EVENT: AHT2023
Australian Horticultural Trials Week 2023 During the first week of December, NGIV and Australia’s top breeders, growers, and allied businesses came together for Australian Horticultural Trials Week, presented by The Garden Gurus. The week was once again an opportunity to discover exciting new product lines, visit some of Australia’s finest propagators and growers and to enjoy networking with industry colleagues from all over the country and overseas. With 2023 building on the successes of previous years to be the best Trials Week yet, there were plenty of exciting stories from the week. The Garden Gurus The Garden Gurus is Australia’s longest-running gardening television show on commercial-free-to-air TV. Last year marked their 21st on Channel 9, and recently, they have signed an agreement until the end of 2024. This commitment will result in time having produced 37 series, 600+ episodes, and 4800 stories. The Garden Gurus reaches over 500,000 people per episode in Australia and is telecast in 86 countries in seven languages. They will pass 70 million fact sheet downloads this year. The Garden Gurus’ Trevor Cochrane says, “Innovation is the key to our future as an industry, and we will play a very important role moving forward in the conservation and
sustainability sectors. The Garden Gurus is an important mouthpiece to help tell those stories to a massive audience. “From March until the end of July 2024, 24 stories will feature in the TV series, telling the story of the industry’s innovative approach to superior genetics and we will drive consumers to seek out new release plants in their favourite garden centres. “The Garden Gurus is dedicated to promoting the garden industry and wishes to thank the industry for its tremendous support of the series since it launched in February 2002.” The Garden Gurus are proud to support NGIV with the naming sponsorship of the Australian Horticultural Trails Week and look forward to continuing to support the trials into the future.
Representatives from Trials Week Exhibitors with event MC, Heath McKenzie. L–R: Greg Carrick (GCP), Adrian Parsons (Helix), Heath McKenzie, Jordan Haar (Haars Nursery), John Walsh (ICL), Will McIntosh (Mansfield's Propagation Nursery), Simon Miot (Transplant Systems) and Paul Boland (Ball Australia).
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