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Melbourne based landscape architects and Landscaping Victoria member Australian Quality Landscape Landscape Design in conjunction with Sinatra Murphy Landscape Architects have been commissioned to design and build the Vietnam Veterans’ Commemorative Service Wall in Seymour Victoria.
Working with the Vietnam Veterans Association and Mitchell Shire Council, this exciting project is being developed through a series of work shops with the veterans commemorative wall committee. The Veteran’s story will be presented on 106 glass panels 83 metres long that includes over 60,000 names of those who served plus images and timelines. The wall is anticipated to be completed this month and officially opened in March 2013.
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Tagged AQL Landscapes, Landscaping Victoria, Vietnam Veterans Walk
Robert Boyle Landscapes’ Ivanhoe project was the big winner at this year’s Victorian Landscape Awards winning the prestigious Landscape of the Year plus the Landscape Design over 150m2 Award, Plants in the Landscape Award and Residential Landscape Construction over $300,000.
Judges felt that this project, set on a large riverfront property in Ivanhoe exemplified every outstanding quality of a professional landscape and one that the industry can be proud of as the industry’s top award winner.
For all the winners and more details on this project go to www.landscapingvictoria.com.au
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Tagged awards, garden, landscape, landscape design and construction, Landscaping Victoria
Landscaping Victoria and NGIV have joined with the Sports Turf Association to form the Victorian Urban Green Alliance whose core mission is to influence green space policy to enhance the urban environment. This Alliance forms the start of an inclusive partnership with like minded groups to build a bigger stronger voice for issues that affect our industries and work on joint initiatives to promote the greater benefits of urban green space and our value to healthy living. The group will be looking to further partners to sign on to our core belief that “Green Space Delivers Healthy Living”. This is a great initiative that will benefit the broader horticulture industry in Victoria.
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Tagged green spaces, healthy living, Landscaping Victoria, NGIV, Urban Green Space, victoria
Judges announced the four finalists of the 2013 Plantmark MIFGS Student Design Competition this week. The four finalists Lee Bailey, Meg Geary, Renee Visentin and Peta Donaldson were shortlisted from a strong field of entries to have their designs constructed for the 2013 Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show. The theme for the competition was the Bush Fire Suburban Garden drawn from the CFA’s Landscaping for Bushfire Guide. Congratulations to all entrants and finalists.
I attended a stakeholders meeting of the 4 water retail authorities; South East Water, Yarra Valley Water, City West Water and Melbourne Water on Tuesday this week to hear more about a proposed draft Water and Demand Strategy that is being considered by the Victorian Government that will plan Melbourne’s water needs for the next 50 years. It is fantastic that such an initiative is taking place to secure our water needs well into the future. The draft strategy also acknowledges that water use is linked to liveability and that better water management strategies will ensure that gardens, parks and sporting grounds can be maintained under any future proposed water restrictions.
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Tagged city west water, garden, government, south east water, victoria, water, water management strategies