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Tag Archives: garden design
interview with sharon harris
As one of our experts appearing in-store, Sharon Harris from ‘Harris Parnell Garden Design’ was kind enough to take a few moments recently and answer a few questions for us… Describe your style. My style varies as our motto is ʻCreating Individual Gardensʼ. We donʼt really have any one particular style and pride ourselves on [...]
the ol’garden shed
Whether it be a place you store a few of those rusty gardening tools, your workshop retreat or a forever growing storage area, I’m sure we can all agree our humble little backyard dwellings leave much to be desired. But don’t be disheartened, there are many ways to improve this outdoor space! How about a [...]
stick work
My colleague Jess in Melbourne was recently surfing the www for inspiring sculptural ideas to decorate her new outdoor space when the amazing Patrick Dougherty caught her eye. Patrick creates incredible organic sculptures from tree saplings that have an almost eerie ghost like quality. These sculptures are truly larger than life and each one is designed [...]
unity, function, simplicity and scale
I have recently begun reading a great book on the late Thomas Church called ‘Gardens are for People’, first published in 1955. Thomas Church in my eyes is one of the leading Landscape Architects of the past 100 years. He studied at both Berkley and Harvard University and later in the 1930′s started up his [...]
a Swiss woodie
An open-air tree museum located on 10ha of land near Lake Zurich has just opened it doors. This open-air museum is the brainchild of well know Landscape Architect ‘Enzo Enea’ and showcases an array of trees he has collected over the past 17 years. I personally love to stroll around the MCA or the Art [...]
do you fancy a bit of clipping?
Whether you prefer your patch of ground all uniform and structured or like a more casual approach and enjoy leaving the leafy variety unto their own devices, I think Alan George’s photographs are worth a peek… In this series of images he explores the variety of weird and wonderful shapes people attempt to manipulate their [...]
.. “the mothership has landed” …
The above was said by Mayor Gilbert Wong of Cupertino, California recently during a council meeting, referring to the proposed Apple campus which will most likely be up and running by 2015. Showing similarities to a UFO, the design will take place on 148 acres of land, with the capacity to hold around 12,000 lucky [...]
rolling stone landscapes cleans up at mifgs
Well the winners of Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show have been announced and our friends at Rolling Stone Landscapes have cleaned up! The team won 4 awards > The Gold Medal, The Best in Construction, The Best in Design and The Best in Show. Not bad for a few boys north of the border. [...]
australian garden in chelsea
The Chelsea Flower show, also known as the “Mount Everest” of the gardening world, is coming up in late May. This year Australian Landscape designer, Jim Fogarty has been invited to craft an Australian show garden telling the metaphorical story, “The Journey of Water” The design will feature specialised Australian plant species and explore the [...]
interview with matt cantwell