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Great Gardens with Graham Ross (betterhomesgardens)

Posted by on November 9, 2011 in Garden

Graham has visited many gardens in his career, though these are a ones that done it to a tip of his list.

Pical star

This pleasant garden nearby Brisbane is deliberate one of a world’s best. The oasis spreads over 1000m² and facilities an lively rainforest jungle where some-more than 100 opposite palm class emanate a canopy for shade-loving understorey plants. Crafting a sensuous bliss from a decorated palette of outlandish plants has been a work of adore for gardener Dennis Hundscheidt, and his efforts have been good rewarded.


1. The garden opens adult to exhibit itself by a array of rooms, any with a possess H2O feature. To imitate this arrange of palatable landscape, arrange plants in low layered beds – here, cordylines, gingers, bromeliads and pinkish mussaenda massage shoulders.

2. Include bromeliads, like this distinguished guzmania, for both their leaflet and brightly phony blooms.

Contemporary style

Set within a deposit of a contemporary Melbourne house, and challenged by singular space, this garden employs a colour intrigue of white, grey and colourless for tough surfaces, overlaid with a emerald greens of multi-layered foliage. Flowers underline as anniversary highlights, though it’s a shapes, textures and shades of leaves that stir as we ramble through. The garden was combined by award-winning engineer Jim Fogarty, who drew on his favourite pattern facilities to greatfully a special customer – himself! For some-more information, revisit www.jimfogartydesign.com.au


1. Soften a monochrome tones of tough landscaping materials with astonishing splashes of colour. Old-world Bergenia cordifolia is a good groundcover for semi-shaded areas, with lolly-pink blooms in spring.
2. Seen from above, this black-stained joist carpet nestles in a sea of green, with a shade of bamboo providing remoteness from neighbours.
3. Consider supposed ‘cottage’ plants such as a iris – their greyish sword-like leaves secrete pristine complicated style
4. See your garden from a new perspective. Instead of installing a predicted patch of lawn, a resolution here was to pattern a lifted joist deck, floating in a vast bed filled with engaging leaflet and flowers. The result? A mow-free front yard!
5. Use clematis where we wish a light, deciduous traveller with stately open flowers in a jewel-box of colours.

6. Try this thought for a little textural seductiveness – a block of bluestone cobbles breaks adult a surrounding well-spoken surfaces and acts like a underline carpet for this little courtyard.

Enchanting classic

Wandering a deposit of Red Cow Farm is like entering another time. A stately array of garden rooms, it’s arguably a best re-creation of a classical European garden anywhere in Australia. In a Monastery Garden, clipped ritual complements flowery abundance, while other ‘rooms’ showcase idealised views of furious nature. The deposit horde a collection of 800 roses as good as many singular shrubs, perennials and each English tree we could wish for. Extraordinarily, creators Wayne Morrissey and Ali Mentesh finished all a work themselves.


1. Don’t disremember quirky salvage-yard equipment – like statues! This pacific saint stands among apricot foxtail lilies and purple alliums.
2. Link buxus topiary cones with block hedges of a same species.
3. Experiment with confidant planting combos like burgundy pennisetum weed set beside bullion rudbeckia.
4. A crafty and charming approach to border a lake, or even a little pond, is with a distinguished detonate of sunshine-yellow from nautical iris.
5. The fantastic Monastery Garden is true out of a Middle Ages, with a network of cross-shaped paths. Borrow a normal planting intrigue where perennials, roses, spices and vegetables are churned in together.

6. North-facing walls are fanciful for roses. Here, climbers underline along a behind with plant roses in a foreground

Native nirvana

Imagine a unconditional plant-filled wilderness, only a stone’s chuck from a city’s CBD and we have a singular Kings Park in Perth. It’s all interjection to a prophesy of a city’s founders who, in 1872, gazetted 175 hectares for a open park. Today, a deposit are widespread over 400 hectares and offer Western Australia’s flora in all a diversity. Interestingly, WA is home to roughly half of Australia’s 25,000 plant species, many of that are found nowhere else in a world.


1. West Australian secure daisies, a pitch of wildflower fields, are mass-sown via Kings Park to re-create a stately sweeping effect.
2. Fringed lilies (Thysanotus sp.) bear fantastic open blooms on 30cm stems above grassy foliage.
3. Many of Australia’s poetic fan flowers (Scaevola sp.) are local to WA. Grow them in well-drained soil, possibly in pots or as a groundcover.
4. Imitate inlet with this thought – plant massed kangaroo duke among worldly slabs of brush rock.
5. Try deposit planting for a stately cottage-like flower bed with a healthy feel. Sow a seeds (or plant seedlings) in prolonged curves, shown here with pinkish and white everlastings (Rhodanthe sp.).
6. A fanciful feat of Kings Park is a approach it facilities such a farrago of WA class – it saves we travelling a thousands of kilometres to see them all.




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