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Horticultural Media Associations
Garden Writers
Association of America (GWAA)
The Garden Writers Association of America (GWAA) is an organization of over 1800
professional communicators in the lawn and garden industry.
GWAA is the non-profit association which provides leadership and opportunities
for education, recognition, career development, and a forum for diverse
interactions for professionals in the field of garden communication.
Garden Media Guild (UK)
The Garden Media Guild (previously the Garden Writers Guild) was set up in 1991 to bring
together all the garden writers, photographers, broadcasters and allied trades.
Its aims are to raise the quality of garden writing and broadcasting, and keep
members up-to-date with what's going on in the world of gardening and
horticulture.
American
Society of Botanical Artists
This society is dedicated to promoting public awareness of botanical art and
encouraging its development.
Gardening
Media Resources
The Australian Copyright Council
The online
information centre of the Australian Copyright Council - an independent
non-profit organisation.
Includes lots of downloadable information sheets.
Bulb.Com
This is the site for the US press office of the Dutch flower bulb industry.
It is designed as a working tool for the press and an "evolving encyclopaedia"
of flower bulb related information. The "Journalists only" area has
free-of-charge and copyright-free information and images for use by journalists.
Plant
Breeder's Rights
A government web page which explains the concept of plant breeders' rights.
Garden
Writers List
Penny Woodward
has recommended this forum. Penny says "It is basically American in origin
and was started by a member of the GWAA as a forum for Garden Writers and other
people involved in horticulture. It has covered some really interesting areas
including photography (slides, what sort of film, digital, the future etc),
contracts, pay rates, obligations of editors and lots of other general
information. There are lots of different writers, publishers and suppliers who
already belong to the list and are willing to share their expertise. I have
already obtained their help with a couple of subjects and found their
suggestions very useful. Although it is at present very USA oriented, much of
what they
discuss is also relevant to Australians in the field."
There is no fee or obligation. (Note: This list transferred to a new provider in
late 2002 and the relevant link also changed).
Horticultural
Organisations
Nursery
& Garden Industry Australia
This site has a good range of useful links.
Nursery
& Garden Industry NSW & ACT Limited
Sustainable
Gardening Australia
Australian Institute of Horticulture
Weed
Information Links (prepared by Kate Blood)
National weed lists
A national list of garden thugs is available at richardson@weedinfo.com.au
or the more up-to-date version from the original author, Rod Randall, at rprandall@agric.wa.gov.au
The list of 20 Weeds of National Significance is available at
www.weeds.org.au
The 28 National Alert List of Environmental Weeds is available
on
www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/invasive/weeds/alert-list.html
To know if a plant is prohibited or permitted entry into
Australia, interrogate the Australian Quarantine and Inspection import condition
database (ICON) at www.aqis.gov.au/icon
State/Territory and local weed lists and contacts
To make contact with State/Territory government
agencies, go through the national Weedbuster website at www.weedbusters.info.au.
You can also become involved in Weedbuster Week in October each year or prepare
media material to coincide with the national event. This site also has a fact
sheet for gardeners about garden thugs.
Many State and local government agencies produce weed lists
including garden escapees. Check with your local government. Each
State/Territory has a declared or noxious weed list. These are available through
www.weeds.org.au
but check with each State/Territory government individually for recent updates.
The list of noxious weeds in Victoria is
available as a Landcare Note from the Victorian Department of Primary Industries
web site: www.dpi.vic.gov.au
. Landcare Notes for a range of weeds in Victoria are available at this site.
To see which plants have been recorded as
naturalised (become invasive) in Victoria, search the Royal Botanic Gardens
Melbourne census of vascular plants of Victoria database at www.rbg.vic.gov.au/biodiversity/database/viclist/
You can see where some garden plants are invading in Australia
by searching Australia's Virtual Herbarium on-line at www.chah.gov.au/avh/
but be aware that weed records in herbaria are quite poorly represented so the
weeds may be a lot more widespread than the maps indicate.
Weeds in the nursery and garden industry
The Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Weed Management
(Weeds CRC) has many information resources at www.weeds.crc.org.au
A number of Nursery Papers have been produced by the Nursery
and Garden Industry of Australia and are available at www.ngia.com.au
Other Useful Links
The
Australian Society of Authors
The Australian Society of Authors is a non-profit organisation formed to
"protect and promote the professional interests of Australia's literary
creators".
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