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Why Don't Evergreens Change Color and Drop Their Leaves Every Fall?
Evergreen conifers – cone-bearing trees – retain their foliage year-round and have a different strategy for withstanding winter’s stresses.
This Year’s Top Landscaping Trends
This article explores some of the year’s top landscaping trends to consider.
Future Forecasting: Landscape Architects Might Save the World
Whether climate change or urbanisation, population growth or densification, landscape architects have ideas for how to make our future cities liveable, workable and beautiful.
Lifestyle Block Landscaping
An effective landscape plan will see the same principles and design process applied, regardless of the size of the land parcel in question
Native vs Exotic Planting
If you’re contemplating a new planting this spring, before you plant what you’ve always preferred, you may want to consider looking at your plant selection with different eyes.
20+ CAD Drawings to Help You with Your Landscaping Needs
In this article we've gathered 20+ CAD drawings that will help you with your landscape design needs and perhaps provide a little inspiration for you too.
Defining and Designing Sustainable Landscapes
As land becomes scarce and ever more precious, outdoor spaces need to be designed to provide value in many ways, i.e., increasing land values, rewarding the senses, and most importantly promoting healthy communities with a sense of pride and engagement.
9 Plants to Avoid if You Have Allergies
Do allergies or asthma keep you from enjoying your garden? The trick is to use plants that give you the look you want without causing you problems.
Green infrastructure in reducing urban runoff – does size matter?
The Royal Horticultural Society and the Landscape Department designed a garden specifically to address the effects of climate change.
Fireproofing California: Mitigating fire risk through adaptive design & planning
As planning and design professionals with the power to affect change, I believe it is our responsibility to provide new paradigms for mitigating urban fire risk – no matter how large or small.
What Makes a Liveable City?
This article explores the qualities that make a city liveable.
Nature knows best – Could embracing wildflowers improve garden resilience?
Research suggests that wildflowers may provide a benefit in the form of improved resilience to some of the effects of climate change.
How Smart Landscape Designs Boost Your Business
It's important for landscape designers to point out the ways that a professionally designed outdoor space can also deliver real benefits.
How to Define Your Lines
One of the key questions to ask clients when putting together a design brief is if they prefer straight or curved lines in the proposed layout.
How to Solve Your Biggest Outdoor Lighting Problems
In this article we explain the different forms of landscape lighting and how they can achieve a harmonious backyard.
Do You Know How Vast The AEC Industry Really Is?
In this article we've highlighted our guest posts because we want to inform you of other industry blogs and introduce you to some of the various topics that exist within the AEC industry.
Which is Better: Stamped Concrete or Paved Stones?
Discover the pros and cons of stamped concrete and paving stones.
Is There a Secret Room Behind Mount Rushmore?
Learn about the secret room that has been hiding behind Mount Rushmore for years.