Your Garden Questions Answered: Formal Gardens
If you like formal garden design and are perhaps thinking of building such a garden it is important to not only consider the common themes and materials of such gardens. The use of correct plants is essential to a great formal garden. Some of the ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Creeping Fig - Plant of the Week
Don showed how classy creeping figs can look when used in a formal garden design. The figs were trained to fill recesses in a masonry wall, so that they formed perfect green rectangular shapes. The fig rectangles provided a wonderful backdrop for ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Evan and Sonja's Garden
Melbourne landscaper, Evan Gaulke, enjoyed the challenge of designing his own garden on a small, steep corner block. Evan loves gardens that are fun, interesting and free flowing, rather than very formal gardens that are difficult to maintain. He ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Boxford Garden
Don visited Polly and Peter Park at their home in the Canberra suburb of Red Hill, and chatted to them about their amazing garden. The front garden is a formal garden of clipped hedges and a neat lawn. Beyond this facade lies something ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Michael Lupino
Dinner under the stars in a formal garden, a tea amid the roses, rustic breakfast in an Adirondack camp, a harvest luncheon . . . these are parties that celebrate the best that nature has to offer, paired with food and drink perfect for the ... [... more]
Random House |
Suzy / AUTHOR CATALOG
Dinner under the stars in a formal garden, a tea amid the roses, rustic breakfast in an Adirondack camp, a harvest luncheon . . . these are parties that celebrate the best that nature has to offer, paired with food and drink perfect for the ... [... more]
Random House |
Formal gardens
A formal design may be perfectly symmetrical and make much use of straight lines, circles and other geometrical shapes, or it may not, though there will always be a sense of careful balance. In a formal garden you will find immaculately trimmed ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
Native Plants for Formal Gardens
This week Dean wanted to make you think about how you look at native plants and how you use them in your garden. Dean is always getting comments about how people don't like natives in their garden because they think they are scrappy, messy and ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Plants to Suit Your Personality
Nigel reckons you can tell a lot about someone's personality by the style of their garden and the type of plants that have in it. For example those with a formal garden with lots of clipped hedges are going to be the neat, tidy and fastidious ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
