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Lothian Books are currently writing a book at Flemings Nurseries Australian Inspiration Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. The Book titled. Australian Inspiration: This story follows the first ever Australian entry into the world renowned Chelsea Flower show in London England. Release Date: November 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Recent news heading towards Fleming's Nurseries Australian Inspiration at Chelsea 2004
A consortium of 'home-grown' companies highly regarded in the Australian landscape industry, has been accepted as the first ever fully-international show garden exhibit at the famous Chelsea Flower Show in London. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media Releases 30 April 2004 - Australia has Designs on Chelsea Success 27 April 2004 - Clippings 26 April 2004 - Australian Inspiration Push for Chelsea 19 March 2004 - Aussie natives that will do well in England's climate 19 March 2004 - Cast in Stone Media Release 21 January 2004
Australia Arrives At Chelsea Britain's gardening enthusiasts will greet Australia's greatest gardening export since the tea tree with delight. Designers, nursery folk and landscapers have pulled together to fly to the UK to create Fleming's Nurseries Australian Inspiration, the first ever Australian show garden to appear at the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show. This feature packed show garden is a collaboration between Victoria based Jim Fogarty Design, Fleming's Nurseries and Semken Landscaping, in a bid to share award-winning design and techniques from 'down under' with the horticultural industry and gardeners from the UK and across Europe. The emphasis is on the exotica, with designer Jim Fogarty choosing a warm exotic feel and plants to match, inspired by a wealth of influences from Australia. Firewood stack walls, rammed earth retaining walls, rusted steel, oiled slabs of River Red Gum and natural stone, all combined with exotic foliage plants create something with a bit of a 'home grown' approach to design. This is not an Australian native garden; it is, nevertheless, a typical Australian garden. The real charmers are the plants, all of which reflect the feel of Australia, whether it be in their origin or their foliage colour. Although visitors may think this garden lies elsewhere in the world, Fleming's Nurseries Australian Inspiration offers ideas on what will grow in this country. All of the plants shown have been sourced in the UK, so there are lots of real ideas and inspirational touches that can be adapted to all manner of gardens and back yards. Putting plants together is an art and the team have painted a picture using half Australian natives and half exotics. Australian plants include the red flowering bottle brush Callistemon citrinus 'splendens', Anigozanthos sp., a dwarf form of kangaroo paw and an Australian Cordyline, Cordyline australis 'Red star' with its spiky burgundy foliage as well as other Australian wild flower plants in feature pots. Shrub forms of Eucalyptus gunii will feature in the beds and a pair of wonderfully showy feature trees, multi-stemmed snow gums Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. niphophila will make quite a statement in this garden. Exotic plants include silver foliaged Artemisia 'Powis Castle', Helichrysum thians 'icicles' and Euphorbia wulfenii 'Silver Swan'. Burgundy exotics such as Cotinus 'Grace' and Berberis ottawensis 'Superba' will add to the drama of the planting combinations. Exotic grasses such as the brown toned Carex buchananii and the blue Festuca 'Elijah Blue' soften the planting scheme and give height variation and structure to the garden. The Australian influence extends to the features of this garden. Eucalyptus provides the raw material for the garden's principal focal point, an architectural wall of stacked firewood, cut from dead trees and will be donated to charity immediately after the show. Rich exposed natural Australian timbers create a rustic and comforting ambience with unique 'Jarrah' timbers being used for the furniture. The mini orb feature side wall evokes the feeling of 'the bush' as does the rusted steel sheet back wall. The rammed earth retaining wall will be made by an Australian craftsman, who will fly over to craft the wall from English 'Ironstone' in traditional Australian manner. The pavers are hand made using crushed granite from a quarry on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. Rusted steel pots and black stone water features will be shipped from Australia. A barbecue brings realism to the garden and elegant trees provide dappled light and shade. The result is a perfect extension of living space for a small backyard, a useable 'outdoor room', that seeks to echo and reflect the feel of an Australian garden fit for relaxing, cooking, eating, entertaining and working in. Fleming's Nurseries Australian Inspiration will be a logistical miracle with all materials other than consumables being shipped from Australia. Even the tools used for the construction of the garden - some of which are unique to Australia such as the wheelbarrows - are being made by a local Melbourne manufacturer. The construction team for the garden will be 100% Australian. This garden is an adaptation of an accomplished design which the judges at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show were pleased to give a gold medal and the title of Best in Show in April 2003. Clipping: 8 January 2004 - View 11 December 2003
First ever Australian Garden at 2004 Chelsea Flower Show Antipodean sun will shine down on the 2004 Chelsea Flower Show with Fleming's Nurseries Australian Inspiration, a show garden which takes the unique materials and the natural colours of Australia and combines them with many international influences. The 100% Aussie team are currently preparing themselves for the challenge of creating the first ever Australian show garden in London. Down-under team, Fleming's Nurseries, Semken Landscaping and cutting edge garden designer Jim Fogarty have pulled together for the occasion and will be flying over a team to create the garden. Fleming's Nurseries Australian Inspiration reflects the ambience of a warmer country and offers ideas on what can be grown in this country now and in the future bearing in mind worldwide climatic changes. Although mixing plants indigenous to Australia with European plants, all of them can be sourced and grown in the UK. This is not a native Australian garden. As much as Australian food and fashion has many international influences, so too does Australian garden design. The main feature of the garden is an architectural eucalyptus stack wall. Providing a warm rustic backdrop, the colours of the mainly foliage plants are given a stage to showcase their earthy tones, reflecting the feel of Australia. Retaining walls of rammed earth provide an eco friendly, modern finish to the split levels of this garden. Bluestone bull nosing caps the wall and specially formulated pavers frame the lawn. Noise and movement in the garden is achieved with the installation of two cascading black stone pyramid water features. Oiled slabs of red gum detail the tall fescue lawn and subtly lead the eye to the open roofed lounge room with jarrah benches and an eye catching coffee table. A barbecue brings a touch of Australian realism to the garden. Trees are represented by a clever mix of native and exotic species. The result will serve as a perfect inspiration for and example of how to bring a touch of the southern hemisphere to your own small backyard, using exotic shade plants, feature trees and alternative wall ideas. Jim Fogarty, the garden designer said, "We are an eclectic nation made up of people from all over the globe and I often wonder with amazement why we don't support and celebrate our own style of design, influenced by the colours of nature and our own lifestyle. Consequently, this garden is what I interpret as an Australian garden which draws on other cultural influences that are part and parcel of the continent that is Australia." The design for the garden is a modification of the triple award winner and best show garden at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show in April 2003. |
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