Colour landscaping with indigenous plants Life Landscapes explains how to use colour in your landscapes, using indigenous plants. Discover how to use red, orange, yellow, green, blue, white, pink and lilac-flowering indigenous flora in your landscape. Red in landscaping For all intensive purpose as red palette garden is a sunbird garden. Red is a b...

Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital Winner of the 2017 premier award in landscaping in South Africa  Project TeamClient: Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital TrustArchitects: GAPP Architects and Urban Designers, Sheppard Robson International, John Cooper Architecture and Ruben Reddy ArchitectsLandscape Architects: GREENinc Landscape ArchitectureL...

 What's with all the paper? We're in the business of planting trees not cutting them down!  Life Landscapes, a division of Life Green Group, is making a concerted effort to use less paper in the office; after all we are in the business of planting trees not cutting them down. Here is how the six divisions of Life Green Group are using les...

 Growthpoint Properties has launched its G-Eco initiative with the installation of a food waste composting machine at Growthpoint Business Park in Midrand. This machine, the Heron IVC, is locally manufactured in South Africa by Earth Probiotic Industrial (Pty) Ltd. The Heron IVC turns food waste into compost and can process up to 1,000kg of fo...

 Life Sports Turf and Life Water IQ redesign artificial sports field drainage to collect rainwater. Saving client's money whilst preserving water. When looking to do rainwater harvesting for a property there are two vital variables, precipitation levels and surface area. And what greater surface area for rainwater harvesting than an artificial...

 It is time to get the spade out the garden shed and start digging because, along with Spring, Arbor Week has arrived! This year Arbor Week takes place from the 1st of September to the 7th of September, the theme for this year is Forests and Water. Arbor Week is a Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries event aiming to raise awarenes...

 A Lovely, lively living wall to add colour to the office. Living walls – the interior plantscaper's response to a lack of space.Having the word, Life, as part of our company name requires that we live up to the name. So Life Indoors has made sure our offices are full of living plants and has even gone as far as to add a living wall in our rec...

 There are six different types of irrigation and sprinkler systems that Life Landscapes, the landscaping division of Life Green Group, works with. All of which offer different watering services to a garden. Irrigation has revolutionised watering. A hosepipe is an outdated way of watering a garden. Hosepipes damage vegetation, require manual la...

 Life Landscapes specialises in landscape construction and corporate garden maintenance. Life Landscapes started in 2005 and is the founding division of Life Green Group. Its directors, Deighton Clegg and Oscar Lockwood, founded The Office Plant and Real Landscapes, now Servest, in the 1990s. Today, the senior management of Life Landscapes has...

Life Landscapes has decided to explore the use of colour in landscaping and gardens, using an indigenous South African planting list.Enter heading here... Red in landscaping For all intensive purpose as red palette garden is a sunbird garden. Red is a bold, energetic colour and associated with passion, action, danger and war. It is eye-catching in ...