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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.

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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