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Ellerslie Flower Show, Auckland
New Zealand: garden design highlights from November 2002 .The gardens
ranged for the minimalist with great design to the romantic,
from native to underwater themes! This is only a small glimpse,so check out the current shows on CD available here.
Ellerslie was a place to
find the trends in garden design. The romantic theme is back, straight
rows dominate and large blocks of colour, in plant material and accessories
are everywhere.
Alison Lennox chose a romantic
theme for her garden design for the British Tourism Authority.
Old fashioned cosmos, canterbury bells, pentstomen and daisies made a riot
of pink balanced by topiary and ivy cones and Robinia Moptops. |
Blue in all its shades,
tints and tones, with racked pumice and square water features adding contrast,
is the inspiration of Peter Bazeley and his team, The plants are
dianthus, koeleria glauca and festuca glauca. |
The coastal reef garden by Metamorphosis Landscapes had 4 columns
of water bubbling up over the seating area. This was surrounded with
grey and white plants, such as daisies, astelia, aloe, pachyvera and echiveria. |
More formality from Wairere Landscaping with a mirror at the end
and a large vase of lilies and delphiniums. Standard iceberg roses, petunias
and daises rose upwards on either side. |
Formality again, this time
with pots in the Morris and James garden, as the features and
grasses adding the contrast under foot and in the top of the pottery columns. |
Murray Lye was commissioned by the Singapore Tourism Board to reflect Singapore.
Singapore Orchids tumbles out of bowls with ferns and tropical foliage
contrasting with the terra-cotta walls. |
And then there were thegardens
that were too big to add here in full, but enjoy the parts!
Alex Schsnzer Landscaping
used stone towers to give height, and mostly New Zealand natives such as
kawakawa, cordyline, euphorbia, scleranthus biflorus and the creeping
New Zealand iris.
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Nigel Cameron added
mosaic bowls to the fields of bromeliads and added lamps as feature
lights. |
Jamie Durie designed this
garden for Tourism Tasmania. Great woven cones came out of the water, and
walla were built of mesh enclosing river stones. |
Tim Feather used panels
of bronzed roofing material, large pottery columns and fire to make this
design a show stopper. Water, stones and paving was sofened by the plantings
of bromeliad and cordyline. |
In the trade exhibits we
spotted~
~ Wagon wheel furniture
from Drury. A bowl of flowers floating in water , recessed into a log,
under a sheet of glass, rebated into the table. That means you can lift
up the glass, change your flowers and have a real conversation piece!
On the right, silver fountains
or were they palm trees? Designed by Peter Faulker of "A very Splashy Business" they could be either.
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