Design Hunter is  looking for high calibre landscapes to feature on

Given your interest in organic recycling, soil health, carbon sequestration, plant growth, land management and/or rehabilitation, this free information session given by Angus Campbell of the Recycled Organic Unit will discuss the latest version of the AS4454 Composts, Soil Conditioners and Mulches and how you can make it work for your business.

Controlling the quality of Composts, Soil Conditioners, and Mulches improves product consistency, adds value, reduces risk and allows for the development of fit for purpose materials that takes the guess work out of dealing with recycled organic materials.

The newly revised standard has significant changes including tightening of specifications and controls the addition of product categories and a clearer format.

Attendance of the seminar is a must for anyone with an interest in including:

Composters

Understand the new standard requirements and how to achieve them.  Learn how a greater level of control of the compost process can add value to your products, improve operational management and reduce the risk of product failure.

Compost & Mulch Users, Purchasers or Specifiers

Specifying materials that comply with Australian Standard is the smart way to manage risk and demonstrate due diligence. With the addition product categories, is important to understand the differences and to ensure supply of the product that’s right for you.  Utilising the standard helps to communicate the requirements of internal stakeholders with suppliers.  Comparing compliant products allows for a like with like comparison to make the best value judgement.

New to Composting

If you have been considering starting a compost program this is a perfect introduction.  You will better understanding of the composting process, questions to ask, considerations to make, helping to do it right the first time.    Meet other members in the composting community to understand

Check out our website

For background information on composting and its applications, please see our Compost for Soils website, www.compostforsoils.com.au

Please feel free to pass this invitation onto others that you think may be interested in attending.

For more information, see the attached flyer or contact Darren Fahey on 0414224110.

We look forward to seeing you on the day.

Darren Fahey

Market & Industry Development Officer Compost NSW

M: 0414 224 110

E: darren@wmaa.asn.au

To get you started, visit the stories of our previous winners and become inspired.

Applications can be a simple, brief written report (maximum 500 words) but it’s a good idea to explain your project using other types of presentation too, like a powerpoint presentation, a model or set of plans, a slide show or a picture portfolio. An independent judging panel (which includes TAFE and industry representatives) will develop a short list for the next stage of judging.   Your report should show information like:   1) why the project is important, unique or different   2) an explanation as to how the project might be built or developed   3) how it might benefit the broader horticulture industry   4) how you would use the award funds to undertake or extend the project.     If your project wins through to the final round, you’ll get the opportunity to present it to a panel of industry judges.But don’t be worried about that, as there’ll be training and assistance in media, marketing and presentation skills for all the finalists.   It’s so simple to WIN that $10,000 prize. Entries are open from May 2012 until AUGUST 31st, 2012. Just fill in the entry form and upload your project IDEA with information in the form of a brief report, photos, plans.

http://www.younghortofyearaward.com/

NOTICE OF NEXT EVENT AT THE FIELD OF MARS

RESERVE AND WILDLIFE REFUGE:

Saturday 2pm, 28 April

Turpentine Ironbark Forests – Ironing out the Creases:

A classification system for shale forests within the Sydney Basin Sydney’s shale forests have been mostly cleared for farms and timber. Remaining forests are often in isolated remnants and are considered endangered. Though protected under Commonwealth and State Threatened species legislation, classifying these often small, fragmented forest remnants has been sometimes confusing. A recent across-Sydney mapping project classified the different types of shale vegetation and our guest speaker, Roger Lembit, will describe the processes and methodology involved in the development of this mapping project. There will be a special emphasis on the Ryde area which has been one of the most difficult to classify given its location on the edge of the Cumberland Plain. Roger has been a member of the National Parks Association of NSW for over thirty years. He has also worked for the Nature Conservation Council of NSW and The Wilderness Society. He now works as an independent environmental consultant involved in a series of vegetation surveys and monitoring projects focused on the western Blue Mountains. He has particular expertise in flora surveys, vegetation dynamics and conservation of rare or threatened plant species. He has extensive experience in flora surveys across New South Wales.

For bookings and further information: Cathy 9817 4935 or email: rhhffps@gmail.com. Entry is via a gold coin donation.

Tuesday 8 May | 8:00am to 12:30pm | 1099 Old Northern Rd Dural

Pre-seminar refreshments and substantial morning tea

Free of charge, open to Landscape Architects, Designers, Contractors, Maintenance Professionals and Councils

 David Wilson-Dowse
Edge Training

Running a successful business requires a combination of technical skill and knowledge supported by sharp communication in dealing with internal and external clients.

Communicating and selling yourself and your brand, developing your staff to execute this effectively can be a real challenge.

