by Ian Collins | May 22, 2021 | Community Gardens, Community Projects, Garden Wicking, Horticulture Projects, Residential Projects, WaterUps Featured
Wicking bed gardening in May Wicking beds for indoor plants This blog will focus on how wicking systems can be used to water your indoor plants With the WaterUps square planter on the market for a few months now, I thought I would try something a little different and...
by Ian Collins | May 20, 2021 | Community Gardens, Community Projects, Garden Wicking, Raised beds, Residential Projects, School & ELC Projects, School Gardens
Angus assembles and plants out his new WaterUps® square planter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQPABGzbdjo&t=9sVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Waterups Single Cell Planter Box (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQPABGzbdjo&t=9s) The next...
by Ian Collins | May 16, 2021 | Commercial Projects, Landscape Projects, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 16 May 2021 by Ian Collins In late 2020 the Forbes Shire Council wanted to install large tree planters to act as bollard protection and to improve the streetscape of the city centre. The council wanted a low maintenance solution that would keep their trees...
by Ian Collins | May 8, 2021 | Garden Wicking, Landscape Projects, Residential Projects, WaterUps
The science of wicking Often the first question we are asked by people who are not familiar with wicking is, “how does it work?” Well, we usually explain that it is based on a scientific principle called capillary rise. This was first observed by Leonardo da Vinci and...
by Ian Collins | May 6, 2021 | Commercial Projects, Landscape Projects, WaterUps Featured
Posted: 6 May 2021 by Ian Collins When BPSM Architects were designing the rooftop bar of the Crowne Plaza in Hobart they knew they wanted to include perimeter garden beds featuring Australian bush tucker plants. The challenge was how to keep the plants alive without...
by Ian Collins | Apr 29, 2021 | Commercial Projects, Community Projects, Horticulture Projects, Landscape Projects, Raised beds, Residential Projects, School & ELC Projects, WaterUps Featured
Waterups® is proud to announce that we have passed a major milestone of 20 million litres of water saved – that’s the volume of 8 Olympic sized swimming pools! A nine week trial conducted by Peter Rutherford, Senior Ecologist at the Eco House and...