2009 LCA AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Friday, 13 November 2009

The LCA treated members, landscape architects, landscape designers, builders and horticulturalists; to an awesome display of their skills at the 2009 LCA Awards at Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh. AILDM Immediate Past President Arthur Lathouris and his wife Rosemary were amongst those in attendance.

As the sun set they strolled amidst a pictorial [...]

Telopea Centre Turns 20

Horticultural Therapy Society of NSW
THE TELOPEA CENTRE’S 20th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
Tuesday 29 September 2009

Cultivate are the peak body for horticultural therapy in NSW, based on the campus at Ryde TAFE.  Their building, the Telopea Centre, was opened 20 years ago this year, and they are using the anniversary as an [...]

Willoughby Open Garden Weekend

Willoughby council run an open garden weekend.  Potential gardens for this years event need to be confirmed as soon as possible, within four weeks.

This is a fantastic opportunity to promote your business!  The open garden weekend is well promoted and well attended by north shore residents.  Property owners in the past have really enjoyed the [...]

Friends of The Gardens’ Autumn Events

The Artistic Process:  Behind the Frame
Saturday 21 March, 1 to 3 pm
Maiden Theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney
Associate Professor Emma Robertson, the RBG Artist-in-Residence in 2008, will present a special lecture and show her sketchbooks and samples of work in progress, and explain her artistic process behind the scenes at the [...]

NATIONAL STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION 2008

AILDM NATIONAL STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION 2008

Results
1st     Sheree Grant – Kurri Kurri TAFE NSW
2nd     Julian Bombardiere – Ryde TAFE NSW
3rd     Simone Cooke – NMIT Victoria

Inaugural Allan Correy Student Design Award –
Simone Cooke – NMIT Victoria

Judges Comments

This year’s standard of presentation was generally much higher. If the competition was for presentation and graphics we’d have had a [...]

AILA NSW Technical Workshop

AILA NSW GROUP TECHNICAL WORKSHOP

Urban design challenges in road infrastructure development and delivery

Thurs 27 Nov 2008, 10am – 2pm
Stockland Training Room, Level 2, 133 Castlereagh Street, Sydney NSW 2000

This AILA technical workshop, sponsored by the RTA and Stockland, focuses on some of the challenges faced by [...]

Plantmark Grand Open Day

The Plantmark Group invites you and your staff to an Open Day where you can learn about new developments in the plant world and see the newly refurbished wholesale nursery site in Kellyville.  There is also the opportunity to visit our NSW production nursery in Arcadia and see a practical demonstration on the use of [...]

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 more pertinently, larger works [...]

CARNIVOROUS PLANTS

Join the Friends of The Gardens to find out about….
CARNIVOROUS PLANTS
Tuesday 23 September
Morning tea at 10.30, talk from 11 to 12 noon
Maiden Theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney

Dionaea muscipula

Greg Bourke of the Australasian Carnivorous Plants Society will introduce you to the world of carnivorous plants.

Learn what makes a carnivorous plant carnivorous, why carnivory has been adopted [...]

ANOTHER ALPINE SEMINAR

Lock this date in your diary
Alpine Nurseries announce the date for their 2nd seminar for 2008

“Business Matters”

•    HR Strategies – finding and retaining staff, creating career paths
•    Economy Snapshot (Don Stammer) – how might the landscape industry be impacted
•    Controlling your Costs (David McKinley) – tendering for positive cash flow and profits

A formal invitation will [...]