Working as a landscape architect, urban designer and horticultural consultant, based in Brisbane, Arno’s industry experience includes working in retail and wholesale nurseries, in landscape construction and in landscape design. He has developed horticultural curricula and taught horticulture and landscape design subjects at TAFE, Queensland University of Technology and currently takes occasional Subtropical Garden Classes at the Roma Street Gardens. He has also been a guest speaker at a number of local and international seminars and conferences.

Arno is a keen gardener and is currently developing a 10 acre property in Brisbane City. His particular interests are planting design and plant selection. He grows a wide range of plants including palms, cycads, bromeliads, aroids, orchids and succulents. He also enjoys growing vegetables, focusing on heritage and less common ethnic vegetables using organic gardening methods. He enjoys trialing the diversity of plants that thrive in our humid subtropical climate and recording various successes and failures.

Feature Articles by Arno in subTropical Gardening

• Your climate, your garden – Issue 1
• The Cooktown orchid – Issue 1
• Drought proof garden at Caboolture – Issue 2
• The Lotus – Issue 2
• Allamanda – Issue 3
• Edible aquatics – Issue 3
• Stringybark cottage – Issue 4
• Allamanda part 2 – Issue 4
• Edible aquatics part 2 – Issue 4
• The Wickes garden – Issue 5
• Allamanda part 2 – Issue 5
• Edible aquatics part 3 – Issue 5
• Totara Waters – Issue 6
• Edible aquatics part 4 – Issue 6
• Sitio Roberto Burle Marx – Issue 6
• An Artist’s Garden – Issue 6
• Pools ponds and water gardens – Issue 7
• Hardy vegetables for Brisbane – Issue 7
• Gardening on acreage – Issue 8
• Vegetables for dry conditions – Issue 8
• Water gardening in warm climates – Issue 9
• Vegetables for dry conditions part 3 – Issue 9
• Beans, beans, beans – Issue 10
• Fish for your pond – Issue 10
• Beans, beans, beans – more beans – Issue 11
• Fish for your pond – Issue 11
• Growing hedges - Issue 12
• Beans: Lablab and Poor Man's Beans - Issue 12