Monday, March 16, 2026

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LandscapeLandscape Design

Better with age

By Lynne Testoni

A luxury landscape for a seniors’ living project features quality elements from the rooftop down.

A premium senior living development, The Langlee, was a construction project with multiple elements of soft landscaping, irrigation, maintenance and hard landscaping from the ground to the rooftops, including outdoor kitchens and firepits.… Continue reading

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Garden DesignLandscape

Temporal dynamics in design

How living systems accumulate value

By Erik van Zuilekom

Unlike built infrastructure that generally depreciates from day one, ecologically designed landscapes appreciate through biological compound interest. This temporal inversion, where gardens become more valuable, stable, and integrated over time, emerges when we design with succession rather than against it.Continue reading

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Plant PalettePlants

An ancient tree for contemporary gardens

By Caleb Roberts

Botanical name: Ginkgo biloba

Common names: Ginkgo, maidenhair tree

Family: Ginkgoaceae

Origin or native range: Ginkgo biloba is the sole surviving species within its entire division, class, order and family. This monotypic ‘living fossil’, so called because fossils nearly identical to the modern tree date back to the Jurassic period (around 170 million years ago), is now found virtually unchanged from its earlier iterations in small, woodland populations in temperate China.… Continue reading

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EditorialIndustry Event

Australian Horticultural Trials Week

By Gabrielle Stannus

The 2025 Australian Horticultural Trials Week kicked off on Monday 1 December with a Summer Soiree held at KCC Park in Skye. The Nursery and Garden Industry Victoria (NGIV) announced the winners of its 2026 Plant of the Year awards during the evening, with Mansfield’s Propagation Nursery taking out the top gong for Corymbia ficifolia ‘Precious Pearl’.Continue reading

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Garden CentresNursery Industry

Reinventing the independent garden centre

By John Stanley, Sid Raisch and Dries Jansen

This series of articles aims to look at the future opportunities, changes and challenges that independent garden centres around the globe face in the next few years. Before we look into our crystal ball, we should first look back.Continue reading

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Edible landscapesLandscape

Edible landscapes in the public realm

By Chris Williams

In this article I outline reasons for integrating community-based food production into municipal-level open space strategies. I argue that food production in public landscapes should be a fundamental part of a multi-functional urban green space system. Within this framework, thinking of crops and food plants as potentially edimental (both edible and ornamental) offers a powerful way to achieve the following: high-quality aesthetic objectives for general open space users; increased cultural relevance (through so-called culturally appropriate foods); and production of food for use by volunteer growers or for donation to food relief organisations.Continue reading

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Food ForestsLandscape

Food forestry in the urban landscape

By Pauline Haydock

Australians have been avid gardeners for many decades. We have come a long way from the post war aesthetic of a front yard with a bed of roses, a cypress hedge and a competitively tended lawn. Things are changing.Continue reading

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EditorialResearch & Development

How to prepare a successful R&D Tax Incentive claim

A practical guide for horticulture businesses

By Tania Harman and Daniel Knox

The Australian Government’s R&D Tax Incentive offers horticulture businesses a valuable opportunity to fund innovation and reduce costs. This practical guide explains how to prepare a successful claim, avoid common pitfalls and maximise benefits.Continue reading

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AdvertorialEditorial

Edimental Australian landscape plants

By Daniel Fuller

Australia is home to many plant species that have fed people for thousands of years. Did you know that the following ornamental species are edible?

Dianella caerulea 'DCNCO' Trade Name Breeze® (Image supplied by Ozbreed)
Dianella caerulea ‘DCNCO’ Trade Name Breeze®
(Image supplied by Ozbreed)

Dianella caerulea berries are almost like little blueberries with pleasantly crunchy seeds.… Continue reading

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LandscapingPlants

A taste for landscaping

By Patrick Regnault

During COVID-19, the popularity of growing one’s own food increased dramatically. However, food production to the level of self-sufficiency requires more land and effort than most people are willing to do or capable of making. That said, we can add trees, shrubs and climbers, or even aquatic plants to our plant palettes that will look good and produce food.Continue reading

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