecurity Contacts

Water


Water Policy
Water Management Best Practice Guidelines
Water Management Toolbox

Crisis Management

Nursery Industry Submissions

RD&E Contacts

Invasive Plants


Grow Me Instead
Invasive Plant Risk Assessment Portal

PR & Communication

Current PR Campaign

PR & Communication contacts


Marketing Committee

Working with the media

Media Releases

Publications & Resources

Nursery Papers


Supporting and Advancing Australian Plant Breeding
Ornamental Plant Breeding in Australia
Working towards greener cities
Assessment of hand watering in production and retail nurseries
A generic economic decision model for the nursery industry to assess proposed changes to a business
Upgrading an irrigation system can improve water uniformity and reduce your operating expenses
Do soil moisture sensors have a role in containerised nursery production?
Smart Approved WaterMark: Helping consumers make water-wise choices
A taster of innovative technologies for the nursery & garden industry
Changing perceptions for a stronger future
Promoting the green credentials of the nursery & garden industry to the consumer through World Environment Day
What is NIASA and how can it benefit you?
BioSecure HACCP
Plant Breeders Rights- An Australian Nursery & Garden Industry Perspective
The art of strategic merchandising
Transforming a dead spot into a hot spot: how to make the most of your retail space
Avoiding the Discount Addiction
Taking control of your future - business succession planning
Reducing the water weed risk - aquatic plants and the nursery industry
Plant Intellectual Property
Managing emergency plant pest incursions - the Emergency Plant Pest Response Deed (EPPRD) and the nursery industry
Future options - moving on from retailing or growing
Water management in retail nurseries and garden centres
Water use in the nursery and garden industry - results of the 2006 Water Use Survey
EcoHort? - the environmental management system for Australian nursery production
Weeds and the nursery industry
Non-ornamentals: the forgotten members of our industry
Future options: new directions for a profitable future
Scheduling irrigation to maximise efficiency
Home is where the heart is
Get the recognition you deserve - the Certified Nursery Professional Program
How efficient is your business water management?
Gardening: A modern-day oasis?
How do the new water rules affect your business?
Nursery and Garden Industry Strategic Plan 2006-08
Protecting your business against fire
The cultural experience of retail
Adding value to your product, your service and your customers experience
Threes a crowd, the three generation workplace.
Advising, Allocating and Approving - the role of the IAC
Achieving a profitable business
Understanding population and social trends
Professional strategies for profitable products and businesses
Development Officers Build Better Businesses
Greenhouse design
Hygiene in plant propagation
Marketing programs: ideas from garden centres
Using pot plants to clean indoor air
Managing Western Flower Thrips using Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
Water restriction effects on gardeners, and how to respond
Simple integrated pest management (IPM) techniques
Tapping into the growing landscaper market
What is your core product?
Pest & disease - prevention is better than cure
Landscaping, the growth opportunity for retailers
New report shows latest trends in the Australian garden market (Feb 2004 Issue no. 13)
Spotted anything Unusual
Understanding and managing nursery weeds
Your Development Officers
Understanding gardeners and garden owners
Ensuring safety in your nursery
Designing a nursery reed bed
Improving efficiencies within the nursery industry
Reed beds clean up nursery run-off water
Getting waterwise messages to your customers
Nutrient Charting
Growth of the nursery and garden industry
The benefits of being professional accreditation
Importing plants its not that hard
Managing and marketing new plants
Biological controls for diseases of nursery plants
Supplying crop nutrition through controlled release fertilisers
Supplying crop nutrition through fertigation
Water quality and nursery crop nutrition
Market research information for your business
Making the internet work for you
The Australian garden market monitor
Water retention efficiency of potting mixes
Pesticide Management Diary CD launched
Disease awareness in the nursery and garden industry
Horticultural industries working together through AusHort
Fire Ants and the nursery and garden industry
The Industry Advisory Committee what does it do?
How the nursery and garden industry benefit from Plant Health Australia
The facts on hazardous plants
Understanding your customers
Discovering alternatives to garden escapes
Flora for fauna plants for birds, bees, butterflies and profitability
