Toorak Jungles - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne, Australia, Mr Harvey created a unique nursery concept featuring botanical displays which demonstrated inexpensive, creative approaches to land improvements.Each week the community was offered a completely new botanical spectacle as the old displays were sold off. Education programmes for the schools and public, civic and senior citizen projects and special events all emphasized environmental awareness and the beautification of Australia.
The site for the nursery was a very large and unsightly car yard opposite the Malvern Town Hall. All displays pictured here are in pots on the gravel car yard. Mr Harvey staffed the nursery with senior citizens and unemployed youth he trained himself.
1982
Toorak Jungles won First Prize for the best Commercial Premises of the Malvern Garden Compitition
1982
One of the many environmental classes Dale Harvey and John Newton introduced to the local school children. They were given tasks in the nursery to find and document, draw their favorite flower and write a brief summary on it, this then was taken back to the classroom where they stood up in front of the class and presented a talk on the subject.
 1982Malvern Town Hall over looking Toorak Jungles. Everything in this nursery display is growing in pots for sale on a gravel car yard parking lot. |
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 Following are four pictures of the same area showing some of the many different flowers and plants in displays that customers would see and purchase. |
 Seasonal displays were redesigned each week. Often the entire car yard display garden area would completely sell out during a single weekend sale. |
 Each display garden was created using plants appropriate for planting at that particular time of the year. The displays were designed so that individuals could select from the display and recreate their own display garden at home or at their business. |
 Melbourne's unique climate allows for both cool weather temperate gardening as well as subtropical planting. |
About us Dale Harvey and John Newton met in Melbourne Aust. in 1981. Since then they both men have supported each others careers while also building and maintaining their own. Read about how they were able to turn their joint careers into one and creating a dream of a better world starting in their own local community. |
Media & Publications The following articles are a small part of the many published editorials on or about both Dale Harvey and John Newton.Plus the property affectionately nick named by the people of New Zealand, as the "Quarter Acre” Paradise gardens.
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Awards & Credits This is a collection of Appreciation Certificates, Local and Overseas Awards with Acknowledgments presented to Dale Harvey and John Newton over the many years of their joint careers.Plus the Launch and Registration of The H.O.P.E. Trust
The Healing of Planet Earth.
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Contact UsQuarter Acrea Paradise23 Vine Street Mangere East 2024 Auckland New Zealand Text: 0274720700 Tel: +61 9 276 4827
Email: info@daleharvey.com
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