Jonathan Garner
Puddleton Cottage Gardens

Gardens are alive and ever changing. A great garden goes beyond plant selection and basic maintenance – its about long term vision, horticultural technique and response to the gardens evolving state.

Jonathan will discuss a number of advanced plant treatments to enhance the garden space.

Plant Specialists

Bringing together plant specialists from around the country to deliver a snapshot in their particular area of expertise focusing on plant varieties suited to the greater Sydney area.

This will be a unique opportunity to access a wealth of knowledge that even Google can’t match….

BROMELIADS Presented by

Bruce Dunston

Greenstock Nurseries (QLD)

PROTEA FAMILY Presented by

David Matthews

Proteaflora Nursery (VIC)

BAMBOOS Presented by

Chris Cusack

Bamboo World Nursery (North NSW)

UNDERUTILISED PERENNIALS Presented By Rob Willis

Belrose Nursery (NSW)

Online Registration: http://www.Swiftpage7.com/Alpine_Nurseries.kenb/SurveyHorticulturalMasterclass2012/Survey.aspx

AILDM’s National Design Awards are now open. 

To carry on from the huge success of the 2011 Awards, it is time once again to celebrate the skills and experience of AILDM members by finding the very best garden and landscape designs and showcasing them to the media and public.

There are eight categories you can enter in the 2012 awards. They are for landscape management, design of constructed gardens and landscapes including residential, commercial, institutional and environmental , as well as one specifically for plant design. There is also an award for a recent graduate of landscape design.

There will be an award for each category plus a special overall award (Allan Correy Award for Design Excellence) for the most outstanding entry.

Winners of these prestigious awards receive  publicity in AILDM’s Journal – Landscape Outlook,  the E newsletter as well as other media outlets where AILDmMs news is published.  Universal Magazines (AILDM’s Media Partner) also publishes an article covering the award winners in  Backyard Garden Design Ideas.  There are also  numerous industry publications  which usually seek out the winners for  feature articles.  This amount  of publicity for your business is priceless.

Enter now and be Australia’s best landscape designer or manager!

Closing date Monday, 30 April 2012  at 5pm.

Please refer to www.aildm.com.au for entry  form and guidelines and rules information.

Technical Tour Secretariat PO Box 122, Burwood NSW 1805

Phone: +61 2 9744 5252

Fax: +61 2 9747 8366

Registration Now Available!

Thursday, 29th March, 2012

Harrington Grove Country Club

1 Forestgrove Drive,  Harrington Park

9:00AM until 4:00PM

A major challenge associated with water sensitive urban design (WSUD) is that as a new form of infrastructure, asset owners, including state entities, private asset owners and most often Local Councils are yet to develop processes for managing these assets. This Technical Tour, being offered by Stormwater NSW and sponsored by ESD Landscape Contractors, will showcase highlights and challenges facing the implementation of WSUD in large scale urban development projects.

First hand insight into the background, context, planning, design and construction issues of WSUD will be examined at each of the following sites – Elizabeth Hills, Gregory Hills, Oran Park, Harrington Grove and Grasmere. This Technical Tour of ground-breaking WSUD application is not to be missed!

The Technical Tour will demonstrate how WSUD works alongside natural habitat systems to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services. Our Presenters, Robert Griffith of ESD Landscapes, Robert Peterson of Brown Consulting and Mal Brown of STORM_Consulting, will lead delegates on a behind the scenes tour of WSUD application in large scale urban development and will provide a first hand insight into what’s hot and what’s not in WSUD.   Technical Tour Sites   Elizabeth Hills

ESD Landscape Contractors

The rehabilitation works at Elizabeth Hills are aimed to improve biodiversity and ecological processes in Hinchinbrook Creek. After a period of time it is hoped that there will be an increase in abundance and diversity of biota in the water of the macroinvertebrate family groups.

Water quality should improve to allow establishment of species that are more sensitive, such as those rated higher in the Australian pollution sensitivity grades. This in turn may aid in providing necessary links in the food webs for other threatened species. In this project, stormwater is managed by natural systems and provides beautiful amenity to increase property values. When properties were put on the market they were all sold in a few hours due to the riparian aesthetic value.

Gregory Hills

Brown Consulting

Gregory Hills will be the second project site visted on this Technical Tour. Further information on this site will be made available in the coming days.

Oran Park

Brown Consulting

A stormwater management strategy was developed to ensure that the proposed development adequately considered and managed flooding within local tributaries and main reaches of South Creek. The proposal included small detention storages associated with water quality improvements that mitigated erosion and ensured ecologically sustainable creeks throughout the site. Larger detention storages were proposed to ensure that flooding in South Creek does not worsen as a result of the development. The stormwater strategy included the hydrological and hydraulic modelling of over 300,000m3 of detention storage.

