The Sap Flow Experiments: Reading What Trees Are Actually Doing
Dendrometers and sap flow sensors on commercial trees with a global technology partner: irrigation by evidence, and transplant monitoring weeks ahead of visible symptoms.
Knowledge Archive
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The Rural Solutions Collaboration: When a Government Agency Came Knocking
A South Australian government agency's proposal to take its arid-flora expertise to a UAE zoo and landscaping project through the team's international delivery capability.
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From Little Things: Barbara McGeoch and Three Decades of Plant Export
Barbara McGeoch's APEC keynote in Lima on building a horticultural export business, and a career recognised by Australia's export Heroes Award and FCEM Entrepreneur of the Year.
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Emaho Trees: An Australian Farm for Advanced Trees
The Queensland farm growing advanced trees in the ground: field-grown maturity, an export registered establishment licence, and the first B Corp certification in Australasian horticulture.
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The Advanced Tree Stock Book: Proof in Rows
A bound book of field-grown advanced trees photographed in production with partner Emaho Trees: the simplest document in the archive and one of the most persuasive.
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Exporting a Standard: Australian Nursery Practice Goes to the Gulf
Saudi Arabia's first nursery accreditation program adapts Australia's NIASA best practice: measurable irrigation standards, named root pathogens, and graded stock specifications.
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The Seasonal Flowering Guides: A Year of Colour, Planned
Companion spring/summer and autumn/winter planting guides that together form a complete flowering calendar, with winter anchors most palettes are missing.
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South Australian Native Plants: A Regional Flora Worth Exporting
A photographic reference to the flora of Australia's driest state, and why species proven there travel so well to the world's arid project climates.
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The Ex-Ground Field Guide: Handwritten Rules of Tree Lifting
Annotated field photographs from the team's tree-lifting operations, including the one handwritten rule that prevents more losses than any other: cross the sling under the root ball.
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The Original Company Profile: Where Ornatec Began
The 1990s spiral-bound profile that defined the company: horticultural consultants embedding technical judgement inside landscape projects. The idea has scaled; it has not changed.
