Tucked away in the lush southwest corner of Western Australia is Gardenup, a biodynamic farm, in the town of Boyup Brook. But it’s not just any biodynamic farm. Its owner Jacqueline Zanders (shown here with a basket of delicious apples) and the other founding members of Gardenup, her daughter Dana van Goethem, and Dana’s partner [...]
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Many professionals in the gardening and landscaping industry are exploring ways of creating more sustainable landscapes. Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) is the hot topic of discussion amongst landscape professionals and even developers, who are now being instructed by legislation to ensure WSUD is incorporated into their developments. WSUD? It’s only one of the most [...] Hillside, in Melbourne’s outer north-western suburbs, is experiencing a housing boom. New streets and homes are springing up everywhere. But it’s one thing to build a nice house here; it’s quite another thing to establish a garden. It’s a tough environment – rocky and windswept, and the area has a fairly low rainfall by Melbourne standards. An [...] Imagine getting your entire street involved in sustainability – collective sustainability? Sounds like a big ask, but it’s happening! Across New South Wales and Victoria there are about 150 communities now involved in an exciting initiative that does just that. It’s called the Sustainability Streets Approach. Participants learn about sustainability, implement changes, measure their progress, share their [...] Community Gardens can be found dotted around cities everywhere. Land is often supplied by local councils. It is then divided into small garden allotments, which people apply to use. Community Gardens are essentially produce gardens and, as can be seen here at the Flemington Community Garden, often fulfill a very necessary service for people living in [...] A Really BIG Aussie Garden In 1997, the design for the Australian Garden within the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, in Victoria, won the prestigious Landscape Excellence Award and the Landscape Masterplan Award from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (Vic & Tas). It also won the national Landscape Masterplan Award in 1998, pipping the Olympic Games [...] View Street Garden is such a humble name for this magnificent garden in its magnificent landscape setting alongside the Yarra River, in the inner Melbourne suburb of Alphington. It’s a garden of the size that can host community events, complete with a large amphitheatre that can seat 250 (with many more people able to utilise the [...] This former tennis court has had a couple of changes in its lifetime, but its latest is to become a sustainable garden with putting greens! We are visiting the garden of Geoff and Peta Iles, proprietors of Décor Pebbles. It’s on about 3 hectares (¾ acre) in Vermont, an eastern suburb of Melbourne. Originally the [...] Location: Rosanna, Victoria This garden won the Banyule City Council ‘Best Residential Sustainable Garden’ award for 2003-2004. Sue runs a gardening maintenance and plant-scaping business. She specialises in advising residents of indigenous plant choices that suit the preferred garden style while enhancing the habitat value of the garden. Plants are chosen for the site and watering [...] There are often plenty of challenges for landscape designers when changing an older style garden. For example, there may be existing trees and other garden elements that need to be retained. But when the redesign must also result in a more sustainable garden, the challenges are even greater. This older garden in Kew was recently redesigned [...] |
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