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| Aussie garden wins at Chelsea | |
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| Warren | Feb 15 2009, 12:29 PM Post #1 |
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Aussie garden wins at Chelsea By Jamie Duncan May 21, 2008 04:25am Article from: AAP AN Australian team's vision of suburban paradise has turned out a big winner at the world's most prestigious garden expo. A celebration of Western Australia designed by celebrity landscaper Jamie Durie, the garden has won a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show in London. Wes Fleming, a Melbourne horticulturist who has led an Australian assault on the show for the past five years, and now has three gold medals and two silver gilt prizes, is naturally elated. "I'm absolutely beside myself. I'm a bit of a mess," he said from London today. His team of 22 workers built the $800,000, 200 square metre celebration of the Kimberley landscape in 16 days. The garden, the first at Chelsea with all Australian native plants, features a dry stone wall of Kimberley sandstone, a fireplace and a large pond with an "infinity edge" that gives the illusion that the water disappears at the edge. All the materials were shipped from Melbourne. Up to 100 teams each year bid to build one of the 24 hand-picked gardens that feature at the show. "It really is a massive win just to build a garden here, but to come out with gold medals speaks volumes for the quality of the Australian horticultural industry," Mr Fleming said. "It is not a typical Australian backyard by any stretch of the imagination. "But it is an Australian garden because it's about entertaining and using your space outdoors, where your English gardens are more about how pretty they look." |
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