The Canberra
Gardens and Our Heritage
creating
more sustainable gardens
List of Papers by Edwina Richardson (AILA),
Brittle Gum Design
Sustainable Canberra Gardens
Landscape Architecture Pioneer and Canberra
Gardener
An edited version
of an article was published in Landmark October
2006.
Glen Wilson’s long career is celebrated from
his days as a paying student of Edna Walling’s
to growing Callistemon cultivars. Wilson
was a pioneer in creating landscapes with an Australian
landscape aesthetic. His garden in Canberra
combined the subtle beauty of massed Eucalypts
and used simple methods to harvest water.
The
slow greening – residential clients
Originally published in Landmark July
2006.
This paper reports on environmental
initiatives clients request when commissioning
a Landscape Architect to provide a residential
landscape design. Whilst
clients in Sydney and Canberra seem fairly savvy
those in other states where water is not currently
a hot issue are still in the dark. We need
more examples of contemporary sustainable garden
design with interpretation which are on display
to the public.
Edwina Richardson set out to practise what
she preaches in the redesign of her suburban Canberra
Backyard.
Originally published in Landscape
Australia 3-2005
Landscape Architects often use
their own gardens to experiment with design ideas. In the Richardson’s
Canberra garden, many sustainable principles have
been put in place. Landscape materials
such as concrete pavers and house bricks are
re-used to create an outdoor terrace whilst a
hardy plant palette create functional and textural
compositions.
Towards
an Environmental Ethic for Canberra Gardens – reassessing
water use in the private landscape
Abstract of Honours
thesis, published in Landscape Australia 3-2001.
This abstract highlighted the
virtues required by gardeners to use water wisely. Virtues
include: courage, wisdom, humility & frugality.
Towards
an Environmental Ethic for Canberra Gardens – reassessing
water use in the private landscape
Full thesis (23 Pages) submitted
in 2000 at UC as part of the Honours Program,
Faculty.
This paper aims to develop an
environmental ethic to guide gardener water use
behaviour in Canberra. It
focuses on traditional ethics and environmental
ethics and develops a set of virtues required
by gardeners.
Historic Gardens
The Spirit of St Omer
4
pages, unpublished
St Omer is a
historic garden in the Braidwood district with
heritage links to Woden Homestead and Government
House in the ACT. It is a
representative example of an ordered Georgian garden
with a symmetrical arrangement of garden beds around
a central path. Plant material used in
the garden was hardy to cope with the harsh local
climate.
Environment Awards
A review
of AILA’s National Environment
Awards
Originally published in Landmark April
2006.
This article reviews the newly developed Australian
Institute of Landscape Architect Environment Awards
against similar awards in the built environment.
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