Landscape Architecture Australia — Issue 154 — May 2017

We need to categorize plants in a more effective way – presenting more information about growth habits, visual form and uses – t ...

AGENDA Another way of categorizing the ways we use plants is by dividing them into these groups of design usefulness: Feature s ...

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Green wall and roof garden projects pose many challenges to good planting design outcomes, particularly synergizing design inten ...

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Should weeds be embraced in built-up urban environments to provide resilient plantings that can thrive in the toughest condition ...

AGENDA been better visibility for traffic and zero maintenance. Interestingly, the latter has not been the case. The artificial ...

The humble native meadow in Sydney’s historic Prince Alfred Park demonstrates that planting design has more to offer than decora ...

AGENDA The green roof of the Prince Alfred Park Pool, by Neeson Murcutt Architects and Sue Barnsley Design, introduced an endem ...

AGENDA space the meadow may evoke, but also to the broader, largely erased landscape history of Sydney. Themeda, whose distincti ...

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T he artificial construct of new headland evoc- ative of Sydney Harbour’s natural charms a former prime minister’s dream – repr ...

Simon Leake is a soil scientist and founder and managing director of SESL Australia. Stuart Pittendrigh is a landscape architec ...

Blocks of sandstone attempt to create a naturalistic foreshore environment. Photo: Brett Boardman 6–7. A curved walkway and cy ...

TREES Allocasuarina littoralis (black she-oak) Angophora costata (Sydney red gum) Banksia integrifolia (coast banksia) Corymbia ...

R esearch used to create the Olympic Park meadow in London is now informing research here in Australia. The Woody Meadow Project ...

BASE LAYER Astartea fascicularis (false baeckea) Goodenia ovata ‘Gold Cover’ Dampiera alata (winged-stem dampiera) Veronica aren ...

REVIEWS, NEWS AND OPINIONS ON LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, URBAN DESIGN AND PL ANNING Image: Monash University Earth Sciences Garden ...

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