Melbourne Garden Show | Reds Landscaping and Design

The Melbourne International Flower Garden Show is a great place to develop your landscape garden design ideas. If you are not in Melbourne, see if you can get to one of the annual garden shows around the country or around the world. One of the biggest shows in the Southern Hemisphere is the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show at the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, just north of the Melbourne CBD. Here you can see the work of some of the best landscape designers in Melbourne. This five day annual event runs until late March, so if you missed it this year, we have brought you some photos. Depending on which climate zone you are designing a garden for, your plant selection may be different.

Melbourne International Flower Garden Show - Reds Landscaping and Design — *Melbourne International Flower Garden Show. Landscape Garden design idea. Combining a beautiful design with an edible garden.*

Melbourne Edible Gardens

This year’s show featured edible gardens, workshops with local industry experts, floral art displays, garden competitions, and landscape gardens. For landscaper designers, it is also a great opportunity to talk with exhibitors and suppliers of everything from garden tools to sculptures and garden accessories.

Melbourne Landscape garden path and pergola - Reds Landscaping and Design — *Melbourne Landscape garden path and pergola – “Living Garden ” by Emmaline Bowman’s (STEM Landscape Architecture and Design)*

The Welcome Landscape Garden

For the first time ever, this year’s show featured a welcome landscape garden. This garden was designed by last year’s Best in Show award winner, Phillip Withers, creative director of Phillip Withers Landscape Design. “Flourishing with a full spectrum of green hues, the biodiverse habitat is a place for visitors to relax and recline.”
One of the challenges for landscape designers is developing ideas for garden focal points. Once the focal point of a garden design is established, the rest of the garden design more or less falls into place. Shows like these are ideal for helping to explore ideas for garden design. Landscaping solutions from some of Australia’s best landscape garden designers are on display at one location.

Native grasses in garden beds with stainless steel edging - Reds Landscaping and Design — *Native grasses in garden beds with stainless steel edging. Garden sculpture in the background.*

Garden Shows – A great source of Landscape Design Ideas and the latest trends

Garden shows like the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Brisbane International Garden Show, and the recent Brisbane Garden and Plant Expo are favourites with hobby gardeners, professional landscapers, horticulture students, and members of the plant nursery industry.