Knowing your business costs
How big is your slice?
Understanding distribution channels and product categories
Chalara (black root rot), can you recognise it?
Business information the key to meeting present and future challenges
Water fogging and misting systems are they a risk to human health?
The environment, your nursery & its management
Computer software for the nursery industry
Pot-plants really do clean indoor air
The expanding overseas market for Australian nursery product
Childs play... Kids in The Nursery
Fungus gnats common and damaging!
Invasive plants not wanted in public or private gardens identified
Sprinkler layout and selection for igloos and poly houses
Sprinkler layout and selection for outdoor production areas
Greenlife Buyers Survey - quality and service worth $
Pricing for retail nurseries with that new tax
Maximising profits by building displays to link into promotions
Plant pricing and the GST for growers
Hygiene in the nursery - Disinfecting production surfaces; cement, gravel, capillary mats and sand beds
Reducing the labour costs of potting
Hygiene and sanitation of working surfaces in the nursery
Pot-in-pot container culture
WFT insecticide management
Creating in-store events to maximise retail sales
Beware of Chalara elegans black root rot
Grower success stories on the path to industry development
Windbreaks, an investment in quality and profitability
The southern red mite, another new pest!
WARNING! - Industry chemicals under review
International inter-firm comparisons yield interesting results
Ash Whitefly a new pest
Funding Research and Development for the Australian Nursery Industry
More lies, damned lies and statistics
New flowering pot plants from Western NSW flora
Slow flow sand filtration (SSF) for water treatment in nurseries and greenhouses
Advising gardeners about controlling pests, diseases and weeds
Greenhouse insect screens -making the right selection
Lies, damned lies and statistics!
Your NIDO Network-The national approach to industry development that works for you!
Handle potting mix safely
GrowSearch Australia
Garden centres benchmark financial performance
Getting to know gardeners as consumers
Preventing the introduction of potential weeds as ornamental plants
Financial benchmarking provides real life indicators for business improvement
Performance of controlled release fertilisers at high temperatures
Biological control of insect pests, now and tomorrow
Measure and improve your environmental performance
Are trace elements a waste of money?
Accreditation for business success
Tools to help with decisions on capital expenditure
Getting control of weevil borers and leaf beetles in palms
Garden centres - make better business decisions with better information
Managing Western flower thrips
Grubs in your pots? Are they weevils and what can you do about it?
New hygiene protocols will reduce disease and save on control costs!
Silverleaf whitefly: management of a new nursery pest
Water disinfestation - Chloro-bromination and ozone systems get the thumbs up!
Keeping pests out with screening
Controlling Botrytis (grey mould) in nurseries
A step-wise programme for practising IPM
Increasing efficiency in nursery dispatch
Chasing consistent disease suppression in potting media
Testing your potting media is being kind to your wallet
Benchmark study highlights labour and management shortfalls
Rid seeds of disease - give them a sauna!
Controlling downy mildew in nursery seedlings
Improving nitrogen management in woodwaste based potting mixes
Waterwork is working!
Reducing nutrient leaching from pots
Biological control of thrips, mites and other insects
Dynamic Pulse - a new method of propagating difficult cuttings
Year round production of Australian daisies as flowering pot plants
Using ultra violet radiation and chlorine dioxide to control fungal plant pathogens in water
Monitoring and managing recycled water quality in nurseries
Savings in nursery dispatch
Plants face the heat on the way to market
Let's Do Our Own Research - and make the most sense of it.
Grow Me Instead - How the nursery industry is addressing the spread of invasive plants
Insurance in the nursery & garden industry
Training, Careers & Employment in Horticulture
Plant health in Australia
Electronic Pest, Disease, Beneficial & Weed Identification Tool
Supply Chain Management holds the key to the viability of nusery enterprises
Plant Patents - An alternative for the Nursery Industry
The 2010 Nursery & Garden Industry State Young Leaders
In-field rapid, portable & cost-effective plant disease diagnostics
Mitigating Frost Damage in Nursery Production
The Basics of Plant Tissue Culture
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Provincial Plants and Landscapes - OFFICE MANAGER (02/05/13)
Provincial Plants and Landscapes - OPERATIONS MANAGER (24/04/13)

