Planting palette

Overview
This category of the LIM has been developed to provide guidance for the selection of plant species
This category addresses the following:
- Plant selection
- Plant maintenance.
This recommended planting palette is for ‘landscape design’ projects such as parks, gardens, landscape and amenity reserves, recreation reserves and road reserves, rather than for ‘revegetation or ecological restoration’ projects.
The latter require a more ecological approach; more complex, diverse and site specific species lists and planting methods consistent with regional ecosystems; and procurement of species which may not be readily available commercially.
However, as there are philosophical and species overlaps between the two approaches, revegetation planting guidelines are provided in Revegetation planting.
This palette encourages the use of species that retain and enhance the Sunshine Coast region’s specific and subtropical character across a range of landscape character types, and will be periodically updated as species are trialled.
This component is currently in development
