Australian Institute of Horticulture Inc. Promoting Horticulture - the Profession of the 21st Century #6/19 Botanica’s Plant of the Month, Hydrangea Miss Saori In this issue: AIH Student of the Year, Coralie Stuart interview Our regional convenors Botanica project of the month aih newsletter Coralie is an AIH graduate member, who recently won the AIH Student of the Year Award, at the recent 2019 Conference. She is interviewed here by Tempe Macgowan, AIH Editor Young member’s interview with Coralie Stuart. TM: How did you get into horticulture - what attracted you to it? I grew up gardening and was into design and art. What’s exciting about horticulture is that it grows and changes over time. You have a living design piece and you are constantly learning from your creativity; there are an infinite opportunities in the industry. TM: How do you think receiving the award will help you in the future? The award has already helped. But it all happened because I got a job with Patrick Regnault. He has the AIH logo on his website which indicates that he is part of something bigger and is interested in professional development. I met Patrick at a AIH workshop initially, then went to work for him.
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Australian Institute of Horticulture Inc.Promoting Horticulture - the Profession of the 21st Century
#6/19
Botanica’s Plant of the Month, Hydrangea Miss Saori
In this issue:AIH Student of the Year, Coralie Stuart interviewOur regional convenorsBotanica project of the month
aih newsletter
Coralie is an AIH graduate
member, who recently won
the AIH Student of the Year
Award, at the recent 2019
Conference.
She is interviewed here by
Tempe Macgowan, AIH Editor
Young member’s interview with Coralie Stuart.
TM: How did you get into horticulture - what attracted you to it?
I grew up gardening and was into design and art. What’s exciting about horticulture is that it grows and changes over time. You have a living design piece and you are constantly learning from your creativity; there are an infinite opportunities in the industry.TM: How do you think receiving the award will help you in the future?
The award has already helped. But it all happened because I got a job with Patrick Regnault. He has the AIH logo on his website which indicates that he is part of something bigger and is interested in professional development. I met Patrick at a AIH workshop initially, then went to work for him.
I haven’t been sure of what pathway to take in Landscape architecture. By going to the conference, where there were established industry representatives, I could see lots of opportunities that I didn’t realise were there.After leaving university in Melbourne it was hard to get work job security, a professional network and community are important to me is. At the conference, I could see how fluid the industry is and understand it better.TM: What are you interested in doing in the future?
I am especially interested in helping in the educational side of things, especially helping young people. Attending TAFE was uninspiring and you could teach, for example, how to propagate differently it could be inspiring. From my family background, and working with Patrick, I know that there are lots of different ways of teaching. In our family, we would have a cup of tea with our auntie and swap cuttings with each other. Or with Patrick you might do a workshop about it which also shows how AIH can be of help. Working in therapeutic design/aged care areas is another possible avenue in the future because of the human connection.TM: What are your views as a younger AIH member about climate change?
The climate change issue is such a big and complex an issue that so many people don’t do anything. You need to do something to help the planet in your own backyard. It’s like shifting grains of sand which add up rather than yelling at or pushing a rock; this big thing that is too daunting.
You can show people how to treat topsoil properly when you are doing their gardens by introducing them to worm farms. Thi is like the grain of sand which then all adds up. It puts the issue into perspective. We can all do our little bit to help the earth.TM: We spoke at the AIH conference about social media – can you talk
about how it works for you?
It all started with being accountable and posting on Instagram. Bisley Workwear approached me after seeing my posts. At the end of last year they asked me to do a line of workwear for woman. It can be quite dehumanising working for six years wearing men’s clothes – big polyester polo shirts made for twelve-year old boys isn’t the best feeling. If you can dress well it reflects on how you go about your work. Since then I have done a campaign shoot with the slogan, “hard work has no gender”. Its helped me get more connected with other women and the tradies lady club forum supergroup.
Member’s corner
- Sydney’s Green wall workshop, Central ParkOne Central Park is one of the most iconic and famous greenwall buildingsin Sydney, winning many coveted awards for its innovation and outstandingenvironmental achievements. Jock Gammon, the owner of Junglefy, thecompany responsible for the installation and ongoing maintenance of thisproject, was very gracious in giving his time so freely on the day.
The event held on Thursday 17th October, was an outstanding successwith over 30 people attending which included number of interstateparticipants from Canberra and Victoria attending.
Our members and guests were inspired by Jock as he explained themany complexities and obstacles that Junglefy encountered during theconstruction and installation period. We also learnt so much about the truevalue of green infrastructure in our cities; its amazing ability to reduce theeffects of pollution and increase the standard of our overall health.
