Proceedings Library

Why Horticultural Lighting?  What is the primary focus?
1. Extend the growing season
2. Promote healthy plant growth 
3. Increase yields

About the author: Anthon Human
Anthon is the head of R&D and Horticulture at Energywise Systems. For the past decade, Energywise has specialised in the design and manufacture of LED luminaires for Commercial, Industrial, EX and Horticultural use. The company is also home to one of South Africa's few dedicated photometric laboratories which Anthon also oversees.

As a mechanical engineer who practices Industrial Design, Anthon is a man driven by innovation. From conceptualisation to prototyping to the final product, Anthon is hands-on all the way. Born and bred in Durban has ensured a life subscribing to the local ethos of outdoor passions and never escaping a chance for an adrenaline spike or a smile.

Biologicals in Growing
Biological Control is the control of pest or disease by the introduction of a natural enemy or predator, in its new habitat.

About the author: Mark Hutton
Mark is based in Hilton and is an Andermatt Madumbi BioSpecialist for Commercial Agriculture in KZN and the technical biospeicialist in the Garden to Greenhouse division nationally.

Mark has more than 20 years’ experience in agriculture and has a vast knowledge and understanding on a wide range of crops. Mark also has extensive knowledge on vegetable and nursery crop production systems. Mark is passionate about shifting mindsets and getting farmers and growers to understand the importance of Biologicals and Biorational solutions in a growing program.

Mark's ultimate passion lies in soil and root health. His holistic approach to healthy, nutritious food production starts (and ends) underground. He has completed the Soil Food Web course and has attended and participated in selected climate change conferences and Soil and Root Health discussions and presentations.

Mark lives with his wife, Sue on a small farm outside Merrivale. They have four children, a large vegetable garden and a couple of hundred macadamia trees of their own.

Optimising germination of Asteraceae annuals from the winter-rainfall region of South Africa: A review
Content
•   Value of annuals
•   Asteraceae-family
•   Propagation-challenges
•   Winter-rainfall
•   Life-forms of the Cape Flora
•   Fruit polymorphism
•   Temperature, light & other pre-germination treatments

About the author:  Roger Oliver
Roger Oliver has more than 22 years of professional experience working with plants. Before his professional career, Roger as a child, enjoyed exploring the fynbos vegetation of the Overberg growing in the mountains or down by the sea. He spent time gardening as a kid, having fun while helping grandpa. He attended high school in monotonous Caledon. Gardening, be it maintaining his aunt’s garden patch or simply just assessing other people’s efforts in the neighborhood, was a welcome relief.

He ended up studying Horticulture (N. Diploma and B. Tech) through UNISA and obtained his Master of Horticulture degree through the CPUT. Roger worked at Harold Porter NBG as a student and as an intern at Kirstenbosch NBG before moving to Pretoria NBG where he became the nursery manager.

After a while, the fynbos came beckoning and he is now back at Kirstenbosch, and has been for the past 12 years. During this time, an internship at Ball Horticulture in Illinois and two trips to the Chelsea Flower Show have also proven to be quite nutritious to his horticultural soul. Roger is currently responsible for the curation, production, maintenance/display of the Annuals, Geraniaceae (non-display), Rutaceae (Cape Buchu) and Freylinia Living Collections. Seed germination ecology of annuals and fire-ecology in fynbos are his main interests now.

Gardens by the Bay - Bay South - Singapore

Presentation Outline:
•   City in a Garden
•   Value Proposition of GB
•   Planning & Design Strategies • Design Elements
•   Photo Journey

About the author:   Christohper Dalzell
Chris was born in Durban and matriculated at Thomas More School in Kloof in 1979. After 2 years in the army Chris headed overseas for a year to work as a caddy for Tony Johnstone on the European tour. Chris had ambitions to be a professional golfer but after a year on the tour decided to study horticulture and specialize in turf and build golf courses. But once he qualified in 1988 he won a scholarship to study and the world famous Botanic Garden in Pennsylvannia, USA called Longwood Gardens where his love of Botanic Gardens began. On returning to SA Chris took up a position at the Durban Botanic Gardens in 1990 in charge of special collections. Over the next 20 years Chris travelled extensively both locally and internationally in pursue in turning Durban Botanic Gardens into a world class garden. These included:

• Started the Friends of the Durban Botanic Gardens in 1994. Raised over R40 million for projects in the gardens.
• Started the popular Music at the Lake concerts and secured funding from large banks and businesses with all funds raised after expenses used to improve facilities at the gardens. This included the building of the Visitors Centre at the gardens.
• Travelled to over 78 countries to raise funds and collect plants with over 6000 new plants collected for the gardens.
• Started the African Botanic Gardens Network which linked all Botanic Gardens in Africa under one umbrella organization and assisted raise funds to start 3 new gardens in Africa. Hosted the first African Botanic Garden Network Conference in 2002.
• Visited over 300 Botanic Gardens and lectured extensively all over the world. Wrote articles for newspapers and horticultural magazines.
• Exhibited 3 times at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show and won 2 Silver Gilts and 1 Gold Medal.
• Hosted and World Botanic Gardens Education Conference in 2009

