Guides: Landscape Design and Construction: Books/Standards/Video

Featured Books and eBooks

Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to screen to site

Down-to-earth Garden Design: How to design and build your dream garden

Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: surface, steps and margins

Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: urban water features

Australian Native Plants: Cultivation, use in landscaping and propagation

Pests, Diseases, Ailments and Allies of Australian Plants

Western Weeds: A guide to the weeds of Western Australia

Landscape Design in Color: History, theory, and practice 1750 to today

Futureproof Your Garden: Environmentally sustainable ways to grow more with less

With Nature: the landscapes of Fiona Brockhoff

Design Inspiration

Native: Art and design with Australian plants

Dream Gardens: From small inner city gardens to expansive rural properties

The City Gardener: Contemporary urban gardens

The Gardener's Garden: Inspiration across continents and centuries

Australian Standards

Our Standards Australia collection may be searched directly. We have also listed the standards we feel most relevant to your subject.

Standards Australia Database > SMT The Standards Australia Database allows access to select Australian and New Zealand Standards as well as some ISO Standards

Subject Searches

A search of Supersearch (library catalogue) will find resources in varied formats by using search terms and Filters. We have created a few subject searches for you here below. If you find a title of interest, the link will either take you directly to the online resource, or show you which of our libraries hold the physical items.

Garden AND Style

Garden Design

Garden Design AND Australia

Landscape AND Design (video resources)

Landscape AND Construction

Note: The * symbol lets you find a word with alternate endings. For example, propagat* will find the keywords: propagation, propagating, propagate.

For more search tips, see our Resource Help: Supersearch online guide.

Streamed Video Collections

Search our streamed collections for yourself.

Tip: Videos play best in Chrome

Alexander Street Press Video Collection > SMT Alexander Street Press Video Collection includes Music and Performing Arts, Classical and World Musio. Issues in Health Science, Social Science and Engineering, Anthropology, Business Economics, History, Diversity, Art and Design, Personal Interest, Psychology and Counselling.
EduTV > SMT EduTV includes over 20,000 programs including documentaries, drama and series
Kanopy > SMT Kanopy is a streaming video service with customised content on a wide range of subjects, including health and safety, child care, education, hospitality and engineering. (Note that requests for additional titles are only available to staff via the online request form. Students should consult their lecturers or our guides for alternative content.)
Safetycare Safetyhub > SMT Safetycare Safetyhub contains Safetycare's comprehensive library of Workplace Health & Safety and Skills Training video programs.

Featured Streamed Videos

Dream Gardens

Hand Tools - Safety and Technique

Cuts and Bleeding

Principles of Safe Carrying and Lifting

eBook Collections

You can search our ebook collections for relevant book titles using appropriate search terms.

eBooks on ProQuest Central > SMT Covers many subject areas including Fine Arts, Business Studies, Education and Languages, Geography, ICT, Travel, Tourism and Hospitality. Health, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy, Psychology, Social Sciences, Agriculture, Computer Science, Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Maths and Science.
eBooks on EBSCOhost > SMT The eBook Collection has a selection of online books customised to the needs of SMT staff and students. Titles include Business and Economics, Computer Science and Technology, Education, Engineering & Technology, Health and Medicine, and Study Aids.
Knovel [Collection] > SMT A wide range of engineering resources (ebooks, dictionaries, encyclopedia, conference proceedings) and tools for the targeted subjects such as oil and gas, mechanical engineering, marine engineering and industrial engineering and related topics. Tools include a unit converter, material properties data, equation worksheet. See our Knovel Guide for more details