Editorial

Welcome to the first issue of Hort Journal 2025. I hope you all managed some downtime, although this is not always a reality for business owners, as plants don’t take a day off.

Once again, bushfires dominate the news in Australia and the USA.… Continue reading

And just like that, it is December, often referred to as the silly season as so many try to squeeze a myriad of things in before Christmas Day. Landscapers are stressed as every client wants their projects completed for the big day, retail garden centres are run off their feet with last-minute shoppers, and we usually have many events to attend for those end-of-year celebrations.… Continue reading

I know spring is well underway when I see little visitors scuttling around my office despite my best efforts to discourage this activity. I was not surprised when reading research by Johnalyn Gordon and others, published in the Journal of Economic Entomology, describing cockroach resistance to pyrethrum-based surface sprays.… Continue reading