Positions Vacant - New South Wales (8)


Honeysuckle Garden Centre, Bondi Junction - RETAIL NURSERY MANAGERS & ASSISTANTS (05/06/13)
Honeysuckle Garden Centre, Mosman - RETAIL NURSERY MANAGERS & ASSISTANTS (05/06/13)
Farran Street Quality Childcare Centre - CASUAL HORTICULTURLALIST (04/06/13)
Mayfield Garden Nursery - SUPERVISORS OF RETAIL & PRODUCTION NURSERY - (08/05/13)
Greenlife Merchandising - MERCHANDISERS (02/05/12)
Colourwise Nursery - Assistant Nursery Manager (04/05/13)
Provincial Plants and Landscapes - OPERATIONS MANAGER - CANBERRA (24/04/13)
Andreasens Green - QUALIFIED HORTICULTURAL STAFF (02/04/13)

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Birdwood Nursery - PROPAGATION MANAGER (18/06/13)
Fortune-8 Nurseries Pty Ltd - EXPERIENCED PRODUCTION HORTICULTURIST(S) (20/05/13)

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Lewis Horticulture - HORTICULTURE SERVICES team members (24/04/13)

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Granton Plants - EXPERIENCED HORTICULTURIST (01/05/13)

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CNP scholarship offers students incentive for continuing development
Nursery & garden industry fights invasion
Nursery & Garden Industry Awards 2010
National Invasive Plants Survey - we need your assistance
Awards close soon - get your submissions in!
Nursery & Garden Industry develops pest, disease & weed identification tool
2010 Awards - submissions increased, unique Gala Dinner to come
Aussie Passion for Plants Continues to Bloom
Newspoll results have strong implications for Industry
Online national invasive plants questionnaire - where does your business stand?
NIASA nursery finalist in Savewater! awards
Huge advertising subsidy from Universal Magazines!
Dugine Native Plant Nursery wins best Small Business Award At the annual Savewater! awards®
Nursery & Garden Industry announces new President
NGIA staff visit Hortivations and Victorian Industry
New Biosecurity Section on NGIA website
Have you registered for the 2010 NGI National Conference yet?
Conference 2010 - a field day for growers!
Countdown to Darwin
Nursery & Garden Industry welcomes Federal Coalition’s commitment to urban forestry
Water concerns still strong in cities
Josh Byrne promotion good news for young retail nursery
What’s in it for retailers at NGI National Conference?
Growers - Grasp Your Opportunities in Darwin!
Countdown to Darwin
National Training Package – Latest News
Win the 'Cage of Death' experience!
New NextGen page
Latest Market Monitor now out
2010 NGI Awards - Winners Announced!
Issue Alert - Detection of Plant Pest
Councils halt cultivation of Agapanthus plants
Growers encouraged to pick up tools to navigate urban encroachment
Health and wellbeing in horticulture
Green claims – why the nursery industry can make them
NIASA Customer and Engagement Survey
Don't miss out on the Sydney Landscape Australia Expo!
Josh Byrne ‘Goes Green’
NGIA Crisis Management Hotline - Ph 1300 905 885
NIASA and EcoHort gain Smart Approved WaterMark status
International agreement signed by leading water efficiency organisations
Award winning nursery's secrets to sucess
NGIA proud sponsor of the national 2010 savewater! awards®
Green Roofs Australia Conference
Paul Kephart speaking at UNSW
What are you doing this National Tree Day?
NGIA is now on Facebook!
From Garden to table the way Mother Nature intended
NSW steps up campaign to take down Myrtle Rust
Nursery Traders- Revolutionising nursery industry green practice
Quarantine area declared for Myrtle Rust
Public Comment on Draft Australian Standard for composts, soil conditioners and mulches (AS 4454) due on 23/9/10
Birdwood Nursery Queensland - Shortlisted in the Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Awards
Members of NGIA Board reaffirmed at the 2010 Annual General Meeting
Congratulations to Darryl South & Teena Sandford on becoming NGIA Life Members!
Young Leader Development Program
Australian Nursery Industry Releases Myrtle Rust Management Plan 2011 Version 1.0
2011 Young Horticulturist of the Year
National Tree Day – Find Your Perfect Match
The new 2012 Young Leader Award and Young Leader Development Program
Anita Boucher Young Achiever's Award
Production Nursery – 2011 Biosecurity Farmer of the Year (Plant)
Nursery & Garden Industry Australia Supports ‘Designed Green Wall Systems’ PhD Scholarship
Potting Mix Analysis
Improve Your Plant Life Balance call for support
South Australian elected new NGIA President
Local Nursery has a Dream-time at water awards
Finalists announced for national 2011 savewater! awards®
NGIA have relocated and have new contact details
Nursery and Garden Industry Australia launches The Australian Nursery and Garden Industry's Policy Position on Quarantine and Biosecurity
Smart Approved WaterMark survey of the Australian Nursery Industry - Your Assistance Required!
Notice to Australia’s Plant Importers
Survey for Growers to address changes to Spray Drift Policy
Have your say on the development of the proposed Australian Standard for Specifying Trees
Australia’s nursery and garden industry supports National Urban Forest Alliance
Survey of Nursery Industry Attitudes to Urban Forest Management
World recognition for Australian nursery
Have your say on the proposed Biosecurity Eradication Levy
Nursery Trade Register now online
Updated release of NGIA Plant Labelling Guidelines
Funding Call for Nursery Industry preliminary R&D Proposals
National Young Leader Awarded