Wicking Garden Beds have become increasingly popular as more people understand the benefits of the wicking watering system in reducing garden watering requirements while at the same time producing more prolific plants.
Intensive council tree planting programs across Australia’s urban centres are required to help mitigate the serious heat island affect coming in 2030 – four decades sooner than scientist had allowed!
While many ambitious urban greening projects are being implemented by various councils, many tree planting initiatives will fail without adequate water in the first three years of a tree’s life.
Read on to discover how councils and property developers can future proof their environs to better cope with drought and downpour – and why councils need to go hard, go fast and go now!
Creating more green bus shelters in our urban environments is necessary to make our cities more livable, combat increasing heat island impacts, and induce more people to use public transport.
Residents of our capital cities are asking for more shade at bus stops, like the findings of a 2020 Brisbane City Council Survey. The response to date has largely been to plant trees either side of a bus stop – but there are many locations where this has not been possible.
More is needed increase shade, user comfort and reduce sun and heat exposure as noted in a recent Linked In post by Riley Flanagan from the Urbis.
