Friday, September 20, 2024

Landscape Design

A relaxed look with natural elements and bold leafy foliage (Image:Jason Busch/Landart)
Landscape Design

Landscape Design Trends for 2023

Supplied by Landart

Mediterranean influences, bold leaf foliage, soft curves, timber and stone materials, and colour palettes of earthy naturals, greens, blues, and fresh white. With a business grounded in being amongst the first to deliver outdoor design trends, Matt Leacy, creative director and founder of the award-winning Landart, shares some of the key outdoor trends for 2023.Continue reading

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Biofilta food cubes at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (Image: TSLC)
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Workplace urban farms, more than a food source

By Georgia Warren

Workplace farms add environmental and social amenity to office spaces, as well as  economic value. Green spaces woven into and around the built form provide a sense of human scale and relationship to the broader urban form.  

By growing food, workplace farms provide a range of benefits for workplaces, including improved food security and nutrition, reduced food bills, increased social connection, and opportunities for exercise and team building.… Continue reading

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The lilly pilly beetle (Paropsides calypso) eats the leaves of species and cultivars of the Syzygium genus, causing foliar damage (Image: Courtesy of Denis Crawford)
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Are you designing a landscape or a pest highway?

By Gabrielle Stannus

Most of us understand integrated pest management (IPM) as an environmentally sensitive way of managing pests and diseases in plants, be they in productive, environmental, or ornamental landscapes. IPM includes cultural, chemical, biological, genetic, and physical methods to control garden and landscape pests.Continue reading

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These existing green spaces will be transformed into a working urban farm (Image: Michael Casey)
Landscape Design

Designing green spaces benefits and strengthens community

By Michael Casey

The benefits of green spaces are well documented but the many and varied tangible benefits they provide is where we need a greater understanding to assist us in identifying and undertaking more robust design and advocacy practice for green spaces.Continue reading

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