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Times are tough and one of the first items to have a belt tightened is landscape. Here are some ideas to lessen your financial load and maximize your landscape outcomes: 1. Design it right the first time Having a design stops you driving blind, it’s the map that get’s you there. Sure there maybe some […]
wiki commons image Terracing your landscape can have some great advantages. For one thing, terraces hold back rainfall, reducing runoff and allowing rain to soak into the ground. They can minimize or maximize exposure to sunlight depending on the slope, allowing more consistent growth of plants and lawns. Regarding maintenance and mowing, a terrace is […]
My clients’ desire was to get more use and enjoyment out of their townhouse courtyard garden. Timber seating and sitting edges work to create a more attractive and useful space, while potted plants can be enjoyed and maintained without seeing their pots.
This residence in West End wanted a native garden frontage and yard that replaced the awkward hard to mow and maintain grass areas with something special. Exclusively using tubestock and native cultivars, the grass areas have gone completely, leaving a no mow low water use front garden that uses endemic plants only. Not only will […]
My client had a deteriorating timber retaining wall, and received quotes for its removal and replacement. Choking on the quotes received, they turned to Lowndes Landscapes. For way less than the received quotes, not only was the timber replaced with hard wearing corten steel retaining, but there was ample budget to replace and rejuvenate the […]
South east Queensland is home to a diverse and stunning array of habitats and plant communities, from rainforests to mountain heaths, coastal communities and everything in-between. While bush regenerators and landcare groups use commercial tubestock plants to repair and restore these communities, did you know you can use these same plants to recreate these re-wilding […]
There’s something innate about most human’s love of clean green lawn. Perhaps it is linked to our distant past on the high plains of Africa, like this is the ultimate luxury savannah imaginable. Safe and soft. To get more of that high plains feeling, here are some design tips I feel are essential to a […]
Set in the ‘Beverly Hills’ of Moorooka, this late 1960’s mid century house exudes the charm and optimism typical of it’s age. The clients approached with a specific design brief- to create a modern garden that would reflect the innovative nature of the original house design. Furthermore the client had a preference for native, and […]
With the BCC now allowing verge planting, my client, who runs a highly rated ecology based architectural practice, needed a safe and clear pedestrian access way through their planted verge. The solution came by using galvanized steel edging to build up a level path and installing Tiff Tuff sports turf, a hard wearing and shade […]
To fulfill a development condition to plant a visual buffer around their solar farm, the University of Queensland commissioned Lowndes Landscapes to plant 30,000 tubestock trees at their solar farm at Sladevale, just outside of Warwick on the Southern Darling Downs, Queensland. The trees and shrubs are a mixture of local endemic species consisting of […]
