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Ask five nurseries what's trending right now and you'll get five different answers — usually whatever they happen to have too much of. We wanted a straighter answer, so instead of guessing, we looked at what's actually being planted: government greening programmes, street tree surveys, and what's showing up in new office and lobby designs. Three things are driving the list below. Councils and the state government are planting more native species. Developers still want a site

"Screening" and "hedging" get used interchangeably in a brief, and they are not quite the same job. A screen has to block a sightline — a car park, a service yard, a boundary fence — as quickly and as solidly as possible. A hedge has to hold a clean, even line that survives repeated clipping without gapping at the base. Some shrubs do both well. Others are better at one than the other, and specifying the wrong one is how a "hedge" ends up as a row of individual shrubs that ne

Most planting failures are not caused by bad plants, but by good plants put in the wrong place, at the wrong size, at the wrong time. A practical framework for specifying trees on Malaysian projects.

Next Natures Urban Greenery | 4 Minutes Read Every landscape project has the same anxious period: the months between planting and the day the scheme starts to look like the drawing. Mature stock shortens that gap considerably, but not every species handles transplanting at size equally well. Some sulk for a season. Some never really recover. These ten do. All are species we grow and supply at landscape grade, and all have a track record of pushing new growth quickly after pla