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This Week on Landscape Design: After almost a decade of hard work, Toms Creek finds success as a nursery and a landscaping company. Old hand crafted stone walls – find them in different parts of the world. Planters galore – Check out these building that showcase...
This Week on Landscape Design Looking for a plant that drives in extremely hot weather, other than cacti, there’s Blue Elf aloe. Newsweek interviews landscape architect Martha Schwartz. Her company focuses on activating and regenerating urban sites and city centres....
This Week on Landscape Design Find out how a landfill called “Mountain of Crap” is turned into a lovely park Quality of food is relative to how the crops are grown. Let’s take a look at how local farmers grow our food. Here are some new ideas on how to decorate with...
This Week on Landscape Design Check out some of the best land arts around the world. A coffee cup that turns into a seed packet after use so you can plant a tree hits Kickstarter. Will it garner support? $500,000 grant awarded to RFC to provide free training programs...
This Week on Landscape Design In being a great leader, gender does not matter. Here’s your first virtual look into Sydney’s International Convention Center soon to rise at Darling Harbour. A sneak peek into the world that is architecture Find out where Sydney and...
This week on Landscape Design A restaurant that keeps the kids in mind… Who needs high-chairs? What’s garden designs are trending? Messy gardens are. There’s a reason they call it a bedhead design. Mark and Becky just wanted to install electric garage doors. What they...
This week on Landscape Design: Check out what’s probably the smartest small space ever. And why do architects wear black? The decades-old joke. Margie Holly, in her column, tells us how a fun workplace is good for small businesses. Check out developments in Singapore...
Blooming orchids look so fragile that you could not imagine it growing in pots or indoors especially if you are an “orchid beginner”. Phalaenopsis, also known as moth orchids are the best orchids to be cultivated at home. It is not only exquisite but is also...
Clivia miniata which is commonly known as fire lily, natal lily, and bush lily is a native plant in damp woodlands. Its colourful flowers that are usually red, orange or yellow give life to the environment especially when it is cultivated in pots. Clivia miniata...
Carrion flowers, also known as “corpse flower” or “striking flower”, usually grow in the forest. This plant is known for its large flowers. Most people think that because of its physical appearance, it is hard to propagate carrion flowers in containers when in fact,...
Begonias are known for their variety of colours and patterns, with ruffled and smooth shaped leaves. They create a beautiful ambiance and can grow beautifully when their needs are met. It is considered as one of the most favoured plants by gardeners because of its...
The basil herb is often used in an array of food preparations from healthy sandwiches to salads to pastas and a whole lot more. Culinary experts say it is not only because of the good it does to the body but also because of its aromatic and tasty leaves. You’re likely...
The Camellia plant is best admired for its flowers. Its attractive blooms come in many various sizes and colours in many interesting forms. This disease-resistant plant shows off its magnificent flower display when most of the flora in the garden is looking drab and...
Considering its versatility and how widely-used it is, chives are among those herbs that are pretty easy to grow in garden pots. We use them so often in many of our food preparations that it is only practical when growing chives at home. Not only will you have an...
Coriander is a nice leafy herb that stays abundantly leafy during most of the seasons with the exception of the hot months. Start growing coriander in winter, as it actually thrives best in garden pots throughout the cooler months. Growing Coriander in Pots Just like...
A native of the tropical Americas, bromeliads are attractive hardy plants that come in various varieties of various leafage colour. Bromeliad types come in different sizes too, and its leaves come in several interesting shapes and patterns. Growing bromeliads in...
Parsley, as we all know, is valued for its flavor. Growing parsley indoors is not at all complex. A novice gardener might be surprised how simple it actually is. Placing a nice garden pot of parsley on a sunny windowsill is not only decorative, it is practical, too....
Agave attenuata is for a long time now a highly-favoured plant among landscapers and gardeners and it is apparent why. Aside from being already attractive on their own, agaves make a beautiful feature plant in planters or garden pots (centerpiece plant) which makes it...
"There's something about a white building that makes you wish you had a can of spray paint." That's really naughty, especially since our best clients and friends are designers! Le Corbusier made white buildings famous and the trend found its way to the US where...
With a wealth of information about Australia's rocks behind us, there's one last thing to do - start landscaping with rocks. Let's Rock the Design What nice triangular shapes within a triangular shape! And the distribution of plants and posies is charming. The...
Now "nitty" and "gritty" take over—geometry, color and texture arrest our attention to study, evaluate and find their place in our lexicon and design ideas. And for this we need to take a different direction so as to have a rich resource from which to choose when we...
In an earlier article, we talked about rocks having "purpose," finding enough evidence to support the claim. Since then more exploration has discovered, perhaps, that their most important purpose has been their role as the recording medium to reveal the story of...
Aborigine Mystery They were a complete mystery for years until someone must have talked to the right person and learned that they were a kind of track border, perhaps to the next aboriginal village or an intervening sacred place. This is located along the Anne...
"Steady as a Rock," "Solid as a Rock," "Rock of Ages," "Love You like a Rock"—pretty good indications that rocks have "Purpose," wouldn't you say? We'll achieve a balance by leaving the esoteric and move into the practical aspect of their existence, shall we? We will...
One great thing about rocks: you don't have to mow them. Oh—and you don't have to water or feed them either. Low maintenance landscaping design? Onto something here? Because brain cells are synapsing away over a few delightful things to ponder. Alright then, it's on...
Modern architecture demands the surrounding landscape to suit its vertical lines and size, something that traditional gardening may have a hard time achieving. Large containers are now more and more popular for landscape management with landscape designers, because...
Container gardening is preferred by many because of the great advantages it offers. First of all, even those with very little available space at their disposal can create interesting effects with just a few large planters filled with nice looking plants. Also, they...
Large pots are often preferred by landscapers and garden designers because of their many benefits. They are amazing at retaining moisture and protecting plants from extreme temperatures. They also re-create, as well as it is possible, the natural conditions of a...
Large, beautiful gardens are the pride and joy of any gardener, but not everybody has enough space for such large endeavours. Container gardening is the next logical step and a great alternative, because it allows the creation of a small patch of paradise, even when...
Not everybody has a lot of space available for planting gardens, which is why small landscaping projects can greatly benefit from placing plants in containers that are easy to move around, do not take a lot of space, and also have a great impact on the surroundings....