Jo-Anne Hilliar

Covid 19 has thrown a completely new dimension to the landscape design industry.  Some points to bear in mind are as follows: Gardens do not stop growing – landscapes need to be looked after from a maintenance perspective. Often new design features and aspects are required in terms of the development of landscapes, during this […]

The Landscape Construction industry internationally and in South Africa is back at work but strictly under the governmental protocols set up internationally in every country around the world.  Although our industry, fortunately, is conducted generally externally, we are still subject to strict health protocols to ensure a safer workplace not only for our workers but

We have run our Sustainable Landscaping Programme in Mauritius for the leading professional landscape contracting and maintenance company in Mauritius and offering the latest in practising sustainable and endemic landscaping methods. Very exciting times ahead in terms of restoration and rehabilitation, utilising many of the endemics and indigenous plant material found naturally within their environment.

Table of Contents We have been writing for some time about environmental landscaping and ensuring that our landscapes are self-sustaining.  I have briefly described our sustainable landscaping programme that we have launched internationally and will be running both nationally and internationally. People working in the landscaping industry need to practice sustainable landscaping and this programme

As our business is already operational in Southern Africa, we are busy researching opportunities to work in other parts of the world and are directly approaching big hotel groups that we believe will have large landscapes to be audited, together with training and consulting input for their gardening/landscaping teams. Auditing and making sure that the

Landscapes coping mechanism in times of stress Landscapers in the world are genuinely expected to survive in stressful conditions. Some of the issues that we have to face as contractors /consultants and designers is the lack of attention to ensure that the corresponding Landscape is a good representation of the hard landscaping elements that it

De-briefing: Maintenance Audits Maintenance Audits evaluations following on an extensive visit to our client ESP landscapers in Mauritius just recently. We have very positive feedback on all the 35 audits that were done, run by the ESP maintenance teams. ESP are the largest contractors in Mauritius offering excellence in expertise and ongoing maintenance in the

ESP Landscapers Ltd Mauritius – Maintenance Audits We are delighted to report that Jo-Anne Hilliar, consultant for Landscape Design Consultants International will be in Mauritius working for ESP Landscapers Ltd conducting maintenance audits on 852 Hectares of landscaping.  The audits are comprehensive incorporating a detailed evaluation and rating report feedback with onsite basic skills training

Team leaders on site Unless you have a competent and enthusiastic team leader running maintenance/installations on site, you can land up producing a job that is inconsistent with the anticipated delivery of a good landscape.  Please see below some of the most important factors required in good team leadership from a landscaping perspective – bearing

 Benefits of training and skills development – internationally: The last blog centered around training and skills development and how important it is to develop gardening skills of working in our industry as we are largely reliant on manual labor in order to execute a perfect landscape. This landscaping blog is going to center around the