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Greg's Indigenous Plants & Landscapes

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65 285 170 251

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Address:Epping, Epping, VIC

Website:http://www.gregsindigenouslandscapes.com.au

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Greg's Indigenous Plants & Landscapes I have come to landscaping through bush crew work. Through this work I developed a passion for Australian native plants and a drive to do everything in my power to convince people to share my passion and to stop planting invasive exotic plants that are a major threat to our unique flora and natural landscapes. I specialise in creating exclusively Australian native gardens that mimic our natural landscapes across the continent. I love to be reminded of the bush, in any small way, when I ever go into a garden. This poem, written by Dorothea Mackeller in 1907 at the age of 22, expresses my own feelings eloquently The love of field and coppice, Of green and shaded lanes. Of ordered woods and gardens Is running in your veins, Strong love of grey-blue distance Brown streams and soft dim skies I know but cannot share it, My love is otherwise. I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror - The wide brown land for me! A stark white ring-barked forest All tragic to the moon, The sapphire-misted mountains, The hot gold hush of noon. Green tangle of the brushes, Where lithe lianas coil, And orchids deck the tree-tops And ferns the warm dark soil. Core of my heart, my country! Her pitiless blue sky, When sick at heart, around us, We see the cattle die - But then the grey clouds gather, And we can bless again The drumming of an army, The steady, soaking rain. Core of my heart, my country! Land of the Rainbow Gold, For flood and fire and famine, She pays us back threefold - Over the thirsty paddocks, Watch, after many days, The filmy veil of greenness That thickens as we gaze. An opal-hearted country, A wilful, lavish land - All you who have not loved her, You will not understand - Though earth holds many splendours, Wherever I may die, I know to what brown country My homing thoughts will fly.

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Frequently asked questions

  • Are you an insured business and do you guarantee your work?

    With landscaping jobs I always provide full details in a document to the customer as to what works I will carry out, where it will be done and how. If, for what ever reason, I failed to carry out exactly what I have detailed then I would feel obligated to rectify it.

  • How did you decide to get into your line of work?

    I was a medical scientist and worked fro several years in hospital laboratories. Unfortunately most of the medical science jobs at the public hospitals disappeared when Kennet embarked on his privatisation crusade. This prompted me to try my hand at computer programming in the commercial IT sector. However in the end the corporate culture and the 9-5 drudgery was not for me. I became aware of the almost total lack of awareness of native plants and the exotic weeds, introduced by the retail nursery sector, that threaten much of our unique Australian flora. So I found a cause that I was passionate about and here I am still pursuing that passion after about 10 years.

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