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 King 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 – Part 1 – Issue 3
• Edible Aquatics – Part 1 – 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
• Places to be – 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 2 – Issue 9
• Beans, beans, beans – Issue 10
• Fish for your Pond – Part 1 – Issue 10
• Beans, beans, beans – More Beans – Issue 11
• Fish for your Pond – Part 2 – Issue 11
• Growing hedges – Issue 12
• Beans – Lablab and Poor Man's Beans – Issue 12
• Alternantheras – colourful and tasty – Issue 13
• Planning your vegetable garden – Issue 13
• Planting your vegetable garden – Issue 14
• Garden Calendar – Feb/Mar/Apr – Issue 14
• Bring those ideas back home – Issue 15
• Vegies – Rosella – Issue 15
• Fowl – Urban Turkey – Issue 15
• Garden Calendar – May/June/July – Issue 15
• Vegies – Queensland Blue – Issue 16
• Garden Calendar – Aug/Sept/Oct – Issue 16
• Vegies – Chokos – Issue 17
• Garden Calendar – Nov/Dec/Jan – Issue 17
• Vegies – Basella – Issue 18
• Garden Calendar – Feb/Mar/Apr – Issue 18
• Funky Foliage – Polscias cumingiana 'Aurea' – Issue 18
• Vegies – Cherry Tomatoes – Issue 19
• Garden Calendar – May/June/July – Issue 19
• Vegies – Yacon – Issue 20
• Garden Calendar – Aug/Sep/Oct – Issue 20
• Bromeliads – Aechmea caudata – Issue 20
• Vegies – Climbing Vegetables – Issue 21
• Garden Calendar – Nov/Dec/Jan – Issue 21
• Flood – Issue 22
• Vegies – Aibika – Issue 22
• Garden Calendar – Feb/Mar/Apr – Issue 22
• Vegies – Bitter Melon – Issue 23
• Garden Calendar – May/June/July – Issue 23
• Vegies – Cassava – Issue 24
• Garden Calendar – Aug/Sep/Oct – Issue 24
• Garden of Dreams – Issue 25
• Vegies – Yam Bean, Jicama – Issue 25
• Garden Calendar – Nov/Dec/Jan – Issue 25
• Popular Polyscias – Issue 26
• Vegies – Rocket – Issue 26
• Garden Calendar – Feb/Mar/Apr – Issue 26