RYDE TAFE STUDENT EXHIBITION

Ryde TAFE is holding an end of year student exhibition on Tuesday, 9 December 2008 on campus. Student design work will be showcased to highlight the breadth of content covered by the Landscape Diploma and the quality of documentation being produced.

Students and staff will be on hand from 5 – 8 pm in

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Free eBooks by Tom Turner

Two eBooks by Tom Turner are available for free digital download in October, 2008 – to celebrate the 10th birthday of the Gardenvisit.com website.  See www.gardenvisit.com/ebooks

The eBooks are:

The Principles of Garden Design by Tom Turner

(ISBN 978-0-9542306-2-3, 45 pages, 130 illustrations,

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The Good Earth – Sustainable Gardening

Member Georgina Martyn co-hosts The Good Earth a great resource show on sustainable gardening. As well as seasonal gardening tips each month The Good Earth offers in depth information on topics like eco-friendly practices, indigenous plants and water wise designs, as well as organic and bio-dynamic gardening and permaculture design.

Melbourne listeners can tune

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CURVE LURVE AN EXHIBITION BY ROGER APTE

Sculptor and AILDM awards trophy designer Roger Apte is holding an exhibition, Curve Lurve.

He will be showing his latest works using plywood, an example of which is, Love’s Embrace, seen above. While the plywood exhibition works aren’t suitable for outdoors, they are meant to also be maquettes for larger works, and

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Collaboration in Urban Design – Planning Week

AILA Victoria invites AILDM Members to a breakfast discussion “Collaboration in Urban Design” at the magnificent Birrarung Marr next Thursday 16 October – all monies raised will be donated to Breast Cancer Network Australia.

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ALPINE ACQUIRES IMPACT!

Alpine Nurseries has acquired Impact Grasses, a Queensland based specialist grass nursery.

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SPONSOR SEMINAR – ECO OUTDOOR

14 OCTOBER – Melbourne Sponsor Seminar – Eco Outdoor How to Specify High Quality and Exciting Paving and Walling products

Hayden Dyt, Victorian Business Manager from Eco Outdoors will take us through the ins and outs of specifying to achieve a high quality project using a range of paving and walling products.

The event

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AILDM MEMBERS SHOWCASED AT AOGS

Australia’s Open Garden Scheme subtropical and tropical design fest is on this coming weekend 4-5 October.

Flying the flag for AILDM members will be Ted Maguire  (Camoflauge Landscape Design)  who will be a guest speaker during the saturday program and will have a garden open to delegates on sunday morning.

Sidonie Carpenter will also

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