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Landscape Design and Construction: Books/Standards/Video

Welcome to our Library guide to landscape design and construction

Featured Books and eBooks

Growing Locals
Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to screen to site
Down-to-earth Garden Design: How to design and build your dream garden
Small Garden Design
SketchUp
Essentials of Urban Design
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
Low-Water Landscaping for Dummies
With Nature: the landscapes of Fiona Brockhoff

Design Inspiration

Native: Art and design with Australian plants
Planting the Natural Garden
Piet Oudolf at Work
Paul Bangay: A life in garden design
Wild: The naturalistic garden
Dream Gardens: From small inner city gardens to expansive rural properties
Naturescapes
The City Gardener: Contemporary urban gardens
Garden Style: A book of ideas
The Gardener's Garden: Inspiration across continents and centuries
Garden Futures: Designing with nature

Australian Standards

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

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

Pests AND Diseases

Plant AND Identif*

Plant Names

Soil AND Health

Waterwise AND Garden

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

Featured Streamed Videos

Dream Gardens

Dream Gardens

Hand Tools - Safety and Technique

Hand Tools - Safety and Technique

Cuts and Bleeding

Cuts and Bleeding

Principles of Safe Carrying and Lifting

Principles of Safe Carrying and Lifting

eBook Collections

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