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ED'S COMMENT

Start strong
STEP and healthy

Use our Root Health Program
at planting to ensure healthy soil,
plants and roots. Boost your plant’s immune
system and encourage stronger plants, more
resistant to pests and diseases.

Stay strong LANDSCAPE
STEP and healthy ENHANCEMENT

EcoBuz MULTIGRO is an
‘all-in-one’ vitality culpture in the landscape has existed for centuries and can take on
numerous forms – people, green walls, furniture, abstract objects
maintenance tonic which Sor Baroque style figures from early European landscapes. They are
boosts plant growth, fruiting most often strategically placed to create focal points, draw attention to
something, indicate a new space or a transition from one point to another.
and overall plant wellness.
Help your plants to keep In this issue we feature some of the work of landscape architect Sonja
Swanepoel, who recently embarked on a new journey. She tells us that she
strong and healthy in order to will always be a landscape architect, with sculpting being an extension
of what she does. “My purpose is to continue shaping landscapes but I
fight off pests and diseases. have decided to pursue my passion as an artist.” In her first series of works,
she explores man’s relationship with birds as due to habitat degradation,
Prevention is better than cure! thousands of species are becoming extinct each year. She wants her
sculptures to create awareness of this fact.

Distributed by The article on Heleza Boulevard within the Sibaya Precinct also
showcases landscape enhancement. This project is a low maintenance,
xeriscape landscape, where the boulevard acts as a spine connecting all
future development. The precinct has been designed to work with the
surrounding landscape.

Take a look at the article called ‘Urban Octopus Garden’ in the nursery
www.kirchhoffs.co.za feature. Originally a piece of lawn within Cape Town’s V & A Waterfront, it
has been transformed into an urban food project, the mandate of which
is to support sustainable food programmes, create jobs and improve the
aesthetics of the V & A’s open spaces.

Karyn Richards,
EDITOR
WWW.ECOBUZ.CO.ZA

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