Harrington Grove

Brown Consulting

In early 2007 a Development Proposal for the proposed augmentation and extension of The Harrington Parkway, a proposed Community/Country Club, and the area covering Campbell Creek (and Tributaries 2 and 3), upstream of the existing Harrington Park residential environs. The stormwater management strategy proposed for The Campbell Creek Rehabilitation and Stabilisation Works project site is functional; delivers the required technical performance; avoids environmental degradation and pressure on downstream ecosystems and infrastructure; and provides for a ‘soft’ sustainable  solution for stormwater management within the catchment.

Once the rehabilitated, and relocated creek and trunk drainage corridor as detailed herein, will lend not only aesthetic benefits to the overall Precinct, but also provide opportunities for development of biodiversity, critical habitat, (both floral and faunal), whilst still maintaining a sound mechanism for conveyance of critical storm flows. It is envisioned that after final completion and stabilisation of the reprofiled banks with the nominated revegetation treatments the banks will serve to form an effective riparian and wildlife connectivity corridor throughout the remediated creek precinct and will serve to mimic a natural creek corridor in form and function.

Grasmere

STORM_Consulting

On rural land at Grasmere west of Camden, two developers proposed adjoining residential subdivisions. The first adopted a GPT and wetland basin approach to managing stormwater quality and quantity. The second, Bamburgh Properties, adopted a WSUD-style approach. Bamburgh Properties needed to incorporate two existing farm dams and the subdivision was designed with these as a community and environmental feature. The treatment train comprised pit trap GPTs and two Hydrocon bioretention basins.

This site is interesting to compare the two adopted approaches in relation to land take, aesthetics, maintenance and monitoring. The WSUD approach highlights the importance of timing in relation to connecting up bioretention systems, and of sediment control during construction. The WSUD system has been handed over to Camden Council with water quality and environmental values monitoring showing that it is particularly robust.

Registration Fees

Technical Tour registration includes arrival tea and coffee, morning tea, lunch and supplementary material for each site on the Technical Tour.

SIA Members – $165 Non Members – $185

Registration will be available at the Harrington Grove Country Club from 8:30AM and the coach will be departing at 9:00AM sharp. There is ample parking on the Harrington Grove Country Club grounds for delegates.

Registration Form   To download the Technical Tour Registration Form, please click on the PDF icon link provided below.

Technical Tour Registration Form (download)

Barangaroo Headland Park

Plant Procurement, Soils Specification and the Barangaroo Delivery Authority

“Barangaroo’s Headland Park will be a spectacular place for everyone to enjoy.
It will provide a new vantage point for Sydneysiders and visitors alike to watch the action on Sydney Harbour
at the same time as they soak up the atmosphere of six hectares of lush, naturalistic parkland.

http://http://www.barangaroo.com/

AILA NSW invites you to this workshop, brought to you by our platinum sponsor Andreasens Green and the
Barangaroo Delivery Authority. The new Headland Park will be constructed as a naturalistic park on previous
industrial waterfront land. To create a naturalistic landscape requires considerable research and understanding
of natural systems.

This workshop will provide participants with a comprehensive summary of the myriad of technical aspects that
will be required to procure and deliver this new waterfront open space. It will include discussion overlooking
the site from the BDA offices and a site visit of Barangaroo Headland including the platform overlooking the stone
prototype

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Speakers include:

Stuart Pittendrigh FAILA

With 45 years practice experience and a notable project base Stuart Pittendrigh retains a hands on approach to
landscape design, project direction and involvement. Stuart appears regularly as an expert witness in court matters
where his successful representation is founded on his many years of experience in broad aspects of Landscape
Architecture, Horticulture and Arboricultural matters. Stuart continues to make a major contribution to the profession
and practice of Landscape Architecture, Horticultural Consulting & Arboricultural Assessment & Reporting. Stuart for the
past 5 years has judged the annual design awards for AILDM and for the past 31 years he has judged the finals awards for
the Landscape Contractors Association of NSW (LCA).

As the Horticultural Consultant for the project appointed by the BDA Stuart has worked in collaboration with
Adrian Pilton and Adam Robilliard of JWP Architects/Landscape Architects, Peter Walker of PWP California and
Simon Leake of SESL. Stuart will be speaking with regard to the approach taken and the selection of the
planting species to be used in the development of the Barangaroo Headland Park.

Simon Leake, Sydney Environmental & Soil Laboratory

Simon is Principal and Director of SESL Australia. Established in 1984 SESL and
Simon soon established themselves in the landscape soils technology area providing soil reuse and reconstruction
advice to many major projects including Darling Harbour, Sydney Olympic Park, Twin Creeks residential and golf course,
Second Ponds Creek and many others. SESL and Simon provide advice and testing to all the major soil suppliers in NSW and
some interstate. Simon sat on three Australian Standards committees and for nearly 10 years on the Royal Botanic Gardens
trust committee. Simon is a frequent presenter, lecturer and writer in the area of urban and landscape soil science.
The ideas used at Barangaroo have developed out of work with Hassell and Peter Walker at Sydney Olympic Park.

