The dangers of artificial turf
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Here is the newest Landscape News.
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Our featured video is the dangers of artificial turf from the US.
Read through and enjoy.
Regards,
Katrina Layt
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Plants for rain gardens
| Rain gardens have many benefits for our waterways and ourselves. When selecting the right plants for your rain garden, you have to follow a few rules to make it successful. Find out what plants will work in rain gardens.Full article
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Organic soils and mulches
| "All too often landscape professionals use organic soils and mulches
incorrectly. Unfortunately the confusion is enhanced by suppliers
promoting the wrong product as ground cover mulch, and inadequately
refined products for soil conditioning or soil blends." Full article
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Future release plants and the Ozbreed gardens
| Here is a sneak peek at the Ozbreed trial gardens. See some of our tried and tested plants as well as some new plants that haven't been released to New Zealand yet.
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Playground mulch trial
| It's early days but some promising results are already showing for methods of planting into soft fall mulch. This will hopefully bring more greenlife into our playgrounds and give kids the green they need. Full article
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Beware of using Lomandra confertifolia in mass planting
| Unless certain rules are followed, mass planting with Lomandra confertifolia will most likely fail. This species of Lomandra doesn't do as well in mass planting situations as the tougher longifolia varieties. Full article
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Plant Profile: Katrinus Deluxe Lomandra longifolia 'Katrinus Deluxe' PVR
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Katrinus Deluxe is the perfect plant for drought tolerance, green strappy leaves and beautifully perfumed flowers.
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Plant Profile: Little Rev TM Dianella revoluta 'DR5000' PVR
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Little Rev has beautiful architectural foliage that creates lots of interest in a landscape along with its blue foliage.
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Plant Profile: Tasred TM Dianella tasmanica 'TR20' PVR
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Tasred has red, yellow and green tones of foliage throughout the year. The colder the weather, the redder Tasred becomes.
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