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. ...
22 Aug 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...
20 Aug 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...
13 Aug 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...
18 Jun 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...