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Low Maintenance Plants for Your Next Landscape Design Project

Low Maintenance Plants for Your Next Landscape Design Project

Choosing what type of plants to use for your next landscape design project can be tricky at times. Your clients will have different demands. If you have clients that do not want to do a lot of maintenance work, then we can recommend these low-maintenance plants....

Going Native VI: Celebrating Native Designs for Landscaping

Going Native VI: Celebrating Native Designs for Landscaping

Here we are at the end of our journey across Australia to discover and native designs for landscaping indigenous plants in three areas of the country. Perth There are many stone features along the road between Perth and Neale Junction.  One day-tripper says, "As you...

Going Native V: Using Native Flowers for Landscaping

Going Native V: Using Native Flowers for Landscaping

Their scent should stimulate our olfactory senses to bring us in touch with the earth.  The colours of native flowers for landscaping should make us more aware of how our emotional senses operate.  Shapes that reflect a precise geometry are lessons in order. ...

Going Native III: Using Native Shrubs and Trees for Landscaping

Going Native III: Using Native Shrubs and Trees for Landscaping

Accent the Positive Shrubs and trees carry the volume, bring scale into the landscape and quite often play up the shape and delicacy of their companion plants.  One tree can be the star of the show, but it's difficult for a shrub to assume that role---difficult, but...

Going Native II: Using Native Grasses for Landscaping

Going Native II: Using Native Grasses for Landscaping

In this second of our series on re-vegetative design, we'll look at the fascinating subject of native grasses for landscaping. Plumed or spiked, tall and graceful or tufted patches, native grasses can be the accents that produce a glissando or staccato note in the...

Going Native I: Using Native Rocks for Landscaping

Going Native I: Using Native Rocks for Landscaping

Re-vegetation is an effort dedicated to replenishing the native flora of an area using indigenous plants and native rocks for landscaping. Learning about this lovely movement afoot makes all sorts of sense when you realise that designing with the naturally occurring...

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