Hills Horticultural Services in Lismore, New South Wales | Nursery

Hills Horticultural Services

Locality: Lismore, New South Wales

Address: Dunoon 2480 Lismore, NSW, Australia

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24.01.2022 Did you know? These macadamia nuts all have the aborted embryo dimple that is a characteristic of the H2 variety.

22.01.2022 Here you can see macadamia lace bug nymphs and shed skins on developing flower racemes. The ingredients for complete crop loss if left to play it course.

20.01.2022 Macadamia topworking maintenance - removing suckers on a H2 stump with G cultivar starting to establish

19.01.2022 Coppicing 3 year old cinnamon trees for the first time.

18.01.2022 Air layered lychee trees now available for a limited time. $30 ea

17.01.2022 849 rind graft onto a stumped H2. Only 1 graft was successful and we put multiple scions on each topworked tree for this reason.

16.01.2022 When fruit spotting bug feed using their long mouthparts, they exude saliva containing enzymes that break down the cells of green fruit such as in the mango pictured. The adults are highly mobile making them a major pest in many fruit crops.

14.01.2022 Maiden’s Wattle soaks up some sunshine

14.01.2022 Sharwil avocado planted 9 months ago as a source of budwood for the nursery.

12.01.2022 Neither friend nor foe: Leucocoprinus birnbaumii, the plantpot dapplerling, aka the potting mix fungus, is a warm climate fungus. This saprophyte digests bark-b...ased potting mixes, its reproductive fruiting bodies often disappearing within a day. Potting mixes in Australia usually carry its spores. Toxic if eaten in large quantities, so don't. See: https://www.mushroomexpert.com/leucocoprinus_birnbaumii.html

11.01.2022 This season we experimented with using half a Reed avocado seed sown directly in bags. The result was a slightly less vigorous seedling initially but we are still able to graft them after 5 months

10.01.2022 A few photos of what’s happening around the nursery this month.

10.01.2022 Indian sandalwood is a hemiparasitic tree that grows on the roots of legumes. Here it is planted next to a Brisbane wattle which it extracts nutrients from.

09.01.2022 Well yes it is dry but the frangipanis don’t mind. This is Hawaiian sunset and Darwin red grafted on one tree.

09.01.2022 We have some 849 Grafted macadamia trees for sale. Message for price and availability!

07.01.2022 A tip on looking out for trunk canker on young macadamia trees.

03.01.2022 Last year I identified Red Bopple Nut (Hicksbeachia pinnatifolia) as a host species for Macadamia lace bug. It is proving to be a useful monitoring tool coming into flowering time.

03.01.2022 Pink Diamond dragonfruit. They are small in size but big in flavour. So yummy for breakfast.

02.01.2022 High organic matter levels in macadamia orchard pays off during dry times!

02.01.2022 For anyone that asked about grafted avocado trees but didn’t place an order, we have limited stock available now. Get in quick!

02.01.2022 Another host plant of Macadamia lace bug - Helicia glabriflora.

01.01.2022 Terminal pieces of budwood work best when grafting avocadoes.