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Australian Made: More Than Just a Logo
Each year, Australian Made Week shines a spotlight on businesses that design, manufacture and produce their products here at home. It’s a great opportunity to recognise the companies choosing to invest in Australian manufacturing and the people behind it. For us at ShapeScaper though, it’s never really been about only one week. Being Australian made isn’t something we switch on for a marketing campaign or celebrate for a few days each year. It’s simply how we’ve chosen to build our business from day one. Every piece of modular steel edging and every planter we produce has been designed and manufactured…
A flat garden has one real problem: everything competes at the same level. Your eye has nowhere to travel. Plants blur into each other, nothing anchors the space, and the whole thing reads as one undifferentiated mass of green. Height changes that — and planter boxes are one of the more practical ways to introduce it deliberately. Varying height is how you get foreground and background to exist in the same space. Without it, a garden is just a surface. A low ground-cover at knee height, something mid-range behind it, a taller specimen further back — that sequence is what…
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