05 Dec Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia
The soil and landscape grid of Australia is an incredibly exciting free tool that will be extremely useful for landscape...
24 Nov Native Stingless Bee Hive Inspection at Centennial Park
This hive is facing north secured to a sun shelter eave on the west. Notice the shade forming on...
21 Nov A new set of soil design standards implemented in Washington DC.
Soil is key to healthy trees It is great to see some parallel thinking in the USA with the implementation of...
20 Nov See a Native Bee Hive being inspected and split at Centennial Park.
Field Day Saturday 22nd November 2014, 10am Sydney Bee Club president and secretary, Doug and Elke have organised a native hive split...
10 Nov Award of Excellence for Research and Communication in Landscape Architecture
Elke is delighted to announce she has won the Award of Excellence for Research and Communication in Landscape Architecture at...
06 Nov The role of bees to our food supply
Thank you to the wonderful group of landscape architects who listened to me talk at the Food in the Landscape...
05 Nov Native bees: If nature is the ultimate supermarket, who is looking after its supply chain?
Bee pollination of food crops and plants is called 'ecosystem services'. A recently publised article by Beth Askham explains that bees...
05 Nov Future forecasting: landscape architects might save the world
"When your design “collaborator” is a water table, or a soil ecology, then you will always need to allow for...
30 Sep Bush Fire prone land 10/50 changes as at 1st Oct 2014
The 10/50 Vegetation Clearing Entitlement has changed as of yesterday. The changes are: The 10/50 entitlement area for Category 2 Bush Fire Prone...
29 Sep Bee Swarm Removal
I have had a lot of phone calls over the past 2 weeks for the removal of bee swarms. ...