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For all those interested in urban forestry, urban planning, and open space landscape management, with a passion for greening cities.

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Glyphosate and weed management in public open space in the 2020s. Karen Smith

Weed management in open space has never been more challenging. Strategic thinking in a risk management framework is needed to stop out landscapes becoming weedy wastelands.

glyphosate, organic herbicides, weed management

How to kill Yucca elephantipes. Karen Smith

Killing yuccas is tricky as there are no on-label herbicide directions. A safe and tried method of tryclopyr use is used here.

gardens, landscape maintenance, tryclopyr, yucca

Woody Meadow gets the chop. Karen Smith

The Melbourne Woody Meadow in Parkville, has been coppiced for the 2nd time.

biodiversity, native plants, woody meadow

Soil design for soiless sites. Building new soil profiles from scratch. Peter May

Discover the key factors for developing designed soils to meet specific performance outcomes.

construction soils, designed soil, development sites, landscape soil, soil rehabilitation

Rehabilitation of site soil on landscape projects. Peter May

Learn how to audit basic soil properties and rehabilitate drainage and compaction to improve landscape soils.

construction soils, development sites, landscape soil, soil rehabilitation

Problems with deep planting of urban trees: it’s all about root growth. Karen Smith

Deep planting of landscape trees may cause instability, disease, decline and death. Here’s why.

deep planting, root growth, tree planting

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