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Memorial for Black Summer detail (Image: Wollongong City Council)

Sculpting a unique garden experience

05/06/2023 Gabreielle Stannus 700 Views 0 Comments

By Gabrielle Stannus

If you are a manager of a park or garden seeking to increase its visitation rates, have you considered installing artwork either permanently or temporarily to enhance visitor experience? I spoke with two people behind the scenes at this year’s Sculpture in the Garden exhibition at the Wollongong Botanic Garden in New South Wales, to find out their tips for ensuring public art looks ‘good’ and functions ‘well’ whilst enhancing the existing attributes of a landscape.… Continue reading

Shadows and sun dapples can both be used to enhance the pleasure of a garden (Image: Patrick Regnault)

Landscape Design

Shade and shadows

05/06/2023 Patrick Regnault 776 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Patrick Regnault

Shade and shadows are influential in the garden. The first one can be a blessing, cooling and restful, or challenging – what to plant and how to deal with it. The second one is easily overlooked, always changing and evolving as the day and seasons pass, creating ephemeral patterns that can be whimsical or sculptural.… Continue reading

Appropriate plant selection helps to achieve a successful outcome.

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Three main factors of plant selection

04/06/2023 Georgia Warren 867 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Georgia Warren

One of the first stages of designing a space is considering the placement of hard landscaping elements, such as decks, paths, paving, seating, and walls. Once the hardscape elements have been laid out, providing a structural “backbone” to the plan, planting can be considered.… Continue reading

Beauty and productivity in Chile - vines, lavender for oil, and olives (Image: Chloe Humphreys)

Landscape

Finding sympathy with a changing natural landscape

06/05/2023 John Fitzsimmons 778 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By John Fitzsimmons

As it exited pandemic times the biennial Australian Landscape Conference 2023 attracted impressive audience numbers and was another signature offering of diverse and accomplished presenters. While the 2023 theme was nominally ‘Beyond the Boundaries’ it could be argued this conference revealed just how much awareness, skill, and creativity is needed and how challenging it can be to identify ‘boundaries’ much less define them.… Continue reading

City Sanctuary’ by Angelina Fox, Porch Envy (Image: Ludovic Vilbert, Inwardout Studio)

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Top tips for designing your next balcony garden

06/05/2023 Gabrielle Stannus 693 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Gabrielle Stannus

A small footprint does not necessarily make for a boring garden, judging by the balconies I saw at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show recently. Given the growing number of multi-level apartment buildings that have been, and are continuing to be constructed in our urban environments, the demand for balcony gardens will not be going away anytime soon.… Continue reading

Folia Apartments biodiversity planting throughout all balcony gardens (Image: Michael Casey)

Green Infrastructure Landscape

Biodiversity built for purpose

04/05/2023 Michael Casey 711 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Michael Casey

Global cities continue to develop at a rapid rate, and with an increase in size comes more people, more built structures, and in a lot of cases fewer green spaces for biodiversity to thrive. To counter the reduction of biodiversity, city planning needs to incorporate larger dedicated green areas rather than commonly creating small green spaces.… Continue reading

Rehabilitation Garden project concept (Images supplied by OUTHOUSE Design)

Landscape Design

Wellness Garden: The essence of flow

04/05/2023 admin 1047 Views 0 Comments Botanic gardens, Garden Design, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design

By Karen Lau and Steve Warner

It has long been said that gardens can heal the soul and replenish depleted spirits. For years, we have been coming together in one form or another to cultivate soil, produce food and experience a social connection.… Continue reading

Solar panels integrated with green roof on Daramu House, Gadigal Land (Image: Lendlease)

Green Infrastructure Landscape

PV panels and green roof combinations are taking charge

11/04/2023 Michael Casey 1032 Views 0 Comments Garden Design, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design

By Michael Casey

Our cities are full of built structures with buildings of all shapes and sizes dominating our skylines, and they all have one thing in common – in most cases, they have an underutilised roof space.

Over the course of decades, roof spaces of all shapes and forms have been used to store HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) installations, and until recently, photovoltaic panels (PV).… Continue reading

A Grape Ivy’s (Cissus nodosa) roots hang from a pergola at Enabling Village (Image: Salad Dressing)

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Singapore: Rewilding the garden city

10/04/2023 Gabrielle Stannus 865 Views 0 Comments #Tree, Botanic gardens, Garden Design, gardening, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape, landscape design, Ornamental trees, Shade Trees

By Gabrielle Stannus

Visiting Singapore recently, I took in a good few of its more manicured horticultural highlights, including the Singapore Botanic Gardens, and its showy counterpart Gardens by the Bay. However, seeking design inspiration of a different type, I trekked out to The Grandstand, a rather ‘unfussy mall’, to visit a landscape architecture studio seeking to rewild not only the gardens, but the hearts and minds of Singaporeans.… Continue reading

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

Landscape Design

Landscape Design Trends for 2023

06/03/2023 admin 1386 Views 0 Comments #Tree, design trends, Garden Design, horticultural, horticultural industry, landscape design, Landscape design trends

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