Tim Carroll “ Project Manager
Andreasens Green Wholesale Nurseries

As a qualified Horticulturist and Arborist Tim has implemented a specific Street
Tree production program at Andreasens Green and oversees the training of all staff for tree production and
maintenance – particularly to the Natspec standard. Tim has gained a wide range of experience through his various roles
in Amenity Horticulture and the Wholesale Nursery Industry which spans over 18 years.

As Project Manager for Andreasens Green, he has exposure to many large scale landscape, government and council projects
with his specialty in advanced tree supply. His current focus is as Project Manager for the Barangaroo Headland Park
Plant Material Supply. Tim will discuss some of the logistics in the supply requirements and the production of stock for
Barangaroo Headland Park.

Darren Mason – Chief Operations Officer
Andreasens Green Wholesale Nurseries

Known across the nursery and landscape Industries, Darren Mason’s name is synonymous with that of Andreasens Green.
Qualified in Horticulture, Landscape Design and more recently in Business Management, Darren’s experience with
Andreasens Green spans over 29 years.

Darren is a strong advocate of Natspec Standards. As Chief Operations Officer for Andreasens Green, Darren embraced the
specification in its infancy, assisting the author with information for inclusion in the first edition in 1996 and the
revised edition in 2003. Darren continues to support what is known as the industry standard and ensures that his Team
applies these criteria to its plant production processes.

Darren will provide an overview of the role Andreasens Green is playing in the supply of plant material to
the Barangaroo Headland Park.

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Date : Thursday 22 March

Programme

8.30am Registration BDA – Kent Street Office

9.00am Welcome by AILA / Andreasens Green
Introduction: Phil Paris – BDA – re background into project
Speaker: Stuart Pittendrigh FAILA – re plant selection
Speaker: Simon Leake, SESL – soil specification
Speaker: Tim Carroll & Darren Mason, Andreasens Green – Plant procurement

10:15 am Morning coffee break – light refreshments kindly provided by Andreasens Green

10.45 am Leave BDA office for guided tour of Barangaroo Headland site including the platform overlooking the stone prototype

12.00 Site tour finish
Event Concludes

Venue

Barangaroo Delivery Authority office
Level 21, AON/Maritime Trade Towers, 201 Kent Street, Sydney
& site visit

Time 8.30am- 12.00pm

THIS IS A FREE EVENT

Book at nsw@aila.org.au with names of all participants

Attention to detail and a good work ethic are a must, as are a good eye for levels and shapes.
Must be physically fit and have a good sense of balance.

Job duties to include:
- All aspects of general garden maintenance.
- Precision and high end-pruning jobs.
- Remedial landscaping and planting/transplanting.
- Work within and manage garden maintenance teams.
- Work in compliance with OH+S Regulations.
- Maintain quality client relations.

In addition:
- Must have a valid driver’s licence.
- Be punctual, presentable, positive and well mannered.
- Non-smokers preferred.

Start on $22 – $25p/hr depending on abilities.
Flexible days/hours, with good future prospects.

Please email mauro@alwaysgreener.info  with a full resume, and list what experience you have.

If you suit the profile, you will be contacted for an interview.

Thanks and good luck!

You’ve asked for it and we have delivered, back by popular demand Costa Georgiadis from the hit SBS show Costa’s Garden Odyssey and now the new host of
Garden Australia on ABC!

· The Greenwood Hotel

· 36 Blue Street, Sydney, NSW 2060

· Friday 2nd March 2012

· 7:30pm

· Entry with gold coin donation to charity

· RSVP – Either via this Facebook event or via emailing me or matthew.carroll@ngia.com.au by 29th February2012

For more information go along to our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/events/148943245225527/

Join Costa Georgiadis at the Greenwood Hotel on Plant/Life Balance Day, March 2, as part of the launch of 2012′s message … ‘More Trees Please!’ …

Places are strictly limited so please RSVP now to avoid disappointment.

MIFGS NSW/VIC NextGen
We are also having a joint NSW/VIC NextGen function in Victoria to coincide with MIFGS on the 31st of March with the first 20 people from NSW will get free entry into MIFGS, see attached invite if you are interested in attending!
Please contact me if you have any questions or queries!
Regards

Maroun Maait
02 9652 0300
02 9652 0100
0412 267 567
sales@treemovals.com.au
www.treemovals.com.au