In Old English, the second month was sometimes known as kale-monath, which means 'cabbage month'. Stories for cabbage month start now!
Read moreProjects: Nearing Completion at the Bottle Tree Garden →
We've been working with wonderful clients to create space for a productive garden and improve pool fencing on their steeply sloping site.
Planting has just been completed - aren't these Blechnum 'Silver Lady' ferns beautiful!
We'll keep you updated as it matures.
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Read moreParks & Gardens: A Stroll through the City Botanic Gardens
Cycling through the City Botanic Gardens, 1896.
Last week I was delighted to take a group of conference visitors on a tour through Brisbane's City Botanic Gardens.
I'd read a book about the first curator, Walter Hill, and picked up a few interesting facts about the gardens over the years, but this was a great opportunity to delve in more detail into what the Queensland Heritage Register describes as "the most significant, non-Aboriginal cultural landscape in Queensland, having a continuous horticultural history since 1828, without any significant loss of land area or change in use over that time."
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Read moreWhere the Streets Have No Name. Or Streets... →
The unrelenting Manhattan street grid is a New York landmark as well known as Central Park. Over the past year or so, four marble blocks have been unearthed in the park.
They are original markers from the early 1800s that indicate where the city grid would have continued its march, had the park not been created.
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Read moreUnder an Orange Sky →
Last year I took this (terrible) photo of Lucas Patchett and Nicholas Marchesi speaking at a conference. They were talking about Orange Sky Laundry, a free mobile laundry service for the homeless that they established after hearing about the number of people who were homeless in Australia on our last census night.
With vans containing a couple of industrial washing machines and dryers, Nick, Lucas and their growing team of volunteers travel to public parks and towns affected by natural disasters to wash and dry clothes, and chat with their new friends.
Last week these incredible young men were named Young Australians of the Year for 2016.
Click to read more about Orange Sky Laundry.
Read moreAustralia's Longest Rammed Earth Wall →
I reckon you'd consider giving up the desk job to muster cattle, if it meant you got to stay in this award winning, rammed-earthed, green-roofed accommodation building in Western Australia.
Image: Edward Birch
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