Tag: Bradley Method

  • A Critique of the Forterra Model of Forest Restoration for Everett’s Forest Park

    A Critique of the Forterra Model of Forest Restoration for Everett’s Forest Park

    Now that Forterra has decided to essentially end its on-the-ground involvement in the Green Everett Partnership, I feel more at liberty to criticize its urban forest restoration model as it was applied in Everett’s Forest Park. The model’s failure, I believe, stems from the basic mismatch between the amount and type of labor needed to…

  • The Bradley Sisters and the English Perennial Garden

    The Bradley Sisters and the English Perennial Garden

    Being Australians from Sydney, and very “British,” the two Bradley sisters were certainly familiar with English-style perennial gardens and likely had experience maintaining them. Recently, I realized that their well-known method of bushland restoration, the Bradley Method, could have evolved directly from their experience with preventing grass from invading flower beds.

  • The Bradley Method

    The Bradley Method

    Published in Australia in 2002, “Bringing Back the Bush – The Bradley Method of Bush Regeneration” encapsulates the principles and methods developed by sisters Eileen and Joan Bradley based on their years of work restoring portions of a natural area in Sydney.