Identifies and explores all aspects of developing better planting designs on any scale, raising awareness of the essential elements and encouraging readers to look with fresh eyes, to create anew. Guides the reader through all the stages of designing a new garden and helps to visualise the garden through an understanding of space, light, earth form, structures and vegetation. It discusses the choosing of plants, their form and shape, balancing plant types, fire and vegetation, design and form.
Details how to create and maintain a sustainable outdoor space, offering tips, guidance and step-by-step projects designed to help you lead a more low-impact lifestyle. Covers every aspect of the garden, from how to create a space and draw up a plan for your sustainable garden from scratch, to advice on boundaries and fences, and guidance on how to ethically source materials to make your garden as environmentally friendly as it is beautiful.
Covers vegetables, fruits, herbs and edible flowers. Practical advice and detailed instructions on plant propagation and care, including organic pest and weed control, efficient watering methods, improving soil fertility by making your own fertilizer, companion planting, aquaponics, hydroponics, wicking beds and achieving high yield in small spaces.
An invaluable reference for botanists and horticulturalists. Section 1 gives an historical account of the significant changes in the ways that plants have been known and named. Section 2 comprises a glossary of generic and specific plant names, and components of these.
A powerful account on how the revival of cultural burning practices, and improved 'reading' of country, could help to restore our land. Developed over many generations, this knowledge shows clearly that Australia actually needs fire. Moreover, fire is an important part of a wholistic approach to the environment, and when burning is done in a carefully considered manner, this ensures proper land care and healing
The topic of Aboriginal use and perception of plants is vast and therefore far too large for full treatment of all regions in a single volume. Nevertheless, this book offers an overview to assist readers appreciate the depth of indigenous ecological knowledge about the environment.
Covers all aspects of managing natural area restoration projects. Includes resilience, mapping, describing and assessing vegetation. Techniques for managing weeds, fire and responding to climate change.
The practice of ecological restoration, firmly grounded in the science of restoration ecology, provides governments, organizations, and landowners a means to halt degradation and restore function and resilience to ecosystems stressed by climate change and other pressures on the natural world. Provides the latest emerging theories and ideas in the science of restoration ecology.
Provides advice on working through applications to animal ethics committees, presents general operating procedures for a range of wildlife research methods, and details animal welfare considerations for all Australian taxa. Supports best practice research methods and helps readers navigate the institutional animal care approval process.
Provides a strategic assessment of the vulnerability of Australia's biodiversity (primarily terrestrial) to climate change, and suggestions on the ways that policy and management can deal with these. Discussion of the history and evolution of Australia's biodiversity, ultimate drivers of current change and observed changes in diversity at the genetic, species and ecosystem levels.
Includes case studies and best practices used to address impacts related to climate change across a broad spectrum of species and habitats--from coastal krill and sea urchins to prairie grass and mountain bumblebees. Will prove an indispensable guide to students, scientists, and professionals engaged in conservation and resource management.
Provides the latest information on restoring woodlands across Australia, with particular emphasis on plantings as habitat for wildlife. Key topics include why it is important to revegetate, where to plant, how to prepare a site, how to maintain and manage plantings, and how they change over time.
A comprehensive, practical guide to 60 introduced pest animal species present in Australia. It contains descriptive information to identify each species in the field, including distinctive physical characteristics, size, weight, coloration, diet, breeding behavior, habitat preferences, and information about footprints, dung, scats and audible animal calls. Each species profile is accompanied by practical management information, maps and high-quality photographs.
Includes case studies of successful and unsuccessful pest management strategies and covers a range of topics, including the history of pest management, current best practice principles, and guidelines for planning and applying strategic pest management approaches to effectively reduce pest damage.
All the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the basics of drafting, lettering, freehand drawing and conceptual diagramming, perspective drawing, section elevations, and more. It also features carefully sequenced exercises, a complete file of graphic symbols for sections and perspectives, and a handy appendix of conversions and equivalents.
