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...

10 November, 2014

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...

06 November, 2014

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 November, 2014

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...

05 November, 2014

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...

30 September, 2014

Bee Swarm Removal

I have had a lot of phone calls over the past 2 weeks for the removal of bee swarms. ...

29 September, 2014

Cockatoo Island Campground and Fire Pit

Elke has been working recently with Sydney Harbour Federation Trust on an upgrade to the Cockatoo Island Fire Pit and...

22 August, 2014

Australian Garden Show Sydney: Elke’s talks

[caption id="attachment_873" align="alignleft" width="180"] Ant predating on wax scale on citrus[/caption] Elke will be speaking on Thursday, Friday and Saturday 4th...

20 August, 2014

Soil forms the basis of every landscape project

Village Green reviews and posts an article about our soil specification book. For the full article: click here   Simon Leake, originally an...

13 August, 2014

Gaining back the Natural Capital in Soil

[caption id="attachment_580" align="alignleft" width="180"] elke_soil pH test[/caption] I highly recommend this Landline video segment. It is called "Toil and Soil' and is...

18 June, 2014