Street Trees



2005 Street trees at City of Mitcham - Adelaide SA. Healthy growth in tough conditions.

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2003 Street trees at City of Joondalup WA. Good establishment and healthy growth in road medians.

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TerraCottem success in saline conditions at Townsville

Ask anybody that has been away from Townsville for the past ten years "what is the biggest thing that has changed since you were last here?" The answer you will probably hear is simply, "its greener." Townsville City Council has been busily transforming the city over the last decade into a tropical paradise. No small task considering Townsville's location under a rain shadow in the dry tropics. This means that water is naturally in short supply and for anything other than the natural species of the area to stay green it must be irrigated. Accordingly, efficient water usage is a key council concern, with all domestic, industry, and municipal consumers strongly encouraged to manage this valuable resource more effectively.





Horticulture Officer Julie Roach relates how TerraCottem has become an important tool in the city's streetscaping, landscaping and beautification programme, "we had been hearing allsorts of good things about the product and were interested in evaluating it. As it turned out, we were about to commence a project to reforest the Airport access road, we knew this would not be easy, and that it would provide a stern test for TerraCottem."

As a result of the airport evaluation and subsequent successes the Council has taken the step of specifying the use of TerraCottem in all new plantings in its revegetation programme. This is regarded as yet another vote of confidence in a technology that continues to make a name for iteslf in landscaping and reforestation projects throughout Australia.

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Trees and Shrubs - Revegetation

Dawesville channel project - one of West Australia's biggest

Lying eighty kilometres south of Perth on the shores of the Indian Ocean is the City of Mandurah, now home to one of the largest marine environment projects ever undertaken in Western Australia. Known as the Dawesville Channel, this 2.5km waterway interconnects the Peel Inlet and the Harvey Estuary to the Ocean.

In harsh conditions like these, getting new plantings safely through the critical establishment phase is not always easy. A key to survival is making adequate levels of moisture and nutrient available within the plants root zone over a sustained period.



2003 Excellent establishment

Landscaping the Dawesville Channel project involved establishing three overlapping planting zones. The first, on the Northwest tip of the channel faces the full onslaught of wouth-westerly winds and tidal action.

TerraCottem was specified for all plantings. Mixed with soil excavated from the planting holes, and then carefully backfilled to provide an enhanced environment. Nearly one hundred thousand small plants were planted in this beautiful windswept section of the Western Australian Coast and the plants continue to flourish.

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