Introduces the foundational concepts needed to effectively integrate space and form in landscape design through concepts, typologies, and rudimentary principles of form and space. Provides the core concepts necessary for designers to shape functional landscapes.
Details how to create and maintain a sustainable outdoor space, offering tips, guidance and step-by-step projects designed to help you lead a more low-impact lifestyle. Covers every aspect of the garden, from how to create a space and draw up a plan for your sustainable garden from scratch, to advice on boundaries and fences, and guidance on how to ethically source materials to make your garden as environmentally friendly as it is beautiful.
Identifies and explores all aspects of developing better planting designs on any scale, raising awareness of the essential elements and encouraging readers to look with fresh eyes, to create anew. Guides the reader through all the stages of designing a new garden and helps to visualise the garden through an understanding of space, light, earth form, structures and vegetation. It discusses the choosing of plants, their form and shape, balancing plant types, fire and vegetation, design and form.
Discusses three major areas of landscape architectural detailing: aesthetics, function, and constructibility. Richly illustrated examples accompany concise discussions of a varied blend of landscape design/detailing issues such as water movement, soil environments, articulating structures and construction assembles, life cycle costing, sustainability, health and safety, and more.
Recounts milestones in Landscape Architecture in Australia such as the creation of Melbourne's public parks, the acclaimed private gardens designed by Edna Walling and Paul Sorensen, the landscaping of Canberra's broad open spaces, and the reclaiming of Sydney's harbour foreshore culminating in the redevelopment of Olympic Park.
Offers an introduction to landform and the language of its design, and explores the site engineering concepts essential to practicing landscape architecture today from interpreting landform and contour lines, to designing horizontal and vertical road alignments, to construction sequencing, to designing and sizing storm water management systems.
For a hundred years, pencil, pen, markers, and watercolor have been the principal tools of representation for landscape architects and urban planners. Today, those hand-powered aids have been replaced by computers and Computer-aided design (CAD). This book bridges the gap between the traditional analog and the new digital tools and shows you how to.
Covers the basic cognitive processes that drive visual perception and expression, incorporating observation, memory, and rendering into a creative whole. It unites imaginative vision with fundamental architectural principles to cover the traditional basics of drawing, including line, shape, tone, form etc.
Explains how SketchUp works and what to do with it. Filled with tutorials, you will learn how to approach modeling site plans, buildings and site elements: from modeling each of these exterior environment elements to piecing them together to generate a singular and expressive model. The book is useful for all SketchUp proficiency levels including beginners, hobbyists, and professionals.
Provides instructions for creating 3D photoreal graphics for SketchUp models using integrated rendering programs. It serves as a beginner rendering manual and reference guide to further develop rendering skills.
A single-source guide to harnessing the power of 3D visualization tools for analysis and representation of landscapes. The text focuses on digital modeling methods that can be used to express rich environments using digital tools to develop, composite, and animate scenes.
Integrated pest management (IPM) is a sustainable approach to manage pests through biological, cultural, physical and chemical means in order to minimize economic and environmental injury caused by such pests. This book presents a series of review chapters on ecologically-based IPM. Topics covered range from the ecological effects of chemical control practices to the ecology of predator-prey and parasitoid-host systems.
Provides up-to-date information on the different types of application techniques and how they should be used to ensure efficient and effective pest control.
The field’s most complete, up-to-date text on plant propagation. It now contains color figures throughout, promoting learning and making it an even more useful working text and reference. It also contains extensive updates reflecting the latest commercial techniques and understanding of propagation biology.
A comprehensive, practical guide to the various methods of propagation suitable for a wide range of trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, bulbs and tender plants. Chapters cover seeds, cuttings, layering, division, grafting, bulbs and even micropropagation. Includes step-by-step photographic guides, advice on plant material/time and method selection, appropriate propagation environments and aftercare, and pest and disease challenges.