In 2010 Chris left the gardens after 27 years with the City Council to take up a new position in Singapore as Assistant Director of Gardens development in the building of the new 54 Ha $1 Billion Botanic Gardens called Gardens by the Bay. Over the next 2 years Chris travelled extensively to collect plants for this new garden which included trips to the USA, Mexico, Ecuador, Australia, South Africa, Thailand, Bali and throughout Indonesia. Once the gardens opened in June 2012 Chris returned to South Africa and now runs his own landscape consulting business and is involved with projects all over the world. Presently Chris is landscaping a new Game Lodge in Babanango and In Manyoni. Chris leads Botanical tours both locally to Namaqualand and internationally to visit gardens in the UK including the Chelsea Flower Show, Singapore and Thailand and gardens of the USA. Chris is the Chairman of The Kloof Project, a nonprofit organization that landscape and maintains the gardens in the CBD of Kloof.

Gardens by the Bay - Bay South - Singapore - part 2

Gardens by the Bay - Bay South - Singapore - part 3

Dealing with plant health issues in the nursery environment
Reducing the risk of pests entering and becoming established in your nursery
•.  biosecurity
•   best practice and why it matters

About the author: Dr Trudy Paap
FABI (Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute), University of Pretoria

Dr Trudy Paap is a plant pathologist and mycologist. She has more than 20 years of experience investigating plant health issues caused by pests and pathogens, in Australia and South Africa. Her research has focused on the impact of native and invasive pests and pathogens on natural ecosystems and planted forests, as well as urban trees. Her work examines the role of biotic and abiotic stressors such as anthropogenic disturbance in the establishment of invasive pests, as well as their role in driving the emergence of disease outbreaks by native pathogens. She has extensive experience in surveillance and detection of new and emerging pests and pathogens, through her involvement in programmes such as the International Plant Sentinel Network (IPSN).

PhD from Murdoch University, Perth, Australia (2007)

Everything you need to know about plant health and why it matters more than ever

About the author: Dr Ida Wilson

Plant pathology (PhD.)    Specialist: Plant health management

Ida Wilson is a specialist consultant in plant production, with a special interest in plant health. She obtained her MSc in Microbiology cum laude from the University of the Free State and her PhD in plant pathology from the University of Pretoria. Her knowledge and experience in plant health stem from 20 years of industry-related agricultural research. Her work spans scientific studies in laboratories, greenhouses, tunnels, open fields, orchards, packinghouses and in the supply chain. She sees herself as a problem-solver with specific strengths in innovation over disciplines. She is keen on technology transfer and is adamant that research outcomes should directly benefit those in the plant production industries. She has given more than 120 seminars and talks in plant science to national and international audiences and authored more than 200 works, most of which have a direct impact on the industry, including chapters in technical guides to farmers. She enjoys participation in farmers’ study groups and information days and has developed and facilitated full-day workshops on plant disease management for industry role players. She has a national and international footprint in plant science, and an undying passion to serve plant production industries, which remain a backbone of society and economic upliftment. The crops she has worked on include apples, pears, citrus, plums, nectarines, peaches, grapes, blueberries, wheat, barley, oats, triticale, fodder crops, gooseberries and cowpeas. She strives to empower role-players in plant production with holistic plant health solutions from a unique perspective that makes sense in the real-world environment.

The Kwelera National Botanical Garden was declared in 2014 and officially opened by the Department of
Environmental Affairs Minister in August 2015.

The Botanical Garden is officially classified as a conservation garden, promoting biodiversity education to locals
and attracting tourists to the region.

The Kwelera National Botanical Garden is currently being developed and not yet open to the public

My Horticultural Journey with IPPS

Eat, Pray, Wear Gloves:

One Woman’s Horticultural Journey from Australia to the Holy Land and the Eastern Mediterranean.

About the Author: Stephanie Hastie

IPPS Australia exchange student
Lecturer: Ironwood institute for Horticulture and Agriculture, Adelaide Australia

After earning my Certificate III in Horticulture from TAFESA in 2018, I entered the horticultural world to explore my passion for all things plants. Horticulture was a significant career change for me after working as a lawyer.I’m Adelaide based, however my career has taken me all over the world fromJerusalem, Greece and, now, South Africa. I’ve spent a year as a scholar at theJerusalem Botanic Gardens, assisting in the curation department, the nursery,and with their rare seed collection. Whilst I was living in the Eastern Mediterranean I was fortunate to be able to volunteer for a short time at the Mediterranean Garden Society in Sparoza, Greece, and work alongside the late Sally Razelou. Closer to home, I’ve worked in several private gardens, as well as at a large-scale propagation nursery propagating native Australian plants.Currently, I work as a lecturer for TAFESA, where my predominant focus is teaching an introductory course on plant botany, physiology and cultural requirements.