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Environmentally Certified Landscape Industry Professionals (ECLIPs)

SGA runs a well-established environmental certification program for garden centres that includes an external audit process. In 2007, SGA received funding from the Victorian Government’s Sustainability Fund to establish a similar certification program for landscape professionals. SGA has worked closely with the Landscape Industries Association of Victoria (LIAV) and other industry professionals on [...]

Hi, my name is: Citrus Leafminer

Describe yourself: I’m the tiny larvae of a beautiful silver moth, and am very rarely seen. That said, you can sure see my silvery trail of destruction, as I leave my squiggly tunnels all over the leaves of your favourite citrus trees!

Hobbies: Mama moth loves laying eggs on your fab citrus foliage, and [...]

Stripping in the Suburbs - Nature Strip Plantings

Funny thing about houses (and I should know, I’ve lived in quite a few) is that in every single one there is an area (or areas) that could best be described as “a waste of space”. Weird corners that no side table can fit into, funny skinny hallways unsuitable for anything other than skating [...]

Companion Planting

Everybody Needs Good Neighbors

Once the realm of the hardcore, hippy, home gardener, companion planting is now an incredibly popular practice – from beginner gardeners right up to large-scale agriculture. But, despite its popularity (it’s huge in Europe), companion planting is often misunderstood, misused and misrepresented as the “cure-all solution” to problems in the patch.

So what [...]