Holmesglen TAFE
Glen Waverley Campus - Melbourne
This high traffic area had become neglected and overgrown. The focus with this design was to showcase winter-flowering natives as this is the main time students are on-site. It was also to create an informal seating area with boulders amongst the plantings. Design: Rachel Stephenson, Earthworks: Anton Beudal (I Can Dig That).
Works
Initial works removed and relocated existing plantings. Thanks to the Holmesglen landscaping apprentices for the help, below. We also removed existing builders fill, and clay, and created an informal seating area with boulders, which could hold the slope. Mulch and compost were added with plantings to improve soil and suppress weeds.
Plant Selection
As this site receives full western sun in the afternoon plants needed to be very heat tolerant. Trees planted are Eucalyptus caesia ‘Silver Princess’, with flowering shrubs Guichenotia macrantha, Alyogyne hueglii, Hardenbergia ‘Regent’ and Chorizema cordatum. The climber Kennedia rubicunda is planted to cover the rear screen, Dampiera Diversifolia is the groundcover.
Visual access was needed beside the road where plantings were kept to a minimum with hardy shrub Cytisus scoparius ‘C.E Pearson’, and Pultanaea pendunculata as the groundcover.
