Tag: Gardens
The next 20 years for Melbourne’s botanic gardens
An underground herbarium has been proposed for Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in a 20-year masterplan.
A healing garden for Heide
The Healing Garden by Openwork will be planted between Heide founder Sunday Reed’s original heritage-listed kitchen garden and the Heide cottage.
Vic govt. pledges $5m for new nature and science precinct at Royal Botanic Gardens
The Victorian Government has committed $5 million to begin work on the planning and design of a new nature and science precinct at the Royal Botanic Gardens.
An Australian garden in Berlin
TCL’s Cultivated by Fire garden for the 2017 International Horticultural Exhibition in Berlin fosters an understanding of Australia’s rich cultural and environmental history.
Living landscapes: Five residential gardens
From the conscious chaos of the Towers Road Residence garden to the restrained elegance of Fairfield House, Landscape Australia editor Emily Wong rounds up five recent projects that explore landscapes as spaces for living.
California dreaming: The gardens of Bernard Trainor
Only a handful of Australian designers have pursued careers abroad and achieved international recognition. One of them is landscape designer Bernard Trainor, whose California-based practice has built an impressive portfolio of projects on the west coast of the USA.
Foliage fervour: Bungalow Garden Rooms
A series of diverse, textural and dynamic “garden rooms” are the result of a close collaboration between architect and landscape architect and celebrate a life lived outdoors.
The New Australian Garden: Landscapes for living
Howard Tanner reviews Michael Bates’ book The New Australian Garden: Landscapes for living.
National Gallery of Australia Sculpture Garden
Thirty years after planting, this serpentine trail is now a destination in its own right.
Could the grass be greener above the Melbourne Metro Tunnel?
Melbourne’s underground rail project also contains a plan to actively improve, increase and preserve Melbourne’s inner-city “living infrastructure.”
Dan Young and Paul Owen: Rethinking the suburban landscape
Dan Young began his landscape architecture practice with the help of friend and collaborator Paul Owen (Owen Architecture), working on a number of residential projects in Brisbane. Landscape Australia caught up with the duo to talk collaboration, private practice and planting design.
Charles House: A new bush garden
Featuring eclectic combinations of plant species, this garden in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs is an immersive space full of diversity and delight.
Fine-tuning the planting design cycle
Green wall and roof garden projects pose many challenges to good planting design outcomes, particularly synergizing design intent and management. How can the processes be improved?
Winners announced: AILDM National Awards
The Australian Institute of Landscape Designers and Managers (AILDM) announced its annual awards in Sydney.
Michael Bates: The education of a gardener
Michael Bates, arguably the most enterprising landscape contractor in the Sydney region, reflects on his education as a gardener in this excerpt from his recent book, The New Australian Garden.
Horse Island: A garden of grandeur
Trevor and Christina Kennedy have created a significant and substantial garden on their own private island near Bodalla on the South Coast of New South Wales.
Spring bloom: A postcard from the 2017 Chelsea Garden Show
Howard Tanner visits the oldest and most distinguished garden trade show in the world and finds a breathtaking range of design ideas and plant material.
Structured chaos: Towers Road Residence Gardens
The Towers Road garden by Taylor Cullity Lethlean fosters a ‘sense of embrace’ — a poetic garden of structured chaos.
Marc Treib: Attending place
Noted historian and critic of landscape architecture, Marc Treib, speaks with Fiona Johnson about his new book Austere Gardens, Isamu Noguchi and landscape design.
Sh*t Gardens of Melbourne II: A celebration not a condemnation
Cassandra Chilton reviews the recent exhibition Shit Gardens of Melbourne II: A Celebration Not a Condemnation – an unofficial fringe event to the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.