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Corrugated steel planters in one of the courtyards.
They have also been placed in other areas to link the
different landscaping styles.

The neat and colourful areas are mainly in of Aristida junciformis, which Dowsett uses golden thread as I have placed them at
the hospital courtyards near the entrances as a bridging plant between formal and a few other strategic areas to link the
to various departments, and these are wild gardens. Corrugated steel planters different landscaping styles. Similarly, the
separate from the more natural and wild in one of the courtyards was another use of river gravel (Duzi gravel) is another
landscaped areas – road verges, river banks add-on project, not part of any of the linking element that brings a natural or
and the outlying areas of the hospital main landscaping briefs. Says Dowsett: “I contemporary feel to all areas.”
grounds. was given carte blanche to come up with There was a large amount of existing,
There are, however, a few ‘golden threads’ something that would be a ‘wow’ factor, usable plant material on site such as
that run through all areas, mainly the use and this has subsequently become another Sansevieria, Agapanthus and wild garlic,

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