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Grassland Gardens: An award-winning case study
Due to a greater sensitivity to our environment as well as the realization that water use for landscaping purposes will probably become more restricted in the near future. Many landscapers have started...
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If the Bees go, We go
Has a new mass extinction of life on earth already started? After all, it has already happened five times! To answer the question we need to step back and recap some of the earth’s history as related...
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Soil is WHAT?
The secret to a resilient garden is to put the right plant in the right place. Simple, isn’t it? But the right place has a few aspects that we will elaborate on in the next few newsletters. Bear with...
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RIGHT PLANT, RIGHT PLACE
The previous topic that we discussed (‘Soil is WHAT?”) introduced the concept of “Right plant, Right place.” Since soil is the most difficult to manipulate of all ecosystem parameters required for...
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GO WITH THE FLOW.
(The dynamic nature of a garden that has incorporated ecological principles in its design). Before we can discuss this topic, let us just look at the concept “ecology”. It simply refers to the...
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LOW MAINTENANCE GARDENING REQUIRES CAREFUL PLANNING
Inherent in the previous topic “Go with the Flow”, is the concept of low maintenance. Although many of you are already familiar with the topic I think it is worth highlighting some points in this...
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The “Wildflower Wholesale Nursery” Database
The main aim of the database, created for the Wildflower Wholesale Nursery website, was to collect searchable information about suitable plants for landscaping that occur or are adapted to the...
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Ecological Intelligence
Quite recently, I gave a presentation on this topic at the University of Pretoria (for Architecture and Landscape Architecture students) and I thought it would be appropriate to share it with a wider...
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Landscaping viewed from a Covid-19 perspective
By this time, we are all painfully aware (emotionally and financially) of the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. None of us really foresaw the consequences – initially I thought it is only another...
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Spring is in the Air
Maybe it was just a long, lonely COVID-19 winter or I am the eternal optimist, but I think Spring is in the air. Or if it is not, it is a good time to start thinking about it. And now I am talking on...
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