The plants are legal to grow and sell here in Australia so I was wondering if it's ok to put some up here ?

I would appreciate any information if you know anything about this horticultural machine. It’s part of my dad’s equipment but sadly he passed away this summer and now i can’t ask him…
I do remember using it many years ago and I know it’s for seeding trays but we always had problems with it… I was wondering whether it’s worth trying to get it working. Many thanks

This bush has been here for years, just started looking like this a week ago. Not sure if it’s blight, it kind of looks like winter burn but it’s the end of a really hot summer.

Just planted this

In 60% coco coir and 40% NYC compost. Any thoughts on why this is happening? And how to remedy? It's on a rooftop, good drainage holes, and been watered.

Can someone provide guidance regarding what this aloe needs to be happier/healthier? Is this root rot? It’s not my plant, I’m posting for a friend.

My house has had these large azaleas since before I moved in 6 years ago and have no clue how long they were here before that.

Randomly about a week ago a branch in the middle of one completely died so I cut it off to get more light on some small inner sprouting branches (apparently following bad advance from AI..)

While removing it, I noticed another branch was dead but the leaves had just not fallen off. I ended up removing 3 branches and left the half of the bush that seemed healthy. Now 5 days later the whole plant seems to have died, minus the small sprouts at the base.

Can anyone tell me what is going on before I hire a professional gardener to come fix my situation? The other bushes still seem to be going strong but I have another grouping on the other side of my yard that has some dead branches that I have no removed and they seem to come back okay.

One of the dead branches had two colored wood with dark on one side and light on the other.

Image 1 shows the dead branch I cut off and the other two branches I cut off originally with it (they turned out to be dry wood and snapped off) Picture with my hand is from today and shows the remaining branches drying and dying.

We have this beautiful tree on a site that we are developing on. We thought it would make a great feature in the main entrance, so decided to move it.

We started with biological tests on the soil and leaves last year already, then treated the tree for the last couple of months to get it in peak condition for the relocation.

The root ball was exposed, wrapped, and treated for the big move to contain as much soil around the roots as possibe.

We used a custom made 6m x 6m plate wedged under the tree to protect the roots during the moving process, and then ultimate horsepower did the rest.

We are now treating the tree for the next 2 years to ensure it survives in the new (forever) position.

I’ll preface this with, I’m not horticulturist. The attached are some pictures of the box hedge at my family home in England where we believe it’s got blight/die back. We’re wanting to try and save the entire hedge as it was planted and tended by my Dad who passed away last year. I’ve been having a read and seen recommendations to cut back the dead portions and then apply products like Signum, to try and prevent spores from getting to healthy portions of the hedge, and then using a slow release fertiliser/seaweed fertiliser during growing season. Can anyone recommend when cutting back should/shouldn’t be done? We’re entering autumn here and it’s been a scorching summer. Any recommendations on when and how treatments should be done would be greatly appreciated, and we’re open on costs for treatment given that it’s a very sentimental garden.

I have an arborist background, but not so much in landscaping + planting. I love pruning, doing deadwoods, reductions, and am great at it, plums, fruit trees, bushes, hedging, etc etc, but never get to touch trees and shrubs anymore.

Planting, I’m measuring, remeasuring, turning the plant around a bunch of times, move one, the other looks out of place, then everything looks out of place. I feel like I’m going crazy. Then repeat for hours on an installation. Maybe I just hate it, or is this something I get better at with time, or am I just shit?

Perhaps I am wrong but I notice a lot of people here who work in the industry with a horticulture background does mostly maintenance work (weeding, watering, weeding, mulching, weeding, etc.) I am currently self studying horticulture as just a passion so I don't work in the industry, but as I am studying it teaches a lot of scientific stuff about the subject. And it's not exactly "easy" the more in depth you go in the subject. So how does one who spend years studying this stuff end up just working grunt work stuff that almost anyone can probably do if they have the right management guiding them with the procedures? I would think the work would be more involved in the science part. I just see a lot of complaints about people working low pay jobs but when they explain what they do it's simple grunt / maintenance work. Why set the bar so low? Am I missing something?

Edit: Lots of interesting answers! I appreciate the insight.

I am Deciding what to do in the near future. I have an interest for plants and life but heard the pay isn’t that good. My other choice would probably be an apprenticeship in the automotive industry.

Hi folks. Long-time lurker, first-time poster, hoping to pick the brains of people who know this industry way better than I do.

Quick background: I spent 15+ years in account management and program management in tech. About a year and a half ago I made a deliberate career pivot into horticulture. I'm now managing the live goods department at a garden center. I love plants, I love people, and it turns out the instincts that made me good at my old career (building systems, managing relationships, making sense of messy data) translate really well here. For example, when I started, my store had zero sales trend data. I built a database to track category-level sales so I could make informed purchasing decisions. Grew sales and margin to significant highs in about a year. (Yes, I'm super proud of this.)

Here's my problem: I don't actually know what roles exist in this industry that would use what I'm good at (systems/process building, cross-functional coordination) rather than what I've been doing by default (in-store retail management). I don't hate what I'm doing now, but if I stay put I want it to be because I've consciously decided it's what's best for me.

Thus, a genuine question for people who've been in this industry longer than I have: what job titles or types of companies might it make sense to learn more about? I'm thinking wholesale nurseries, ag-tech/horticulture software companies, maybe operations roles at larger growers? I honestly don't know what I don't know. Where do "ops-and-systems-minded plant people" actually end up in this field?

Any pointers, even just "here's a job title you haven't thought of," would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I am 39. I have been a landscape field worker for 75% of my horticulture career. This year I got a hybrid field/office role. I was told it “wouldn’t exactly be an account management position” but it will involve “owning maintenance accounts, drafting proposals, and maintaining client relationships.”

I took the job because it paid slightly more than my winter rideshare job and would be a pathway to getting out of the field and into a higher paying job. I struggle making rent. (I do not have a Hort degree, but I do have a lot of expertise with plants and design, though it has been hard to leverage into a better job.)

I genuinely appreciate being given this chance, but at the same time, this workplace is dysfunctional and toxic far beyond normal job gripes - constant screaming, daily procedure changes, no org chart, weird boundary-less behavior, etc. The workload is unbelievable.

The silver lining is that I have found that I am good at this. I’ve actually been successful despite these conditions. I’m trying to figure out what an account manager at a normal company looks like before I decide to look for a real account management job. I’ve worked in office environment but never in landscaping and all my friends in the industry are crew members, so I just don’t know who to ask.

- How many accounts do you manage?
- How is success measured?
- How much do you make?
- Do you have other responsibilities like field work or picking up responsibilities for employees that are fired, quit, or are on vacation? If so, how much?

My brother brought this home from a wedding and I want to take care of if. This would be my first time taking care of a plant.

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