Monday, July 7, 2025
Green Star ratings provide opportunities for interior plantscapers Green Star ratings provide opportunities for interior plantscapers (!mages: Ambius Australia)
Interior Plantscaping

Post-COVID: A Green Star on the horizon for interior plantscapes

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By Gabrielle Stannus

With the recent spate of COVID-19 lockdowns and stay-at-home orders coming to an end, employers are seeking to attract their staff back to the workplace. Johan Hodgson from Ambius Australia says that the Green Building Council of Australia’s Green Star rating tool, provides a useful selling point for interior plantscapers seeking to communicate the benefits of indoor plants to developers, architects and other businesses.… Continue reading

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Green track Cumberland, Parramatta Light Rail Green track Cumberland, Parramatta Light Rail
Turf

Light rail turf test on track

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By Sandra Godwin

Two TurfBreed varieties are being tested to see which is most suitable for use in sections of green track in the Parramatta Light Rail project.

The landscaped green track, a first for New South Wales (NSW), is expected to become a key attraction in three places: the Cumberland Hospital heritage precinct, Robin Thomas Reserve and Tramway Avenue.… Continue reading

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Meg and Georgia planning elements of the tour as they walk through Fern Gully, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (Image: Pip Hirst) Meg and Georgia planning elements of the tour as they walk through Fern Gully, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (Image: Pip Hirst)
Botanic Gardens

Botany Bootcamp: a public program to combat plant blindness

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By Dr. Megan Hirst and Georgia Warren

Botany Bootcamp helps put some spring in the step to give plant blindness the boot, and the mind and body a boost as participants power walk between the lush living plant collections at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.… Continue reading

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Warrigal Greens, an edible succulent common to coastal areas of southern Austral-ia, has made it to our plates at home and in high-end restaurants Warrigal Greens, an edible succulent common to coastal areas of southern Austral-ia, has made it to our plates at home and in high-end restaurants
Bush Food

Bush tucker: The ultimate ‘home grown’

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By John Fitzsimmons

Driven by rising acknowledgement and regard for indigenous knowledge, environmental concerns, and the ever-present search for new taste sensations and culinary experiences, broad interest in ‘bush tucker’ has never been higher. What’s interesting is many edible indigenous or wild plants have been right under our noses all along.… Continue reading

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Bush Food

Aussie bush foods for biodiversity and conservation

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By Bruce Thompson

I remember reading Tim Low’s book “Wild Food Plants of Australia” as though gaining entry to a secret society of horticulturists. In those pages, my name was invisibly written, granted entry to that forbidden library of arcane knowledge where edible Aussie plants and fruits were celebrated again after languishing unnoticed for decades, despite the tens of thousands of years they provided sustenance to First Nations people.… Continue reading

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Aerial view of the property showing the location of the Inala Jurassic Garden Inala (Image: Inala-B Moriarty) Aerial view of the property showing the location of the Inala Jurassic Garden Inala (Image: Inala-B Moriarty)
Botanic Gardens

A global collection of Gondwanan flora in Tasmania

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By Dr Tonia Cochran

The Inala Jurassic Garden is a privately-owned botanic garden located on South Bruny Island, south-eastern Tasmania. Its relatively remote location, on an ‘island off an island off an island’, is rather a fitting place for a garden which features living plant families whose ancestors thrived on the ancient Gondwana supercontinent before it split to form today’s southern land masses – quite the Jurassic Park, with its plant equivalent of dinosaurs that are still with us today.… Continue reading

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A high traffic area on market day and a beautiful view A high traffic area on market day and a beautiful view (Images supplied by Turfbreed)
Turf

Historic Coal Loader site offers perfect green roof platform for Nara Native Zoysia

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By Sandra Godwin

Each week thousands of people visit the Coal Loader at Balls Head, Waverton in New South Wales, to enjoy the fresh air and million-dollar views across Sydney Harbour. It’s a far cry from the days when workers laboured under a thick layer of black dust to unload coal from bulk carriers and transfer it onto smaller, coal-fired steam ships.… Continue reading

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