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Commercial Horticulture Magazine: New Zealand's Nursery Industry Magazine
Nursery Registers: directories of the nursery and related industries of New Zealand and Australia
Organisers of Trade Days - nursery industry trade shows in Auckland and Christchurch
Manufacturers and distributors of the Signs Please range of POS sign holders for retailers
NZ distributors of the Hollow Log range of garden ornaments and collectables.
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Reach your market through Comm Hort

Regular advertising in Commercial Horticulture Magazine will maintain your profile and take your message deep into the NZ garden industry – nurseries, retailers, the landscape and amenity sectors.

Limited budget? Why not try just a Classified Ad in the magazine’s Marketplace section – prices start from as low as $20 and as an added bonus your ad will also appear under the Marketplace section of this website.

Deadline for Ad bookings for next issue (June-July) is May 25.

We can help you with creating your ads. Please phone (09) 358-2749 for assistance.


More than 50 stands now booked for
Auckland Spring Trade Day

Auckland Spring Trade Day will be held on 7-8 August this year at the ASB Showgrounds in Epsom and stand bookings are well under way.

With the cancelling of the Auckland Autumn Trade Day earlier this year, the Spring event is bound to be bigger and better than ever, so make sure you secure a spot.

Click here for the Venue Plan and Booking Form.

If You Would Like to Visit Trade Day . . .

If you’d like to come along as a VISITOR to our Trade Days, you are most welcome if you are in or associated with any aspect of the garden trade – nursery, retail, landscape, amenity, supplier, service co, etc. The shows are not open to the general public. Admission is free.. For reports on previous shows, click here.


NZ Nursery Register 2011/12

The 2011/12 edition of the NZ Register is available. At just under 300 pages, it carries a mass of detailed information about companies and people in or associated with the garden industry in NZ. The data has been totally updated since the previous edition. Price is $75.90 incl GST and delivery within NZ.

You can order the NZ Register on this site (click here for options) or please phone 09 358 2749.

The Register is a fantastic place to advertise to reach the NZ garden industry. Many buyers make their copies last two or more years and the Register’s penetration is as high as 86% into some sectors. We’ll be updating listings and booking ads for this year’s edition in June.

Australian Nursery Registers

Four regional Nursery Registers are available for Australia. Latest editions are:
   NSW/ACT, June 2010, 170 pages, 4000+ companies
   VIC/TAS/SA, September 2010, 180 pages, 4500+ companies
   QLD, November 2011, 102 pages, 2500 companies.
   WA, December 2009, 62 pages, 1500 companies.

These Registers carry extensive detail about nurseries (what they grow, grades etc), garden retailers, supply and service companies. There are phones, faxes, emails and contact names – a great resource if you’re dealing in any way with the garden trade in Australia. 

 You can order the Australian Registers on this site or please phone (09) 358-2749.

New editions of all Registers will be published during 2012
Advertising space is available – so if you’re targeting the trade in Australia the Registers are a great place to advertise because your message reaches people at the very moment they’re making a purchasing decision, or constantly as they fan through the book looking for a contact name or phone numbers.

We’re currently updating the WA and NSW/ACT editions. The others will be updated later in the year. Phone us at (09) 358-2749 for more details.

Christchurch Autumn Nursery Trade Day 2012

Christchurch Trade Day was held over two part days in March, coinciding with the first two days of the Ellerslie Flower Show.

Trade Day opened from 5pm to 7.30pm on Wednesday 7th and again the next day from 9am until 2pm. This timetable worked a treat and made for a very relaxed and sociable event with plenty of opportunities for networking.

The venue itself – the Canterbury Horticultural Society’s Hall in Hagley Park -- is certainly proving its worth as a good one for such a show, its size and design providing an ambience and general buzz that is missing from many trade shows in bigger venues.

The timing also allowed for both visitors and exhibitors to take in Ellerslie and Trade Day in the same trip.

Numbers of both exhibitors and visitors were down this year but that was to be expected what with the economic downturn and the fact that Christchurch, having lost around half of its available accommodation from the earthquakes, had been fully booked out months before March.

However, the quality, both of what was on display and of the visitors coming through, was apparent and feedback in general was that people were happy with what they did and saw.

Comm Hort now available as an e-magazine
Commercial Horticulture Magazine is now available in electronic format as an e-magazine. Click here to see a sample.

Price is just $35+GST for an annual subscription (6 issues).  Subscribers can print colour copies of all or parts of the magazine if they wish.

Overseas: We can deliver Comm Hort e-magazine anywhere in the world for just NZ $35 per year (6 issues) – a good gift idea for friend or colleagues overseas perhaps?

To subscribe, please click here. If you would like to pay for the subscription but have the magazine sent to someone else, just enter your details in the Billing Address and the recipient’s details in the Shipping Address as you move through the checkout.