Garden Design - Chelsea Flower Show 2007

Job Brief

For the past three years Fleming’s Nurseries have presented Australian Show Gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show.

We believe that this has generated enormous positive media attention for the Australian Horticultural Industry on the world stage, and particularly within Australia, while at the same time adding a unique element to the Chelsea Flower show itself.

Following the theme of our previous gardens we again propose to present a typically Australian garden. Over the past years we have learnt that the thing that sets Australian Gardens apart from other gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show is that they are designed to live in. Visitors to the show can imagine themselves being in the garden and interacting with elements of the garden.

This years garden has been designed to evoke a similar reaction from visitors to the show.

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The Design

Fleming’s & Trailfinders Australian Garden

Designed to be a casual living space this garden is both functional and practical. Depending on the occasion the garden can enhance the mood – offering relaxing elements such as water and soft landscape as well as stimulating and challenging features such as sculptures and architectural lines.

The key features of the garden include:

• A platform of bluestone – a product that this firmly linked with Melbourne’s heritage – that features built in seating and occasional table
• A vertical ‘in-wall’ fish tank
• A dramatic sculpture
• Chunky timber bollards
• A large, shallow pond
• An architectural pergola screen
• A copse planting of birch
• A dramatic cluster of purple beech
• Sculptural and dramatic Dracena draco

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The Landscape Designer

Mark Browning has been operating his design business, Cycas Landscape Designs for the past twenty years. During this time he has designed gardens for some of Melbourne’s finest residences and built a client base that includes some of Melbourne’s premium residential architects and builders.

Mark has earned an enviable list of awards for his designs.

• 2006 – Landscape Industry Association of Victoria (LIAV) – Winner of ‘Residential Garden over $100,000’
• 2005- Housing Industry Association (HIA) Awards – five category winners or runners up featured gardens designed by Mark. This included the overall winner of the prestigious ‘Best Custom Home in Victoria’ category.
• 2005 - Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show – Silver medal in Show Garden Category.
• 2004 - Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show – Silver medal in Show Garden Category and Comeadow Award.*
• 2003 – Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show – Silver medal in Show Garden Category.

*The Royal horticultural Society of Victoria Comeadow Award

This is a special recognition award from the Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria presented to the most outstanding landscape designer at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show.

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The Landscape Contractor

Kiama Landscapes and Paving Pty Ltd regularly work in conjunction with Cycas Landscape Designs. Together they have constructed many gardens, including winning the Landscape Industry Association of Victoria (LIAV) ‘Residential Garden over $100,000’ earlier this year.

Kiama Landscapes and Paving have also independently of Mark won numerous awards, including the 2003 Landscape Industry Association of Victoria (LIAV) ‘Pavement in the Landscape’ award.

At the Chelsea flower Show 2007, Kiama Landscapes and Paving will work in conjunction with:

Scott Wynd of TLC (Total Landscape and Construction), who has overseen the construction of the previous two Australian Gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show – Fleming’s Nurseries Float in 2005 and Fleming’s Nurseries Australian Garden presented by Trailfinders in 2006;

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Peter Dowle Plants and Gardens as a UK based contractor.

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