We were also very lucky to be visit the UTS research facilities acrossfrom Central Park, on Broadway and spent the most fascinating time withresearch scientist, Dr Fraser Torpy .Dr Torpy is an amazing person whoreally opened our eyes to the true possibilities of greenwalls /infrastructure.We is leading the way globally with the research that they are doing in thisarea.
It was an outstanding day that I’m sure will be remembered by all whoattended. The AIH wishes to thank Jock and all the people at Junglefyevery success in there future endeavours.
Chris Poulton, FAIH, Registered horticulturist,
is the AIH Sydney
regional
Convenor and co-
ordinated this
impressive workshop.
- Northern RiversOn the 15th of October the AIH Northern Rivers had a 4 hours free workshop on introduction to school playground design.Using a real life brief the participants worked in group to design An educational and sensory place for children and teachers of a primary school. As the designed progress we talked of the legislative, safety, and environmental and budgetal constraints that direct design.
Having a small group was ideal to go through a vast amount of work in a short time. 75% of participants were students who were very keen to develop skills and understand real world design in this particular field.The ideas the participants came up with were extraordinary creative and the collaboration amongst and between the groups showed a true creative spirit had been unleashed.This workshop was a test run for a full day paid workshop which will take place in SE Qld in mid 2020.
- Central CoastThe group meets 6 times a year at Club Maitland City on a Thursday Night. The following have been completed1. April meeting Guest speaker Peggy Swoboda who spoke about the Kooragang wet lands and their Rehabilitation.2 June Meeting Danielle Lyod—Prichard who spoke on the Topic of managing Bees in the Garden.3. July walk and Talk at Noel Juppe’s Nursery Vacy .4, August meeting guest Speaker Steve Williams MAIH grade 5 Arborist.5,September Members again took part in the Annual Garden Ramble by having a display and answering general questions and Identification.6. October Walk and Talk at Tomago, which allowed those attending the opportunity to Shown through Tomago House by National Trust Deb Martello and then look over ground let by Steve Williams MAIH.Please note that our last event for this year will be our December Meeting and Xmas get together at Club Maitland City .I would like also to thank members of the group for their support.
Tom Lantry FAIH,
registered horticulturist
and convenor for the NSW
Hunter and
Central Coast gives
asummary of this year’s
NSW north coast convenor and new AIH Fellow, Patrick Regnault, FAIH, registered horticulturist, gives a summary of the recent playground workshop.
Botanica’s project of the month
- Elysium Terrigal, central coast, NSW.We are showcasing projects
where plants have been
supplied by our Gold
Sponsors, Botanica.
Chris Watson from Botanica
gives us this report on
the project that has been
landscaped by their client,
Descas Landscapes for
Central Real, a property
developer on the Central
Coast.
https://centralreal.com.au/
elysium/
This job was a quoted by us as a pre-grow in 2018 and was awarded earlier this year. It was valued at nearly half a million dollars. The majority of stock was grown by at Silverdale to order, although the larger palm trees were sourced in from another supplier and delivered direct to site.
The Landscape design was created by ARCADIA Landscape architecture. It wasn’t modified except to be downsized in some areas to make it more horticulturally sound, good value for money and be grown within the scheduled time frame provided. Much of the supply was over the winter months, making it a challenge to supply fresh-looking tropical plant stock. Most plants have managed to survive the blistering wind of the coast and cold Winter months to start thriving in the landscape.
Descas Landscapes have shown a very professional approach to the job to deliver exactly what the client has wanted. They have also been given the contract to maintain this project for a year after completion.
Upcoming events
Wayne van Balen, MAIH,
compiles the monthly events
calendar. Wayne was awarded
the prestigious, SILVER GUM
AWARD at the 2019 AIH
conference.
Please Note: New Workshops for ACT and Southern Highlands are to be announced in the near future. We are also working on reinvigorat-ing activities in South Australia. Western Australia are focused on the wonderful conference programme coming up in September, then work-shops going forward will be planned. Regional Convener Patrick Reg-nault has been convening workshops in the NSW Northern Rivers and Qld Gold Coast with the assistance of John Mason. We are passionate to create a great programme for Brisbane/Sunshine Coast over the next 12 months and believe that a new group on the Mid North Coast (Taree/Port Macquarie) will be viable.
We are looking for members/affiliated groups to contribute to the AIH Newsletter and Journal. All contributions are welcome. Please send to the AIH Editor/Communications Manager, [email protected]. Thank you.
Botanica’s plant of the month
44 SPRINT HORTICULTURE FLOWERING CATALOGUE 2019
20 cm
Miss SaoriTM
WINNER OF CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW 2014
A stunning and unique bicolour of deep rose margins which soften to white centres.
The blooms are set upon an eye-catching burgundy tinted foliage, which darkens
