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‘Haberfield’s Urns’ by Angie Gallinaro

By: Alexandra Crosby Apr 25 '24 Date: April 25, 2024 Comments: 0

Recently I’ve been reading Merry Hall by Beverley Nichols written in 1951 about a 5 acre rundown Georgian estate he bought after WWII.  An avid gardener he wrote: I noticed something else.  At each end of this lovely little wall there were two brick pillars. They stood there, perfectly poised, exactly the right height, exactly […]

Maquel

By: Alexandra Crosby Feb 21 '22 Date: February 21, 2022 Comments: 0

Climate scientist Maquel Brandimarti has lived in a cottage on Belmont Street for the past 10 years. An avid gardener, Maquel recently completed a PhD on kangaroo ecologies at the University of Sydney. In her back garden there are chickens in a coop and a resident ringtail possum. The garden is shaded by a big […]

By: Alexandra Crosby Oct 05 '21 Date: October 5, 2021 Comments: 0

Rosemary in roundabouts, lemons over the fence: how to go urban foraging safely, respectfully and cleverly Shutterstock Alexandra Crosby, University of Technology Sydney and Ilaria Vanni, University of Technology Sydney Does anything beat the experience of finding a wild mulberry tree and stuffing a handful of fresh juicy berries in your mouth? Have you ever roasted […]

Melbourne Design Week

By: Alexandra Crosby Mar 12 '21 Date: March 12, 2021 Comments: 0

If you are in Melbourne 26 March to 5 April, be sure to visit Melbourne Design Week. We have a few planty picks for the week! WILD CITIES Presented by Wendy Steele, Tess Lea, Hélène Frichot and Ashley Dawson What does it mean to be “wild” in the 21st century? How is the concept of […]

7 Conversations in Haberfield

By: Alexandra Crosby Jun 30 '19 Date: June 30, 2019 Comments: 0

In 2018 we completed an oral history project in Haberfield, NSW. The aim was to map, document and showcase the neighbourhood’s cultural diversity through interviews with gardeners and photographs of gardens. The gardeners were recruited through the Haberfield Association, among participants of the annual Haberfield Garden Competition, and other social networks. We approached oral history […]

Judging the Haberfield Gardens Competition 2019

By: Alexandra Crosby Apr 23 '19 Date: April 23, 2019 Comments: 0

Mapping Edges was invited to judge this year’s Haberfield Garden Competition. We walked with Inner West Greens Councillor Marghanita da Cruz looking at gardens in the ‘Kitchen’ and ‘Autumn’ categories.

Bee Urban, Kennington Park in spring

Spring gardens: as above, so below.

By: Ilaria Vanni Jun 10 '18 Date: June 10, 2018 Comments: 0

This spring I visited a variety of gardens in UK, from grand National Trust estate properties to council estates plots. Everywhere I saw plant-human collaborations to green our environment and lives.

Lismore

By: Alexandra Crosby Jul 18 '17 Date: July 18, 2017 Comments: 0

In late March this year when ex-Tropical Cyclone Debbie moved south and merged with a cold front moving up the north coast it triggered heavy rainfall in the Northern Rivers leading to significant flooding in the river town of Lismore. There are some amazing photos here According to the NSW government, the floods have caused more […]

Designing with weeds

By: Ilaria Vanni Jun 18 '17 Date: June 18, 2017 Comments: 0

I am in Venice, and I am posting from a garden on the island of Giudecca. It is best described as a series of four gardens, each on the site of plots of land with their own plant history. These histories are layered through the current design, from the layout of old orchards, to a vegetable […]

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