Chapter 5: Propagation
Explains traditional skills tried and tested by generations of National Trust gardeners and reinterprets them for the modern garden - large and small. Handy tips and step-by-step guides, it covers all aspects of gardening.
Topics covered include choosing materials for potting mixes, fertiliser, efficient use of water, drainage, salinity, turf management, soil-borne diseases, hydroponics, the preparation of soils for landscape planting, green roofs and their media requirements, and recent innovations in urban horticulture.
Explains the fundamentals of soil, including the main types, their key characteristics, the implications for different plants and how the soil can be improved. Techniques for assessing soil health are described step-by-step, with recommendations for ways this can be enhanced. There is a chapter on container growing media, patio gardening and the use of raised beds.
A practical reference to better understand a range of soil test methods and interpret the results of these tests. It also contains a comprehensive description of the soil properties relevant to many environmental and natural land resource issues and investigations.
An introduction to soil science that addresses many new developments to this ever-changing field while maintaining coverage of established research. Covers basic scientific aspects of soil from its physical, chemical, and biological properties to its formation. Essential for anyone studying soil science as well as professionals.
Provides a current and comprehensive introduction to soil science for students in the fields of environmental and agricultural science, ecology, soil and land management, natural resource management and environmental engineering. Focuses on the fundamental concepts of how soils function and how this functioning is vital to productive and environmentally benign soil use.
A practical guide to soil tests. The first three chapters review the general principles and concepts of soil testing, factors affecting soil test interpretation and soil sampling and handling procedures. The next two chapters describe morphological indicators of soil and include colour plates of major Australian agricultural soils.These are followed by a series of chapters which present soil test calibration data for individual elements or a related group of tests such as the range of soil tests used to interpret soil acidity.
A comprehensive soil manual for farmers and horticulture advisers covering Fert$mart planning, principles of plant growth, nutrition and productive soils, fertiliser selection and planning. Pubished by the Department of Primary Industries, State of Victoria.
A comprehensive reference covering the selection and maintenance of grasses used in sports and amenity areas in all areas. Includes keys, descriptions and photographs, sowing, stolonising and mowing heights. A grass's tolerance to high temperature, frost, drought, shade, wet soil, salinity, low soil fertility, wear and close mowing is given in a table with each aspect rated.
Expert coverage of basic turfgrass science and all aspects of practical care. Offers the latest information on growth, nutrition, herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides, as well as discussing shade stress and light requirements and the benefits of turf.
A comprehensive work on the plant-eating insects and mites of the grass and non-grass species currently maintained as ornamental lawns and sports turf playing surfaces throughout Australia, the South Pacific and South-East Asia. Provides an industry reference for the identification of pests affecting the roots, stems and leaves of turfgrass and control of these species through integrated pest management. It contains information on the distribution, ecology and biology of pests and how to monitor them.
Brings together hundreds of solutions and best practices to help you manage turfgrass weeds, diseases, and insects more effectively. Discusses the concept of integrated pest management, incorporating cultural, biological, and chemical control measures.
Covers all stages of the water pathway from the source to delivery into the plant root zone. Major topics include system planning, estimating water demand, water quality, irrigation systems, soil management and irrigation performance evaluation.
Features basic and applied information on available grasses including selection and use; applied turfgrass physiology; soils and soil amendments; environmental concerns; and comprehensive information on turfgrass physiology, plant nutrition, turf fertilizers, and water management. It discusses managing turf diseases, insects, and weeds; turf cultural practices; managing greens and tees as well as corporate course management strategies.
Provides the most up to date information on maintaining and operating a golf course. Includes advice on maintaining consistent bunkers, sand top-dressing and aerifying, technologies, pesticide storage, and other emerging technologies, as well as mowing techniques for greens, fairways, and tees-and much more.
A comprehensive reference for professionals who are responsible for the design, construction, renovation, and maintenance of athletic facilities. Contains illustrative examples of specific design elements of the most popular sports facilities, including layout, grading, irrigation, and drainage, best practices and techniques.