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ED'S COMMENT

CELEBRATING 100 ISSUES OF

LANDSCAPE SA

ISSUE NUMBER 1 OF LANDSCAPE SA WAS PUBLISHED BACK IN 2004 AND NOW,
17 YEARS LATER, WE HAVE REACHED ISSUE NUMBER 100 – WHAT A MILESTONE!

he company that started the magazine “The latest Landscape SA has landed on my also very strong, as is the sense of physically
was Eagle Publishing, and I think back desk. Congratulations on this edition. It is turning each page. It is tactile.
Tto the launch party we held at the certainly a publication the green industry can
Johannesburg Country Club in Auckland be proud of. Well done!” Dave Kirkby, founder Media Update is a newsletter I receive
Park. Who could have known then where of Top Turf Landscaping, September 2007. regularly, and last year put forward the
the journey would lead? To those of you who following valid point:
have travelled with us, I hope the memories “I was just reading your latest issue of
have been good. Since June 2019, the Landscape SA, communicated via SALI and I “Print and digital are often seen to be at odds
magazine has been published by Estates in must congratulate you. Your subject topics are with one another, but they can co-exist and
Africa (Pty) Ltd, a division of Now Media (Pty) excellent and diversified, so well done!” Joanne work together. It’s better to think of them
Ltd. Hillier, Landscape Design Consultants as two sides of the same media coin, rather
International, July 2020. than opposing teams fighting for readership.
It has been hard work but very rewarding. They are stronger together and there is no
I’ve always wanted the magazine to be used Print and digital: two sides of the reason why they can’t live side by side. At the
as a type of reference tool which readers same media coin end of the day, it is audience first, not digital
keep and go back to when they’re looking or print first.”
for something. Positive feedback from Covid and its lockdown brought about
clients in the industry is hugely encouraging the move from print to online, which has, I A huge thank you to our readers, advertisers,
and makes all the hard work worthwhile, so believe, both advantages and disadvantages. subscribers and contributors who have
if you’ll permit me a small indulgence, I’ll Fundamentally, it boils down to personal travelled this wonderful journey with us!
quote a few comments here: preference. The obvious advantage for
online is its immediacy, wider reach, no print My thanks and appreciation also go to the
“There are few publications that attempt to and postage costs, or having to rely on the Landscape SA team – without them the
address the needs of the entire green industry. unreliable SA Post Office. magazine would not exist. It’s the team
However, Landscape SA is one of them.” Paul work and combined effort that brings it all
Vonk, 2004 (then SANA Vice President of Print on the other hand, is much more together and makes it happen. LSA
Marketing). tangible and is often seen as the most Karyn Richards,
trustworthy environment for advertisers
“We would like to express our appreciation and marketers. The visual experience of it is EDITOR
for your article on our landscape work at Big
Bay. It was an excellent production and no
doubt will be appreciated by our clients, the
City of Cape Town, and Rabcav. We entered
the project into an international competition
– the Torsanlorenzo Nurseries International
Prize 2005 – and your article assisted us with
our presentation. It was in fact translated
into Italian in order to motivate our work and
I am pleased to inform you that we won first
prize in the category of Landscape Design in
Territorial Transformation. Thank you again
for your efforts in promoting our work, and the
shared success in our award.” Anthony Wain,
Planning Partners, Cape Town. April 2005.

“Just a quick note to express my thanks for a
very good publication. I really look forward to
every issue!” Rob Tracey, Diarec Diamond
Sales, Johannesburg, September 2005.

“I have been following articles in Landscape
SA with increasing interest because of your
move towards ecological planning and/
or sustainable design. I am a town planner
and urban designer by training but an
environmental designer by conviction, so
anything ‘eco’ interests me. The growing
coverage of these issues in Landscape SA
gladdens my heart.” Louw van Biljon,
Spatium Environmental Design, Clarens,
January 2007.

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