The Garden Design Chronicle
Blog URL http://gardendesignchronicle.blogspot.com/
Located Melbourne, Victoria Australia
Tags gardening, garden design, sculpture, landscape design, plants, design, outdoor design, furniture
A Melbourne garden and furniture designer's thoughts on all things garden design related. Blog topics include planting design, solving design problems, art & sculpture, local and international designers and coping with ongoing drought.
Latest Blog Posts
- Natural Wonders on Oct 3, 2009 in public parks Indigenous plants
Flowering Grass Trees, September 2009 Wilsons Promontory National ParkI've just returned from a family expedition to Wilsons Promontory - at the very southern most point of Victoria. We stayed close by to Wilsons Promontory National Park and ma...
- Vertical Web Wanderings on Sep 10, 2009 in Succulents Green Walls Vertical Gardens
Vertical Display at Flora GrubbThe thing I love about the Web is that it opens my world to many things that would otherwise simply be out of my physical reach. One of these is the San Francisco based Flora Grubb Garden Store. They seem to...
- Dreaming of Water on Aug 29, 2009 in art sculpture gardens
Melbourne's Royal Botanic GardensA couple of weekends ago I walked around the Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens for the first time in quite some time. I was devastated by the impact of drought on these gardens - the gardens used to be a local haunt...
- Garden in the Sky - New York "High Line" on Jul 23, 2009 in public parks Outdoor furniture Piet Oudolf
Strolling the New York "High Line"The minute an email landed in my inbox featuring the New York "High Line" I knew I just had to write a little about it on my blog. I love a public garden and especially and innovative one which makes use of disused...
- Dali and Restraint on Jul 9, 2009 in art Salvador Dali courtyard gardens seaside sculpture gardens
Dali's sculpture and local plant materialThis week found me at the National Gallery of Victoria's winter masterpiece exhibition on Salvador Dali. I was accompanied on my outing by my mother and my seven year old son. As you can imagine my tour arou...
- Snippets from the Garden Show Part 3 on May 3, 2009 in Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show
There is probably plenty more I could write on the 2009 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show but I yearn to get back to the real world of gardens so I thought I'd just post a little slideshow of my images from the show.Please email me or le...
- Snippets from the Garden Show Part 2 on Apr 20, 2009 in Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show courtyard gardens Joost Bakker
AQL's "Food for Thought"As I review my photos of the show gardens I have been trying to analyse what it is that I find appealing about the following two gardens. I am of the opinion that a garden should create a space in which one feels that the onl...
